Past Events

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HUH Seminar Series - Cathie Aime
September 15, 2026
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12:00PM - 1:00PM EDT
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HUH Seminar Room 125, 22 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA
In Person
Cathie Aime Professor of Botany & Plant Pathology Purdue University Title: The coffee leaf rust fungus: unraveling the origins and causes of a notorious agricultural pathogen Abstract: Coffee is the world’s single most traded agricultural commodity, the...

HUH Seminar Series - C. Mei-An Tsu
April 8, 2026
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12:00PM - 1:00PM EDT
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HUH Seminar Room 125, 22 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA
Hybrid
C. Mei-An Tsu Conservator, Ware Collection of Blaschka Glass Models of Plants Harvard University Title: Art or Science? Conserving the Blaschka Glass Flowers at Harvard Abstract: C. Mei-An Tsu, Conservator of the Ware Collection, reflects on her inaugural...

HUH Seminar Series - Julia Van Etten
March 4, 2026
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12:00PM - 1:00PM EST
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HUH Seminar Room 125, 22 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA
Hybrid
Julia Van Etten NSF PRFB Fellow, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute Incoming Assistant Professor, University of Maryland - College Park Title: The ecology of horizontal processes: Lessons learned from community gene transfer, alignment-free phylogenomics...

HUH Seminar Series - Rachel Swenie
February 25, 2026
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12:00PM - 1:00PM EST
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HUH Seminar Room 125, 22 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA
Hybrid
Rachel Swenie Farlow Fellow Harvard University Title: From Sequences to Species: Taxonomy and Genetic Diversity of North American Thelephora Abstract: The fungal genus Thelephora is an enigmatic lineage of ectomycorrhizal fungi that form mushrooms or...

HUH Special Seminar - Madeline Schill
February 10, 2026
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12:00PM - 1:00PM EST
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HUH Seminar Room 125, 22 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA
In Person
Madeline Schill Collections Fellow Arnold Arboretum, Harvard University Title: The North-America China Plant Exploration Consortium (NACPEC) 2025 Expedition and Archival Project Abstract: Since 1991, the North-America China Plant Exploration Consortium...

HUH Seminar Series - Isaac Eckert
February 4, 2026
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12:00PM - 1:00PM EST
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Zoom: https://tinyurl.com/wmr543d5
Virtual
Isaac Eckert PhD Candidate McGill University Title: The growing role for herbaria in biodiversity research Abstract: Natural history collections like herbaria were once foundational to our knowledge of the natural world. Now however, as we develop and...

HUH Seminar Series - Mason Heberling
December 12, 2025
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12:00PM - 1:00PM EST
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HUH Seminar Room 125, 22 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA
Hybrid
Dr. Mason Heberling Associate Curator of Botany Carnegie Museum of Natural History Title: Making the most of herbaria Abstract: As dead plants glued to paper, herbarium specimens may not seem like much at first glance. But they are far more than meet the...

HUH Seminar Series - Michael Coe
November 14, 2025
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12:00PM - 1:00PM EST
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HUH Seminar Room 125, 22 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA
Hybrid
Dr. Michael Coe Assistant Professor Tarleton State University Title: Hypotheses-Driven Research in Ethnobiology & Ayahuasca Sustainability Abstract: This presentation explores theory-inspired and hypothesis-driven research in ethnobiology, applied...

HUH Seminar Series - Lova Marline
October 31, 2025
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12:00PM - 1:00PM EDT
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HUH Seminar Room 125, 22 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA
Hybrid
Dr. Lova Marline HUH Bartram Research Fellow Title: Current knowledge of the Bryophyte flora of Sub-Saharan Africa: Biodiversity insights, herbarium records, and ongoing research Abstract: Bryophytes are the least documented group of plants across Sub...

HUH Seminar Series - Michael Bradshaw
October 17, 2025
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12:00PM - 1:00PM EDT
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HUH Seminar Room 125, 22 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA
In Person
Dr. Michael Bradshaw Assistant Professor Center for Integrated Fungal Research Director of the NC State Mycological Herbarium Department of Entomology & Plant Pathology: NCSU Title: Herbaria in the Modern Age: Insights from Powdery Mildews and Managing a...

HUH Seminar - Jessie Wei-Hsuan Chen
June 12, 2025
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12:00PM - 1:00PM EDT
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HUH Seminar Room 125, 22 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA
In Person
Dr. Jessie Wei-Hsuan Chen Postdoctoral Researcher in Knowledge and Art Practices Huygens Institute of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) Title: Scaling Up: Botanical Models and Shared Visions of Microscopic Observations in Plant...

International Herbarium Spectral Digitization (IHerbSpec) Working Group
May 2, 2025
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8:45AM - 12:30PM EDT
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Harvard University Herbaria, Room 125, 22 Divinity Ave.
Hybrid
8:45 Jeannine Cavender-Bares, Harvard University Herbaria, USA Welcome. What is spectral biology? A vision and challenges for NextGen spectral scanning 9:05 Flavia Durgante, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany Spectral herbarium from INPA...
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