The greenhouse is a 9,625 square foot hidden gem located on the roof of the NWQ Building Complex. The state-of-the-art facility maximizes research capability and provides an open, flexible environment for botanical instruction, supporting both undergraduate and graduate education and cutting-edge NSF funded research.
The facility is divided into 3 wings, with 18 separate rooms and includes an expanded head house utilized as both a potting area and a classroom, modern wet lab space, a vibration lab, 4 instructional houses, 1 propagation house, 6 research houses, a cold room, an office and student lounge, and greenhouse support spaces, with an additional 1,200 square feet of outdoor planting beds available for research and instruction.
The diverse instructional plant collection comprises approximately 672 species representing over 100 plant families, showcasing a range of plant biodiversity, evolution and adaptation, with specimens representing lower vascular plant lineages, to cycads, to a strong representation of flowering plants. The greenhouse maintains a collection of native plants which is supplemented by 270 tree and shrub species planted throughout the campus. An 11-acre conservancy area on campus is also available for study. Lapham Hall houses 17 plant growth, insect, environmental or cold chambers for research and instructional use.
For questions or to visit, please contact Greenhouse Manager Paul Engevold at 414-229-4248, or via email (preferred) at engevold@uwm.edu.
The Biological Sciences Greenhouse facility houses both long-term research, supporting the work of faculty members, and short-term projects for undergraduate and graduate student research.
Recent research publications include:
See page for full publication list. Happy to provide PDF copies of publications upon request.
Sergi CM & Rodríguez RL. 2025. A test for basic animal consciousness through distraction by inward-directed attention, and a case study with black widow spiders. Behaviour 162(3-4), 259-276.
Christensen AJ, Latch EK, Carstensen M, Seaborn T (2026) . G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics, 16(4), jkag007.
Augusto-Alves, G., Feagles, O. S., Toledo, L. F., & Höbel, G. (2025). Visual cues do not function in a multimodal signalling context for mate attraction in eastern gray treefrogs. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 144(4), blae060.
Navarro D, Latch EK, Tallon AK, Ott鈥怌onn CN, DeYoung RW, Walsh DP, Euclide PT, RG C, Larson WA, Seetharam AS, Severin AJ (2026) . Molecular Ecology Resources, 26(1), e70085.
Chesser RT, Isler ML, Santana A, Latch EK, Stryjewski KF, Reed J, Naka LN, Fleischer RC, Aleixo A (2025) (Aves: Passeriformes: Thamnophilidae: Myrmotherula and Isleria). Zootaxa, 5722(1),1-44.
Rodríguez RL, Wood TK, Stearns FW, Snyder RL, Tilmon KJ, Cast M, Hunt RE & Cocroft RB. 2025. The means of signal divergence early in a host shift. The American Naturalist 206(2), 130-149.
Flynn, K.J., Atkinson, A., Beardall, J., Berges, J.A., Boersma, M., Brunet, C., Calbet, A., Caron, D.A., Dam, H.G., Glibert, P.M., Hansen, P.J., Jin, P., Lønborg, C., Mayor, D.J., Menden-Deuer, S., Mock, T., Mulholland, M.R., Needham, D.M., Polimene, L., Poulton, A.J., Robinson, C., Rokitta, S.D., Rost, B., Saiz, E., Scanlan, D.J., Schmidt, K., Sherr, E., Stoecker, D.K., Svensen, C., Thiele, S., Thingstad, T.F., Våge, S., 2025. . Nature Ecology & Evolution 9: 1562–1570. doi.org/10.1038/s41559-025-02788-3
Mucci N, González S, Gupta SK, Kumar A, Latch EK (2025) . Pages 811-840 in Deer of the World: Ecology, Conservation and Management (eds Melletti M, Focardi S). Cham: Springer Nature.
RG C, Tallon A, Latch EK (2025) . Prion, 19(1), 1-6.
Wachala, S.N., Janssen, J., Young, E.B., Berges, J.A., 2025. . Journal of Great Lakes Research 51: 102462. doi.org/10.1016/j.jglr.2024.102462.
