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By Dr Sandra Knapp, Natural History Museum
Dr Knapp is the world expert in the taxonomy of the nightshade family, Solanaceae, and has spent much time in the field in Central and South America collecting plants. She started at the Natural History Museum in 1992 and manages the international project Flora Mesoamericana - an inventory of the approximately 18,000 species of plants of southern Mexico and the isthmus of Central America.
She has extensive experience with media broadcasts including: BBC Radio 4 – Natural Histories- The Big Story (23/12/2015-25/12/2015), Natural History Heroes, The Life Scientific: Discussion of Sandy Knapp's scientific career with Jim Al-Khalili, and was part of the panel for The Infinite Monkey Cage, Should we Pander to Pandas? - Comedy programme with Brian Cox and Robin Ince.
The Holden Botany Lecture will be held at 6 pm on the 2nd May 2017 in A33 Food Science Building on The Sutton Bonington Campus of the University of Nottingham.
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