Dr. Pamela S. Soltis is a Distinguished Professor and Curator in the Florida Museum of Natural History at the University of Florida. Prior to moving to Florida in 2000, she was Professor of Botany at Washington State University. She received her Ph.D. in 1986. Research interests include exploration of plant diversity, including reconstructing the tree of life; genome duplication (polyploidy); conservation. She has over 400 published papers and eight books. She served as president of the Society of Systematic Biologists (2004-07) and of the Botanical Society of America (2006-09). She was named a Distinguished Professor at the University of Florida in 2007. She has received the Centennial Award and the Distinguished Fellow Award from the Botanical Society of America. With Doug Soltis, she received the Dahlgren International Prize in Botany (2002), the Asa Gray Award in Plant Systematics (2006), and the Darwin-Wallace Medal from the Linnean Society of London (2016). With coauthors D. Soltis, P. Endress, and M. Chase, she received the Stebbins Medal in 2006 (for Phylogeny and Evolution of Angiosperms). She was elected to the US National Academy of Sciences in 2016.

• 1. Angiosperm floral evolution: morphological developmental frameworkPeter K. Endress2. Recent developments regarding the evolutionary origin of flowersMichael W. Frohlich3. Duplication, Diversification and Comparative Genetics of Angiosperm MADS Box GenesVivian F. Irish4. Beyond the ABC Model: Regulation of Floral Homeotic GenesLaura M. Zahn, Baomin Feng and Hong Ma5. Missing links: DNA-binding and target gene specificity of floral homeotic proteinsRainer Melzer, Kerstin Kaufmann and Günter Theißen6. Genetics of floral development in PetuniaAnneke Rijpkema, Tom Gerats and Michiel Vandenbussche7. Flower development: The Antirrhinum perspectiveBrendan Davies, Maria Cartolano and Zsuzsanna Schwarz-Sommer8. Floral developmental genetics of Gerbera (Asteraceae)Teemu H. Teeri, Mika Kotilainen, Anne Uimari, Satu Ruokolainen, Yan Peng Ng, Ursula Malm, Eija Pöllänen, Suvi Broholm, Roosa Laitinen, Paula Elomaa and Victor A. Albert9. Gene duplication and floral developmental genetics of basal eudicotsElena M. Kramer and Elizabeth A. Zimmer10. Genetics of grass flower developmentClinton J. Whipple and Robert J. Schmidt11. Developmental Gene Evolution and the Origin of Grass Inflorescence DiversitySimon T. Malcomber, Jill C. Preston, Renata Reinheimer, Jessie Kossuth and Elizabeth A. Kellogg12. Expression of Floral Regulators in Basal Angiosperms and the Origin and Evolution of ABC FunctionPamela S. Soltis, Douglas E. Soltis, Sangtae Kim, Andre Chanderbali, and Matyas Buzgo13. The molecular evolutionary ecology of plant development: Flowering time in Arabidopsis thalianaKathleen Engelmann and Michael Purugganan14. A Genomics Approach To The Study Of Ancient Polyploidy and Floral Developmental GeneticsJames H. Leebens-Mack, Kerr Wall, Jill Duarte, Zhengui Zheng, David Oppenheimer and Claude dePamphilis