Botany Lunch

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).

Talks are already filling up for Spring 2019. Please contact Brent Mishler if you are interested in giving a talk.

Fall 2018 schedule
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Aug. 24  Joel Nitta, Postdoctoral Fellow, National Museum of Nature and Science, Japan
     Next-generation DNA sequencing approaches to unraveling a highly polyploid fern species complex.

Aug. 31  Kirsten Fisher, Associate Professor (Biological Sciences), California State University, Los Angeles
     Survival, sex, and death in the life of a desert moss.

Sep. 7  Keir Wefferling, Postdoctoral Fellow, Rothfels Lab (IB), University of California, Berkeley.
     Disentangling the subalpine marshmarigold species complex.

Sep. 14  Mathew Kling, PhD student, Ackerly lab (IB), University of California, Berkeley.
     Future conservation priorities for the California flora: weighing alternative dimensions of evolutionary diversity.

Sep. 21  Ixchel S González Ramírez, PhD student, Ackerly lab (IB), University of California, Berkeley.
     From arthropod-plant interactions and fossil conifers to Mexican bryophytes.

Sep. 28  John Game, Research Associate, University and Jepson Herbaria, University of California, Berkeley.
     Rare plants, special places: forty years of California botanizing.

Oct. 5  Vanessa Handley, Director of Research and Collections, University of California Botanical Garden.
     From Confiscation to Conservation: Molecular Detective Work in the UCBG Cycad Collection.

Oct. 12  Javier Jauregui Lazo, PhD student, Mishler lab (IB), University of California, Berkeley.
     Systematics of the diverse moss clade Syntrichia in South America.

Oct. 19  Brent Mishler, Director, University and Jepson Herbaria, and professor (IB), University of California, Berkeley.
     Desiccation and diversity in the dryland moss Syntrichia

Oct. 26  Caleb Caswell-Levy, PhD student, Mishler lab (IB), University of California, Berkeley.
     Diversity and community phylogenetics of a tropical epiphyte assembly.

Nov. 2  Jun Lim, PhD student, Marshall lab (IB), University of California, Berkeley.
     Peperomia in the Pacific: a complex history of long-distance dispersal.

Nov. 9  Jenna Baughman, PhD student, Mishler lab (IB), University of California, Berkeley.
     UV protection in Mojave Desert mosses.

Nov. 16  Rachael Olliff Yang, PhD student, Ackerly lab (IB), University of California, Berkeley.
     Grassland phenology at Pepperwood Preserve.

Nov. 23  No Botany Lunch - Academic and Administrative Holiday

Nov. 30  Manuel Luján, Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Botany, California Academy of Sciences.
     Evolution of CAM in Neotropical Clusia, insights from leaf anatomy, biochemistry and climate.

Dec. 7  Carrie Tribble, PhD student, Rothfels and Specht labs(PMB/IB), University of California, Berkeley.
     Explorations in underground morphologies of Liliales.

Dec. 14  Gabriel Damasco, PhD student, Fine lab (IB), University of California, Berkeley.
     Disentangling the evolutionary history of a hyperdominant plant taxon in the Neotropics