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). Please contact Andrew Doran if you are interested in giving a talk.
ALL WELCOME!!
Spring 2014 schedule
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Jan. 24 Nancy Morin (Vice President for Business and Development, Flora of North America; Research Associate, University & Jepson Herbaria)
Quandaries in Campanulaceae phylogenies
Special Botany Lunch: Candidate for Faculty/Curator position
Jan 28th, Tuesday 11:30 (note special day and time)
Ivalú Cacho (Postdoctoral Researcher, Strauss Lab., Department of Ecology & Evolution and Center for Population Biology, University of California, Davis)
From true islands to habitat islands: systematics and ecology in the Caribbean and California
Strauss Lab
Special Botany Lunch: Candidate for Faculty/Curator position
Jan 31, 12:00 noon
Felipe Zapata (Postdoctoral Fellow, Dunn Lab, Department of ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Brown University)
Species delimitation using morphological data: the fundamental role of natural history collections in biodiversity science
Special Botany Lunch: Candidate for Faculty/Curator position
Feb. 4, Tuesday 11:30 (note special day and time)
Carl Rothfels (Postdoctoral Fellow, Otto Lab, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada)
Adventures with a cosmopolitan fern family
Special Botany Lunch: Candidate for Faculty/Curator position
Feb. 7, 12:00 noon
Chuck Bell (Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, The University of New Orleans)
Inferring evolutionary processes in the flora of western North America: an integrative, collections-based approach
Special Botany Lunch: Candidate for Faculty/Curator position
Feb. 14, 12:00 noon
Rick Ree (Curator of Seed Plants, Botany Department, The Field Museum, Chicago; Faculty member of the Committee on Evolutionary Biology graduate program at the University of Chicago, and the Assistant Director of the Biodiversity Synthesis Center (BioSynC))
Stitching together the tree of life, from its finest to deepest branches
Feb. 21 Adam Roddy (Graduate Student, Dawson Lab., Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley)
A physiological approach to the ecology and evolution of flowers
Feb. 28 Jim Shevock (Research Associate, University & Jepson Herbaria, California Academy of Sciences)
The opportunities and challenges of collecting rheophytic bryophytes in Taiwan and mainland China
Mar. 7 Joe Hereford (Post Doc., Ackerly Lab. University of California, Berkeley)
Evolution of photosynthetic pathways and adaptation across climate gradients
Mar. 14 Marcos Carlucci (Ackerly Lab., Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley)
Regional phylogenetic composition and local phylogenetic structure of tree communities in the Neotropics and Afrotropics
Mar. 21 Jeff Benca (Grad. Student, Looy Lab, Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley)
Testing climatic influences on leaf shape across the vascular plant tree of life
Looy Lab
Mar. 28 No Botany Lunch. Academic and Administrative Holiday
Apr. 4 John Game (Research Associate, University & Jepson Herbaria)
The World’s Rarest Fern and more: Hawaii 2013
Apr. 11 Kerry Knudsen (Curator of Lichens, Herbarium of U. C. Riverside, University of California, Riverside)
Lichens of Joshua Tree National Park
Apr. 18 Kate Davis (Director, Global Studies, San Jose State University)
At Home in the Wild: The Botanical Adventures of Ynes Mexia
Apr. 25 Andrew Doran (Assistant Director for Collections, University & Jepson Herbaria)
Digitization at UC/JEPS, History, People, Plants, Projects
May 2 Heath Bartosh (Senior Botanist, Nomad Ecology; Research Associate, University & Jepson Herbaria)
Botanizing Jepson's Backyard, The Solano County Flora Project
May 9 Alan Smith (Curator of Pteridophytes, University & Jepson Herbaria, University of California, Berkeley)
Botanizing southwestern Australia, a biodiversity hotspot
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