Botany Lunch

Spring 2007 schedule

Jan. 12:   Steve Matson (Tahoe Chapter, CNPS)

California botanical highlights from 2006

Jan. 19: Petra Foerster (Collections Management, UC/JEPS):

The flora and vegetation of the Nationalpark Hainich in Thuringia, Germany

Jan. 26: Mo-mei Chen (Research Associate, UC/JEPS)

The Dawn Redwood Story: a look at fossil and modern populations of Metasequoia

Feb. 2: Leigh Johnson (Associate Professor, Brigham Young University):

Here and there: systematic botany in the western United States and Patagonia

Feb. 9: Scott Simono (Jepson Flora Project, UC/JEPS)

Montane Meadows of the eastern Sierra Nevada between Truckee and Sierra Valley

Feb. 16 Nick Matzke (National Center for Science Education)

Evolution versus 'intelligent design' at the Kitzmiller v. Dover trial

Feb. 23: Jon Shaw (Professor, Duke University):

Biogeography and evolution in Sphagnum section Subsecundum

Mar. 2: Zoya Akulova-Barlow

Flora of Northern Argentina

Mar. 9: Barbara Ertter (Curator of Western North American Flora, UC/JEPS)
and Fosiee Tahbaz (Curator of Middle Eastern Flora, UC/JEPS):

The American-Iranian Botanical Program

Mar. 16: Bruce Baldwin (Jepson Curator, UC/JEPS)

Pacific angiosperm dispersals and radiations of western North American origin

Mar. 23: Linda Ann Vorobik (Research Associate, UC/JEPS)

A yankee botanist's search for native New Zealand bush: a botanical travelogue

[Mar. 30: SPRING BREAK]

Apr. 6: Marcus Lehnert (Grad student, Mishler Lab)

Fern evolution in the Andes: old and young lineages compared: Cyathea vs. Melpomene

Apr. 13: Jessica DaSilva (Biodiversity Conservation Intern, Ministry of Natural Resources, Ontario, Canada):

Conservation of Cycads

Apr. 20: Eric Harris (Grad student, Mishler Lab)

The Ethnobotany of Medicinal Moss used in Southwest China

Apr. 27: Elizabeth Zacharias (Grad student, Baldwin Lab)

Photosynthetic-pathway evolution, ecological radiation, and cryptic diversity in American Atriplex (Chenopodiaceae)

May 4: John Game (Research Associate, UC/JEPS)

Botany and Geography of the Cook Islands

May 11: Danielle Svehla (Grad student, Energy and Resources Group, UCB)

Flora of the Santa Ana River: Techniques for Combining Technical and Popular Botany

May 18: Don Reynolds (Research Botanist, UC/JEPS):

Tropical forest canopy fungi