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Format Change: Botany Lunch is currently completely 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 Brent Mishler, BMishler@berkeley.edu.
Botany Lunch will resume in-person meetings when the UC Berkeley Campus returns to normal operations.
Talks are already filling up for Spring 2021. Please contact Bruce Baldwin, bbaldwin@berkeley.edu if you are interested in giving a talk.
ALL WELCOME!!
Fall 2020 schedule
Click here to view schedules from previous sessions.
Aug. 21 Jennifer Sowerwine, Assistant Cooperative Extension Specialist (ESPM); Curator of Food Plants, University and Jepson Herbaria, UC Berkeley.
Biocultural systems, food security and eco-cultural restoration in the Klamath River Basin.
Aug. 28 Jenn Wagner, PhD student, Looy lab (IB), University of California, Berkeley.
Plant community change during the early Paleogene in the Gulf Coastal Plain.
Sep. 4 Reilly Hayes, PhD student, Looy lab (IB), University of California, Berkeley
Reconstructing spatio-temporal patterns of vegetation change in the Permian of Gondwana: a model-based palynological approach.
Sep. 11 Israel Temitope Borokini, PhD student, Dept. of Biology, University of Nevada, Reno.
Taxonomic implications of variations in nuclear genomic size in Ivesia from western North America.
Sep. 18 Benjamin Blonder, new professor in ESPM; Curator of Macroecology, University and Jepson Herbaria, University of California, Berkeley.
Remote sensing of genotypes, and genotype-dependent mortality in quaking aspen.
Sep. 25 Patrick McIntyres, Senior Ecologist, Western North America, NatureServe.
A tale in two parts: botanical conservation efforts in the NatureServe Network and ecogeography of arboreal Ipomoea.
Oct. 2 Carol Wilson, Research Botanist, University and Jepson Herbaria, University of California, Berkeley.
Parasitic relationships in the canopy: mistletoe diversity, biogeography, and interactions.
Oct. 9 Anna Scharnagl, PhD student, Simms lab (IB), University of California, Berkeley.
Landscape-level mapping of the microbiome: a proposed case study using coastal prairie.
Oct. 16 Sarah Jacobsn, new Howell Chair of Western North American Botany, California Academy of Sciences.
Castilleja systematics and the speciation grey zone: the challenges (and potential!) of working in recent plant radiations.
Oct. 23 Abigail Moore, Assistant Professor of Plant Biology and Bebb Herbarium Curator, University of Oklahoma.
Investigations in Great Plains Grindelia with RADseq and transcriptome data.
Oct 30 Klara Scharnagl, currently Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Sainsbury Laboratory in Norwich, UK; starting Jan. 1, 2021: new Tucker Curator of Lichenology, University and Jepson Herbaria, University of California, Berkeley.
Big worlds in small packages: exploring the collection and preservation of lichen specimens.
Nov. 6 Bruce Baldwin, Jepson Curator and Professor (UC/JEPS & IB), University of California, Berkeley.
Recent findings in silversword alliance evolution and biogeography.
Nov. 13 Michael Sundue, Research Assistant Professor of Plant Biology, and Curator, Pringle Herbarium, University of Vermont.
Global patterns of fern diversity: mountains, climate, and niche heterogeneity.
Nov. 20 Ixchel Gonzalez Ramirez, PhD student, Mishler Lab (IB), University of California, Berkeley.
Where in geographical and environmental space is North American liverwort diversity?
Nov. 27 No Botany Lunch - Academic and Administrative Thanksgiving Holiday
Dec. 4 Ellen Dean, Emeritus Curator, Center for Plant Diversity, University of California, Berkeley.
Diversity in the genus Lycianthes (Solanaceae) in Mexico and Central America.
Dec. 11 Moe Bakhtiari, Post-doctoral Fellow, Whiteman Lab (IB), University of California, Berkeley.
Ecological convergence of secondary phytochemicals along elevational gradients: Case study in Cardamine (Brassicaceae).
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