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Lisa M. Campbell is an American botanist who specializes in Systematics and the anatomy of Xyridaceae. She has received significant grant funding from the National Science Foundation for her work related to natural history collection management and the development of the DNA bank at the New York Botanical Garden.

Education
Campbell received a B.A. in Biology with a minor in Botany from the University of Montana, Missoula in 1985. In 1992 she earned her M.A. in Botany from the University of Montana, Missoula with the thesis "Biosystematics of "Phlox kelseyi" (Polemoniaceae)". In 2004 she received both a M.Phil. and Ph.D. in Biology from the The City University of New York, New York. Her dissertation "Anatomy and systematics of Xyridaceae, with special reference to "Aratitiyopea" steyerm. & P.E. Berry." was published the same year.

Career
After her association as a graduate student, Campbell held a position with the New York Botanical Garden working as Administrative Curator II in the Plant Research Laboratory from 2009 until 2017. Here she managed various projects including grant projects "Natural History Collections: Developing Ericaceae Research Resources through Collections Enhancement and Data Integration" and "A DNA Bank Catalog for The New York Botanical Garden", both funded by the National Science Foundation.

In addition to her work on various grant projects, Campbell contributed treatments of Xyridaceae for the "New Manual of Vascular Plants of Northeastern United States and Adjacent Canada" with Dr. Robert Naczi, a revision and update to the classic "Gleason and Cronquist" text by Harry Gleason and Arthur Cronquist. She was also an editor of the Xyridaceae treatment for the Flora of India project with Peter Raven at the Missouri Botanical Garden.

In addition to these projects, Campbell served as a Council Member for the Torrey Botanical Society from 2015 until 2017 and has been a Managing Editor of the Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society from 2014 until the present day. She is on the Editorial Board for Harvard Papers in Botany and an Associate Editor for Brittonia. In addition, she is an International Representative for The DNA Bank Network and ESF DNA and Tissue Bank Network.

Research Websites

 * Campbell, L. M., J. L. Luteyn, P. Pedraza-Peñalosa & M. Tulig. 2016. Ericaceae. http://sycamore.nybg.org/science/projects/ericaceae/
 * Campbell, L. M., M. G. L. Wanderley & G. Oliveira. 2009. Xyridaceae. Neotropikey: Interactive key to the flowering plants of the Neotropics. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. http://www.kew.org/science/tropamerica/neotropikey.htm
 * Campbell, L. M. 2008–onward. The Xyridaceae pages—an electronic monograph. http://sweetgum.nybg.org/xyridaceae/ The New York Botanical Garden, Bronx, New York.