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 2015 schedule
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Jan. 23 Barbara Ertter, Curator of Western North American Flora, University & Jepson Herbaria, University of California, Berkeley
North Across Alaska: A Transect from Anchorage to the Brooks Range
Jan. 30 John Stebbins, Lecturer Emeritus, Department of Biology, California State University, Fresno. Rare Plant Committee Chair, Sequoia Chapter, California Native Plant Society
Helianthus winteri (Asteraceae): A new California Sunflower "Hiding in Plain Sight"
Feb. 6 Danny Slakey, Project Coordinator for the Rare Plant Treasure Hunt and Rare Plant Program Assistant, California Native Plant Society
Rare Plant Surveys in the Los Padres National Forest
Feb. 13 Andrew Thornhill, Post Doc., Mishler Lab., Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley
Studies of a tree maker: the many uses of phylogenetics with a focus on Australian plants
Feb. 20 Stephen Yee, Grad. Student, Specht Lab., Department of Plant & Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley
Untangling the evolution of the Polycomb Group Proteins across eukaryotes
Feb. 27 Josie Iselin, Photographer, Author and Book Designer
An Ocean Garden: The Secret Life of Seaweed
Mar. 6 Caleb Caswell-Levy, Grad. Student, Mishler Lab., Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley
John Muir Trail Hike
Mishler Lab
Mar. 13 Jennie Haas, Botanist, Stanislaus National Forest, U. S. Forest Service
Rim Fire: Challenges to Native Plant Restoration
Mar. 20 Heath Bartosh, Senior Botanist, Nomad Ecology, Research Associate, University & Jepson Herbaria & Brian Peterson, Botanist and Fire Ecologist, Nomad Ecology
Morgan Post-Fire Study: A Framework for Fire Followers and Fleeting Abundance
Nomad Ecology
Mar. 27th No Botany Lunch. Academic & Administrative Holiday
Apr. 3 Gordon Frankie, Professor, Dept. of Environmental Science, Policy, & Management, University of California, Berkeley
Bees, Blooms, and People: What do they have in common?
UC Berkeley Urban Bee Lab
Apr. 10 William Iles, Post Doc., Specht Lab, Department of Plant and Microbial Biology
The phylogenetics and evolution of the ancient and isolated angiosperm family Hydatellaceae
Apr. 17 Prahlad Papper, Grad. Student, Ackerly Lab, Dept. of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley
The California Phenology Project
Apr. 24 Bruce Baldwin, W. L. Jepson Professor and Curator, Jepson Herbarium and Department of Integrative Biology
Revisiting origins and relationships of the California flora
May 1 Chris Gardner, Vira Natura
Flora of the Silk Road: assembling an illustrated Flora
May 8 John Game, Research Associate, University & Jepson Herbaria
Maui and Kauai: Further Explorations in Hawaiian Botany
May 15 Bruce Baldwin, W. L. Jepson Professor and Curator, Jepson Herbarium and Department of Integrative Biology
Revisiting origins and relationships of the California flora
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