Botany Lunch

Botany Lunch is currently a hybrid model, in person and online via Zoom. Invitations are sent weekly via the Botany Lunch Google Group. Sign yourself up using Berkeley bConnected (https://bconnected.berkeley.edu/), or if you are off campus contact Brent Mishler, BMishler@berkeley.edu.

Botany Lunch meets during the academic year on Fridays at noon in the herbaria seminar room, 1002 Valley Life Sciences Building (entrance in small corridor by north building entrance on ground floor).

We are looking for speakers for the fall 2025 session. Please fill out this Google form (https://forms.gle/a7Egpj5SsbGKGvqcA) if you have a recommendation.

ALL WELCOME!!

Spring 2025 schedule
Click here to view schedules from previous sessions.

Jan. 17  : Barbara Ertter, Research Associate, Snake River Plains Herbarium, Boise State University; and Curator of Western North American Flora, University and Jepson Herbaria, University of California, Berkeley
     The West’s Vanishing Wildflowers

Jan. 24  Kristy Mualim, PhD Student, Moi Lab (IB), University of California, Berkeley.
     Genetic diversity loss in the Anthropocene

Jan. 31  James Shevock, Botany Research Associate & Fellow, California Academy of Sciences.
     NSF Biodiversity Inventories: Plant and Lichen Collecting in the Southern Philippines

Feb. 7  Tommy Jenkinson, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Biological Sciences, California State University, East Bay.
     Global Change and the Evolutionary Ecology of Amphibian Chytrid Fungus

Feb. 14  James T. Costa, Executive Director & Professor, Highlands Biological Station of Western Carolina University.
     Alice Eastwood, Gertrude Jekyll, and Horticultural History: The Wallace Connection [special Darwin Day celebration talk].

Feb. 21  L. Francisco Henao-Diaz, new Postdoctoral Scholar, University and Jepson Herbaria, University of California, Berkeley.
     Fruitful Journeys: Macroevolution, Diversification, and Eco-Evolutionary Tales from the Tropics to the Himalayas

Feb. 28  TBA....
     

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