Botany Lunch meets Fridays at noon during the academic year. Talks are in 1002 Valley Life Sciences Building (entrance in small corridor by north entrance on ground floor). Talks are already filling up for 2014. Please contact Andrew Doran if you are interested in giving a talk.
ALL WELCOME!!
Fall 2013 schedule
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Sep. 6 David Ackerly (Professor, Department of Integrative Biology, Curator of Ecology, University & Jepson Herbaria), & Katie Thomas (Research Assistant, Ackerly Lab. Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley)
The Baker Seed Herbarium: recovering a legacy database
Sep 13 Darko Cotoras (Grad. Student, Lind Lab / Evo Lab, Department of Integrative Biology University of California, Berkeley)
Plants of Rapa Nui
Sep 20 Dori Lynne Contreras (Grad. Student, Looy Lab, Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley)
A fossil history of redwoods
Looy Lab
Sep 27 Will Freyman, Grad. Student, Baldwin Lab. Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley
Phylogeny and divergence times among the North American Rhodiola (Crassulaceae) species
Oct. 4 Clarissa Fontes (Grad. Student, Dawson Lab, Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley)
Revealing the causes and temporal distribution of tree mortality in the Central Amazonia
Oct. 11 Elaine Sedlack (Horticulturist, UC Botanical Garden)
Sorting out the Genus Rhododendron: A taxonomic overview of the current understanding of this large complex of species
Oct. 18 Susan Fawcett (Volunteer, University & Jepson Herbaria)
The Flora and Ecology of a Neotropical Savanna, Utila, Bay Islands, Honduras
Oct. 25 Ben Tan (Associate Professor, National University of Singapore, Curator of Bryophytes, University & Jepson Herbaria)
Recent advances in Malesian moss biogeography
Nov. 1 Ted Kipping (Arborist and Lecturer, Treeshapers)
Islands West of Baja California
Nov. 8 Tommy Stoughton (Ph.D. student in Botany, Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden)
Is southern California still a black hole for botanists? Species problems from my 'well-botanized' backyard
Nov. 15 Dr. Kathryn Davis (Director, Global Studies, San Jose State University)
At Home in the Wild: The Botanical Adventures of Ynes Mexia
Nov. 22 Alison Colwell (Botanist, USGS Yosemite Field Station)
The Yosemite Flora and Fire
Nov. 29th No Botany Lunch. Academic & Administrative Holiday
Dec. 6 Nisrine Machaka-Houri (Postdoctoral Fellow, Specht Lab., University of California, Berkeley)
Biodiversity of Lebanon: 16 years of exploration and conservation
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