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Botany Lunch

         
    Botany Lunch meets Fridays at noon during the academic year in the Herbarium Break Room (enter via 1001 Valley Life Sciences Building)
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Fall 2007 schedule

Aug. 31:   Kathryn Davis (Assistant Professor, San Jose State University)

Out of Humboldt’s Shadow: The Botanical Adventures of Ynes Mexia

 

Sept. 7:   Nhu Nguyen (Grad student, Specht Lab, PMB)

California onions: perspectives in molecular phylogeny and traditional taxonomy

 

Sept. 14:   Paul Wilson (Professor, Cal State Northridge; Sabbatical Visitor, UC/JEPS)

Pollination syndromes in Penstemons

 

Sept. 21:   Linda Ann Vorobik (Research Associate, UC/JEPS)

The Art of Botanical Illustration

 

Sept. 28:   Molly Nepokroeff (Associate Professor, University of South Dakota; Sabbatical Visitor, UC/JEPS)

Phylogeography of the Hawaiian endemic Schiedea globosa (Caryophyllaceae)

 

Oct. 5:   Kathleen Kay (Postdoctoral Researcher, UC/JEPS)

Speciation studies in Costus and Clarkia: pollinators, crossing barriers, and chromosomes

 

Oct. 12:   Paul Fine (new Assistant Professor, IB; Curator of Neotropical Flora, UC/JEPS)

Habitat specialization and speciation in a diverse Amazonian tree genus (Protium, Burseraceae)

 

Oct. 19:   Tom Bruns (Professor, PMB; Curator of Fungi, UC/JEPS))

The Pt. Reyes Mycoblitz

 

Oct. 26:   Susan Tremblay (new grad student, Mishler Lab)

Plant communities of Sonoma Valley: a melding of art and science

 

Nov. 2:   Thomas Madsen (new grad student, Mishler Lab)

Adventures in Iowa botany

 

Nov. 9:   Joel Nitta (Staff Researcher, Mishler Lab)

Biocoding the pteridophyte flora of Moorea: lessons learned from filmy ferns

 

Nov. 16:   Ben Carter (Grad student, Mishler Lab)

Using floristic data to assess spatial patterns of moss traits in a heterogeneous landscape: a case study from California

 

[Nov. 23:   No meeting; Thanksgiving weekend]

 

Nov. 30:   Anna Larsen (Grad student, Mishler Lab)

My dissertation in a (candle) nutshell

 

Dec. 7:   Sonia Nosratinia (Staff Researcher, Mishler Lab; Grad student at SFSU)

Four o’clock at twelve o’clock: Abronia by Sonia

 

Dec. 14:   Don Reynolds (Research Botanist, UC/JEPS)

A relic California mykota: relationships to tropical epifoliar fungi

 

    
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