Herbaria Seminar Series

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

David Ackerly Dean, Rausser College of Natural Resources University of California, Berkeley Title: Plant diversity, climate change, and conservation: The view from California

Victoria L. Sork Distinguished Professor, Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Director, UCLA Mathias Botanical Garden and Herbarium University of California, Los Angeles Title: 21st Century common garden study of oaks demonstrate evolutionary and...