Trevathan-Tackett, S.M., Kepfer-Rojas, S., Malerba, M., Macreadie, P.I., Djukic, I., Zhao, J., Young, E.B., York, P.H., Yeh, S.-C., Xiong, Y., Winters, G., Whitlock, D., Weaver, C.A., Watson, A., Visby, I., Tylkowski, J., Trethowan, A., Tiegs, S., Taylor, B., Szpikowski, J., Szpikowska, G., Strickland, V.L., Stivrins, N., Sousa, A.I., Sinutok, S., Scheffel, W.A., Santos, R., Sanderman, J., Sánchez-Carrillo, S., Sanchez-Cabeza, J.-A., Rymer, K.G., Ruiz-Fernandez, A.C., Robroek, B.J.M., Roberts, T., Ricart, A.M., Reynolds, L.K., Rachlewicz, G., Prathep, A., Pinsonneault, A.J., Pendall, E., Payne, R., Ozola, I., Onufrock, C., Ola, A., Oberbauer, S.F., Numbere, A.O., Novak, A.B., Norkko, J., Norkko, A., Mozdzer, T.J., Morgan, P., Montemayor, D.I., Martin, C.W., Malone, S.L., Major, M., Majewski, M., Lundquist, C.J., Lovelock, C.E., Liu, S., Lin, H.-J., Lillebo, A., Li, J., Kominoski, J.S., Khuroo, A.A., Kelleway, J.J., Jinks, K.I., Jerónimo, D., Janousek, C., Jackson, E.L., Iribarne, O., Hanley, T., Hamid, M., Gupta, A., Guariento, R.D., Grudzinska, I., da Rocha Gripp, A., González Sagrario, M.A., Garrison, L.M., Gagnon, K., Gacia, E., Fusi, M., Farrington, L., Farmer, J., de Assis Esteves, F., Escapa, M., Doma艅ska, M., Dias, A.T.C., de los Santos, C.B., Daffonchio, D., Czyryca, P.M., Connolly, R.M., Cobb, A., Chudzi艅ska, M., Christiaen, B., Chifflard, P., Castelar, S., Carneiro, L.S., Cardoso-Mohedano, J.G., Camden, M., Caliman, A., Bulmer, R.H., Bowen, J., Boström, C., Bernal, S., Berges, J.A., Benavides, J.C., Barry, S.C., Alatalo, J.M., Al-Haj, A.N., Adame, M.F., 2024. . Environmental Science & Technology 58, 21589-21603. doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.4c02116.
Feagles, O. S., & Höbel, G. (2024). Personality affects female mate choice: frogs displaying more consistent bold behaviors are choosier. Behavioral Ecology, 35(1), arad101.
Stratman, K., & Höbel, G. (2024). Within-population variation in preference functions reveals substantial among-female disagreement in mate assessment. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 37(11), 1278-1287.
Yi X, Latch EK, Lim BK, Koroiva R, Da Rocha PA, Feijó A (2024) . Mammalian Biology, 104(4), 417-430.
Hauser S, Robinson SM, Latch E (2024) . Endangered Species Research, 53, 327-340.
Townley RA, Stacy KS, Cheraghi F, de la Cova CC. The Raf/LIN-45 C-terminal distal tail segment negatively regulates signaling in Caenorhabditis elegans. Genetics. 2024. 228(3):iyae152.
Rodriguez Torres CS, Wicker NB, Puccini de Castro V, Stefinko M, Bennett DC, Bernhardt B, Garcia Montes de Oca M, Jallow S, Flitcroft K, Palalay JS, Payán Parra OA, Stern YE, Koelle M, Voisine Cindy, Woods IG, Lo T, Stern MJ, de la Cova CC. The Caenorhabditis elegans protein SOC-3 permits an alternative mode of signal transduction by the EGL-15 FGF receptor. Developmental Biology. 2024. 516:183-195. .
Chowdhury TA, Luy DA, Farache D, Lee ASY, Quinn CC (2024). Ortholog of autism candidate gene RBM27 regulates mitoribosomal assembly factor MALS-1 to protect against mitochondrial dysfunction and axon degeneration during neurodevelopment. PLoS Biology 22(10): e3002876.
Kodra AL, Sharma Singh A, de la Cova C, Ziosi M, Johnston LA*. The Drosophila TNF Eiger promotes Myc super-competition independent of canonical JNK signaling. Genetics. 2024. iyae107. .
