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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 Paul Fine at: paulfine@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).

ALL WELCOME!!

Spring 2026 schedule
Click here to view schedules from previous sessions.









Feb. 13  Miranda Redmond, Associate Professor, Department of Environmental Science, Policy & Management, University of California, Berkeley.
     From Mast Seeding to Tree Die-off: How Environmental Gradients Shape Tree Demographic Responses to Climate



Feb. 20  Sarah Jacobs, Assistant Curator of Botany, Cal Academy
     Mixed signals from the paintbrushes: a species boundary identity crisis in Castilleja.



Feb. 27  Andrea Nebhut, Graduate student, Dukes Lab, Stanford University.
     Warming and precipitation change alter flowering phenology in California serpentine grasslands



Mar. 6  Emma Steigerwald, Postdoc, UC Santa Cruz & UC Berkeley.
     Tarplants in the Mist: Isolation & adaptation in a rare endemic of California's Fog Belt



Mar. 13  Jinseul Kyung, Postdoc Exposito Alonso Lab, University of California, Berkeley.
     Evolutionary hisory of natural variants of plant photoreceptors



Mar. 20  Jason Vleminckx, Faculty member, Universite Liberte Brussels (Belgium).
     TBD...



Mar. 27  [Spring Break].
     


Apr. 3  Betsabé Castro Escobar, Recent PhD (Fine Lab), Dept. of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley.
     Cracking Open the Calabash: Tracing Ancestral Roots and a Botanical Reappraisal of the Crescentieae Tribe (Bignoniaceae) in the Caribbean and Tropical Americas



Apr. 10  Eddy Mendoza, Graduate student PMB, University of California, Berkeley.
     Prickly stories to protect: Conservation genetics of the Saguaro cactus and Mezcal Agaves



Apr. 17  Ceyda Kural, Post doctoral scholar Guzman Lab, Stanford University.
     TBD...



Apr. 24  Ricardo Kriebel, Assistant Professor, Assistant Curator of Botany, Cal Academy.
     TBD...



May 1  Fern Wildtruth, PhD student (Fine Lab), Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley.
     Finishing Talk TBD...