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).

Talks are already filling up for Fall 2024. Please contact Brent Mishler, bmishler@berkeley.edu if you are interested in giving a talk.

ALL WELCOME!!


Spring 2024 schedule
Click here to view schedules from previous sessions.

 

 

Jan. 19  Jun Bando, Executive Director, California Native Plant Society.
      Evidence-informed advocacy – a nonprofit perspective.

 

Jan. 26  Danielle Ward, PhD Student, Ackerly Lab and Scharnagl Lab (IB), University of California, Berkeley
      Leaf dwelling lichens: a tour of a phyllosphere.

 

Feb. 2  Barbara Ertter, Curator of Western North American Flora (and former Collections Manager), University and Jepson Herbaria , University of California, Berkeley
      Timothy E. Wilcox: army surgeon and botanist/naturalist on the American frontier.

 

Feb. 9  Lúcia Lohmann, Director of the University and Jepson Herbaria, and Professor in IB, University of California, Berkeley.
      Expedition to the Serra do Imeri, Brazil, mountains completely unknown to science.

 

Feb. 16  Audrey Dickinson, undergraduate student, Oxford University
   [Zoom only]  Greening graves: biodiversity in cemeteries.

 

Feb. 23  Shane Hanofee, field botanist
   [Zoom only] The flora of Nevada County, California, including some notable new collections.

 

Mar. 1  Brent Mishler, Distinguished Professor (IB) and Curator of Bryophytes, University and Jepson Herbaria, University of California, Berkeley.
     Galapagos: crucible of evolution, with some thoughts on a phylogenetic approach to island biology.

 

Mar. 8  Jenna Ekwealor, IB PhD alumna (Mishler Lab); new assistant professor, San Francisco State University.
      Mysteries of evolution in Syntrichia: sexual condition, polyploidy, and stress tolerance in a changing climate.

 

Mar. 15  Ren Hamm, PhD Student, Blackman Lab (PMB), University of California, Berkeley.
     Hung out to dry: investigating drought adaptation in yellow monkeyflower.

 

Mar. 22  Steve Matson, Tahoe Chapter, California Native Plant Society.
   [Zoom only] A season in the field.

 

Mar. 29  No Botany Lunch. Spring Recess, Academic and Administrative Holiday

 

Apr. 5  Pritam Banerjee, Postdoctoral Fellow, ESPM, University of California, Berkeley.
      Environmental DNA analysis as an emerging non-destructive method for biodiversity monitoring and species-interaction study.

 

Apr. 12  Asa Conover, PhD Student, Koskella Lab (IB), University of California, Berkeley.
      Plant-pathogen networks in complex plant communities.

 

Apr. 19  Jason Alexander, Biodiversity Informatics Manager, University and Jepson Herbaria, University of California, Berkeley.
      A status update and demonstration of new features for CCH1 for 2024.

 

Apr. 26  Eli Allen, Masters student, Vargas Lab, Dept. of Biological Sciences, California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt.
      Understanding the divergence of a rare California sand verbena, Abronia villosa var. aurita.

 

May 3  [no Botany Lunch because of conflict with the IB Symposium].
     

 

May 10  Ixchel González-Ramírez, PhD Student, Mishler Lab (IB), University of California, Berkeley.
   [finishing talk] The evolutionary journey of liverworts: insights from the Aytoniaceae.