Seminar Series
Fall 2008/09
All seminars are gven in the Harvard University Herbaria Seminar Room at 12:00, noon.
| Sept. 16 | Peter Pollard (Griffith University) | Closing the Global Carbon Cycle: Linking Terrestrial Plant Production with Aquatic Microbial Production of Carbon Dioxide |
| Sept. 23 | Luis Mendonça de Carvalho (Beja Polytechnic Institute, Portugal) | The World on Display - New Challenges for the Economic Botany Collections |
| Oct. 7 | Dorothy Shippen (Texas A&M) | Beginning to understand the ends: ÊDuplication and diversification of key components of the Arabidopsis telomerase enzyme |
| Oct. 14 | Greg Douhan (UC Riverside) | Population biology of the ubiquitous ectomycorrhizal fungus Cenococcum geophilum: species complex or complex species? |
| Oct. 21 | Ben Wolfe (Pringle Lab/OEB) | Evolution of symbiosis in the fungal genus Amanita |
| Julie Shapiro (Arnold Arboretum) | SHIP: Woody Plant Seeds Digitized | |
| Oct. 28 | Noah Whiteman (Pierce Lab/OEB) | Mining the plant-insect interface: Developing a genetic model herbivore of Arabidopsis |
| Nov. 4 | Patrick Sweeney (Yale, Peabody Museum) | Phylogeny and Floral Development in Garcinia (Clusiaceae) |
| Nov. 11 | Matt Smith (Farlow Fellow/Pfister Lab) | Boletus rubropunctus forms tuberculate ectomycorrhizae and sclerotia with Quercus spp. over a wide geographic range |
| Nov. 18 | Matt Klooster (Mercer Fellow/Davis Lab) | Sex, deceit, and carbon laundering: Ecological insights into the provocative lives of myco-heterotrophic plants in the Monotropoideae (Ericaceae) |
| Nov. 25 | Levi Yaffeto (Farlow Fellow/Dumais Lab) | Biomechanics of invasive growth by Armillaria rhizomorphs |
| Dec. 2 | Paul Davison (University of Northern Alabama) | Phytotelmata of Temperate Tree Trunks. Microwildernesses in Temporary Waters |
| Dec. 9 | Jeffrey Townsend (Yale University) | Phylogenetic informativeness |
| Dec. 16 | Ethan Temeles (Amherst College) | Sexual dimorphism and floral polymorphism across an island archipelago: hummingbirds and heliconias of the Lesser Antilles |