
Ph.D. • 2021 • Ackerfield & Bruederle Lab • Denver Botanic Gardens
Department of Integrative Biology
Audrey Spencer is a fourth-year Ph.D. candidate researching the systematics and biogeography of Physocarpus (ninebark), helping elucidate the origins of the flora of the Southern Rockies. She uses genomic tools to tell the biogeographic story of plants with disjunct distributions.