Seminar Series

Fall 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.



**Special Seminar Sept. 1st**
Sept. 1 Frank Bungartz (Arizona State Univ.) Lichens on the Galapagos - an overview on occasion of Darwin's 200th birthday
Oct. 6 Egbert Leigh (Smithsonian Tropical Research Inst.) Role of Theory in Tropical Forest Ecology: What Do We Want to Know?
Oct. 13 Anne-Gaelle Rolland (Univ. of Ottawa) Vein pattern formation in growing leaves
Oct. 20 Kerry Knudsen (UC Riverside) Lichens of the Santa Monica Mountains: Hasse and the Farlow
Oct. 27 James Macklin (HUH) Informatics projects at the HUH
Nov. 3 Juan Pablo Giraldo (Holbrook Lab/ OEB) How Evergreen Plants Control Leaf Longevity: The role of leaf vascular transport in regulating leaf senescence
Nicola Carraro (Rowland Institute) Expression patterns of auxin transport proteins in Poplar
Nov. 17 Annette Baudisch (Duke Univ.) TBA
Nov. 24 Selena Ahmed (New York Botanical Garden) Biocultural Diversity of Forest Tea Systems in Yunnan, China
Dec. 1 Eric Dechaine (Western Washington Univ.) Evolutionary responses of tundra vegetation to climatic variability of the Quaternary