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Botany Lunch

         
    We're now scheduling speakers for the Spring 2010 schedule! Please contact Andrew Doran if you are interested in giving a talk.
Botany Lunch meets Fridays at noon during the academic year in the Herbarium Break Room (enter via 1001 Valley Life Sciences Building)

ALL WELCOME!!

Fall 2009 schedule

Aug. 28 2009: Dan Norris (Research Botanist, University & Jepson Herbaria)
Life Strategies of Bryophytes in Tropical Rainforests.

4 Sep. 2009: Lenny Kouwenberg (Paleobotany postdoc for Cindy Looy)
Paleobotanical proxies for paleoelevation: a case study on a Miocene flora from the Sierra Nevada.

11 Sep. 2009: Anneleen Kool (PhD Candidate, Uppsala University)
Paronychia of the Andes: Preliminary results, difficult morphology and vague pictures from one of South America's least attractive genera.

18 Sep. 2009: Hugo de Boer (PhD Candidate, Uppsala University)
Plant trade in Southern Morocco: Market Ethnobotany and Molecular Barcoding.

25 Sep. 2009: Daniel Gluesenkamp, Ph.D. (Director, Habitat Protection and Restoration)

The Bay Area Early Detection Network.


2 Oct. 2009: Aaron Ramirez (Graduate Student, Ackerley Lab.)
Trouble in paradise: Alien deer drive mortality of native shrubs on Santa Catalina Island.

9 Oct. 2009: Paul Fine (Assistant Professor, Integrative Biology, Curator of Neotropical Flora, University and Jepson Herbaria)
From 0 - 1974 m Elevation, 3000 km of Roads--Collecting all of Cuba's Burseraceae in 10 days.

16 Oct. 2009: Carolina Gomez-Navarro (Graduate student, Specht Lab)
Palms (Arecaceae) from a Paleocene rainforest of Colombia.

23 Oct. 2009: Richard Moe (Manager of Collections Data, University & Jepson Herbaria)
The Consortium of California Herbaria.

30 Oct. 2009: Gudrun Clausing (Institut für Spezielle Botanik und Botanischer Garten, Universität Mainz, Germany)
A taxonomic nightmare comes true: phylogeny, biogeography and evolution of Salicornia (Chenopodiaceae).

6 Nov. 2009: Kelly Agnew (Bioinformatics Specialist, University & Jepson Herbaria)
The Type Specimen Project of UC and JEPS.

13 Nov. 2009: Holly Forbes (Curator, UC Botanical Garden)
Conservation Adventures of the UC Botanical Garden.

20 Nov. 2009: Chodon Sass (Graduate Student, Specht Lab)
Phylogeny of core Bromelioids with a focus on Aechmea (Bromeliaceae): it’s not what you look like, it’s where you're from.

27 Nov. 2009: No Botany Lunch

Dec. 4 2009: Joachim Kadereit (Professor, University of Mainz, Director, Institut für Spezielle Botanik und Botanischer Garten)
Phylogeny of Old World Papaveroideae.

Dec. 11 2009: Heath Bartosh (Senior Botanist & GIS Specialist, Nomad Ecological Consulting)
Heaven Burned: Post-Fire Flora of North Coast Ridge Road, Big Sur.

Dec.18 2009: No Botany Lunch