Jana Vamosi is a biodiversity scientist involved in the conservation of Canada's plant species. Her lab is leading initiatives to pinpoint hotspots of threatened species in Canada and determine how climate change accelerates extinction risk. Her research programme emerged from broad interests in the macroevolution and community ecology of plants, and often brings evolutionary perspectives to questions pertaining to the study of plant–insect interactions and the phylogenetic distribution of flowering plants at risk of extinction in Canada.