Drozd CJ, Chowdhury TC, Quinn CC. (2024) UNC-16 interacts with LRK-1 and WDFY-3 to regulate the termination of axon growth. Genetics, iyae053.
Welmillage SU, James EK, Tak N, Shedge S, Huang L, Muszy艅ski A, Azadi P, Gyaneshwar P.0.A rhamnose-rich O-antigen of Paraburkholderia phymatum MP20 is required for symbiosis with Mimosa pudica. J Bacteriol0:e00422-24.https://doi.org/10.1128/jb.00422-24
Desjonquères C, Speck B, Seidita S, Cirino LA, Escalante I, Sergi C, Maliszewski J, Wiese C, Höbel G, Bailey NW & Rodríguez RL. 2023. Social plasticity enhances signal-preference codivergence. The American Naturalist 202(6), 818-829.
Townley R, Deniaud A, Stacy KS, Rodriguez Torres CS, Cheraghi F, Wicker NB, de la Cova CC. The E3/E4 ubiquitin ligase UFD-2 suppresses normal and oncogenic signaling mediated by a Raf ortholog in Caenorhabditis elegans. Sci Signal. 2023. 16(800):eabq4355. .
Ketelboeter, L.M., Gordon, A., Welmillage, S.U. , Sreevidya, V. S., Paliy O., Gyaneshwar P. Transcriptomic and physiological responses of Rhizobium sp. IRBG74 to Sesbania cannabina and rice (Oryza sativa L) rhizosphere. Plant Soil 483, 515–532 (2023)
Ketelboeter LM, Mitra S, Gyaneshwar P. A thiamine transporter is required for biofilm formation by Rhizobium sp. IRBG74. FEMS Microbiol Lett. 2023 Jan 17;370:fnad046. doi: 10.1093/femsle/fnad046. PMID: 37253601.
Dues DJ, Nguyen APT, Becker K, Ma J and Moore DJ. "." NPJ Parkinson's Disease, Aug 29;9(1):125, 2023.
de la Cova CC. The Highs and Lows of FBXW7: New Insights into Substrate Affinity in Disease and Development. Cells. 2023. 12(17):2141. .
Drozd CJ, Quinn CC (2023) UNC-116 and UNC-16 function with the NEKL-3 kinase to promote axon targeting.Development, 150(18): dev201654.
Shelton WR, Mitchell RJ, Christopher DA, Jack LP and Karron JD. 2023. Among鈥�individual variation in flowering phenology affects flowering synchrony and mating opportunity. American Journal of Botany
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Hinow, Peter, Strickler, J. R., and Yen, Jeannette. “Olfaction in a viscous environment: The "color" of sexual smells in Temora longicornis” The Science of Nature (Naturwissenschaften)().
Hutz, Reinhold J.“Familiar and novel reproductive endocrine disruptors: xenoestrogens, dioxins and nanoparticles” Current Trends in Endocrinology().
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Berges, John A., Young, Erica B., Thamatrakoln, Kimberlee, and Taylor, Alison R.(2022).
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Dey, Madhusudan, and Uppala, Jagadeesh K.“Pull-down of Biotinylated RNA and Associated Proteins” Bio-Protocol(2022).
Höbel G & Rodríguez RL. 2022. Positive-to-negative behavioural responses suggest hedonic evaluation in treefrog mate choice. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 289(1967).
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Feagles, O., & Höbel, G. (2022). Mate preferences and choosiness are distinct components of mate choice in eastern gray treefrogs (Hyla versicolor). The American Naturalist, 200(4), 506-517.
Fernández B, Chittoor-Vinod V, Kluss J, Kelly K, Bryant N, Nguyen APT, Bukhari S, Smith N, Ordóñez A, Fdez E, Chartier-Harlin M, Wilson M, Montine T., Moore DJ, West AB, Cookson M, Nichols J and Hilfiker S. "." Journal of Parkinson's Disease, May 20, 2022.
Fischer NC, Friedman V, Martinez-Reyes MA, Hao H, Chowdhury TA, Starr DA, Quinn CC (2022) The ANC-1(Nesprin-1/2) organelle-anchoring protein functions through mitochondria to polarize axon growth in response to SLT-1.PLoS Genetics, 18(11): e1010521.