Max H. Hommersand
Contact Information
Office: 407 Coker HallEmail: hommersand[at]bio.unc.edu
Office Phone: (919) 962-6938
Hommersand Lab Website
Research Description
Max Hommersand’s area of research is the morphology, systematics and biography of the marine algae, with emphasis on the red algae. He has a world-wide collection of over thirty thousand specimens of marine algae for use in developmental studies. Research facilities include a Zeiss photomicroscope for light microscopy, three large culture rooms for growing algae, and other facilities for investigating the evolutionary biology and phylogeny of the marine algae.