Herbaria Seminar Series

Dr. Jenifer de Carvalho Lopes Dantas HUH Research Fellow Harvard University Title: Diversity of the Brazilian Flora and the program REFLORA Abstract: Brazil has 50,284 species of plants, including native, naturalized and cultivated ones, making Brazil the...

Dr. Marcos Egea Gutierrez-Cortines Director of the Institute of Plant Biotechnology Technical University of Cartagena Title: Genetic and environmental “influencers” coordinating late flower development (Defining flower hotness)

Pablo Moroni Postdoctoral Fellow Instituto de Botánica Darwinion Title: Stirring up a hornet’s nest: Taxonomic revision of Cryptantha Lehm. ex G.Don, an intriguing genus from the Boraginaceae s. str. Abstract: Boraginaceae s. str. are widely distributed...

Dr. Alexandra Z. Worden Professor of Ocean EcoSystems Biology, GEOMAR Visiting Scholar in Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University Title: A look into the world's tiniest plants and their importance in the ocean

Dr. Wayne M Jurick II Lead Scientist and Research Plant Pathologist USDA Agricultural Research Service, Food Quality Laboratory Title: An intriguing tale of a non-host specific mycotoxin: Plant cell death, ecological impacts, active efflux and leveraging...

Ryan Nett Assistant Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology Harvard University Title: Understanding and harnessing the diversity of plant metabolism Watch Live on YouTube

Dr. Margaret Frank Assistant Professor School of Integrative Plant Science Cornell University Title: Breaking and building bridges: Discovering the biology underlying graft compatibility Abstract: Grafting is a widely-used technique that involves...

Dr. Dawson M. White National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Biology Negaunee Integrative Research Center, The Field Museum, Chicago, IL, USA Associate, Harvard University Herbaria, Cambridge, MA, USA Title: Collections-based...

Dr. Michael Bradshaw HUH Research Fellow Harvard University Title: Powdery mildews: The world’s best plant taxonomists Abstract: Molecular clocks placed the evolution of powdery mildews, ~40 million years after the first appearance of angiosperms in the...

Natalia Pabó n-Mora Associate Professor, University of Antioquia Visiting Fulbright Fellow, Harvard University Title: Dissecting holoparasitic plants: evo-devo case studies in Cucurbitales and Piperales Abstract: Plant-plant parasitism comes with drastic...