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