Seminar Series
Spring 2009/10
**Please note, the venue has moved back to the Harvard University Herbaria seminar room.**
All seminars are given in the Harvard University Herbaria Seminar Room at 12:00, noon.
| Jan. 26 | Michael Axtell (Penn State University) | Young and old small RNAs in land plants: Evolution, biogenesis, and functions |
| Feb. 2 | Bomblies Lab | Arabidopsis Evolutionary Genetics |
| Feb. 9 | Ken Karol (New York Botanical Garden) | Genes and genomes: what they reveal about green plant evolution |
| Feb. 16 | TBA | TBA |
| Feb. 23 | Angelica Cibrian-Jaramillo (MCZ/ American Museum of Natural History) | From Darwin to HomeDepot: the population genetics of a recently endangered cycad |
| Mar. 2 | Ned Friedman (Univ. of Colorado at Boulder) | A Darwinian look at Darwin’s evolutionist ancestors |
| Mar. 9 | Faye Rosin (Kramer Lab/ OEB Dept.) | Transcriptome analysis of Aquilegia floral organs |
| Jen Winther (Kramer Lab/ OEB Dept. & Arnold Arboretum) | Gymnosperm Type II MADS-box Genes | |
| Mar. 16 | SPRING BREAK | |
| Mar. 23 | Wendy Clement (Yale University) | TBA |
| Mar. 30 | Barbara Ambrose (New York Botanical Garden) | Evolution and development in lycophytes and ferns |
| Apr. 6 | Quentin Cronk (Univ. of British Columbia) | How a tree genome adapts to latitude: genomic architecture of local adaptation in a temperate tree based on large-scale transcriptome resequencing |
| Apr. 13 | Adrian Rocha (Marine Biological Laboratory) | Consequences of an altered fire regime on climate and carbon storage in arctic tundra |
| Apr. 20 | Matt Klooster (Davis Lab/ OEB) | TBA |
| Apr. 27 | Samuel Hazen (UMass Amherst) | Systems biology of plant biofuel attributes |
| May 4 | Elizabeth Zacharias (HUH) | TBA |