#  International Herbarium Spectral Digitization (IHerbSpec) Working Group 

 



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####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **May 2, 2025** 

 08:45AM - 12:30PM EDT 

####  pin\_drop Location 

 **Harvard University Herbaria, Room 125, 22 Divinity Ave.**  



 

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**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: equipment, methods and applications to species identification*

**9:20 Jose Eduardo Meireles**, University of Maine, USA  
*Impacts of herborization on spectra*

**9:35 Thomas Couvreur**, Institut de Recherche pour le Developpement (IRD), France  
*Evolution and conservation of tropical rain forests: global patterns, local actions*

**9:50 Pamela Soltis**, University of Florida, USA  
*Database considerations for spectral scanning*

**10:15** Break

**10:30 Aaron Lee**, University of Minnesota, USA  
*Macroevolution of spectra in Polygonaceae*

**10:45 Charles Davis**, Harvard University Herbaria, USA  
*The global metaherbarium; ethical use of herbarium specimens*

**11:05-12:00** Lightning Talks  
**Dawson White** (HUH, USA), **J. Antonio Guzmán Q.** (HUH, USA), **Samantha Bazan** (CIRAD, France), **Khalil Boughalmi** (Grenoble-Alps University & IRD, France), **Mike Hopkins** (Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia Amazonas, Brazil), **Natalie Iwanycki Ahlstrand** (Natural History Museum Denmark), **Olwen Grace** (Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, Scotland), **Étienne Léveillé-Bourret** (Université de Montréal, Canada), **Shan Kothari** (University of Alberta, Canada), **Barbara Neto-Bradley** (University of Cambridge, UK), **Matthew Austin** (MOBOT, USA)

**12:00-12:20** Panel Discussion following lightning talks

*Sponsored by:*  
*Harvard University Herbaria*  
*National Science Foundation*  
*ASCEND Biology Integration Institute, iDigBio*  
*DBI-2021898, DBI-2027654, DBI-1930007*



 

 



 

 

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