| Sept. 28 |
Barry Tomlinson (OEB) |
Reaction fibers (or fibres!) in woody plants - the evolutionary significance of Gnetum |
| Oct. 5 |
Fabian Michelangeli (NYBG) |
Ant-plant relationships in Neotropical Melastomataceae: combining phylogenetic, anatomical and ecological data |
| Oct. 12 |
David Lee (Florida International Univ./Harvard Forest) |
Why do leaves turn red in the autumn? |
| Oct. 19 |
Egbert Leigh (Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute) |
How understanding speciation can help us understand what maintains the diversity of tropical trees |
| Oct. 26 |
Dale Karlson (Univ. of West Virginia) |
Molecular and Physiological Aspects of Cold Acclimation in Red-Osier Dogwood |
| Nov. 2 |
Tanya Livshultz (Mercer Fellow, HUH) |
Systematics of Apocynaceae subfamily Apocynoideae and the APSA clade |
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Nina Theis (Mercer Fellow, HUH) |
Targeting pollinators and evading herbivores: Floral scent in two species of thistle |
| Nov. 9 |
David King (Center for Tropical Forest Science) |
Forest dynamics plots in Malaysia |
| Nov. 16 |
Tom Brutnell (Cornell Univ.) |
Phytochrome photoreceptors of maize: targets of selection, targets for manipulation |
| Nov. 23 |
Amy Zanne (Tufts Univ.) |
Tree vascular constraints: A survey from Arnold Arboretum |
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Linda and Jonathan Haar (Boston Planning Institute) |
Explaining biodiversity to the public: The Boston Darwin Project |
| Nov. 30 |
Charles Canham (Inst. of Ecosystem Studies) |
Neighborhood competition along environmental gradients: fundamental versus realized niches of northeastern tree species |
| Dec. 7 |
S. P. Dinesh-Kumar (Yale Univ.) |
Emerging perspectives on plant innate immune response to viruses |
| Dec. 16 |
Rebecca Zufall (Smith College) |
Evolution of innovation: case studies from plants and protists |
