Botany Lunch

Format Change: Botany Lunch is currently a hybrid model, in person and 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 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 2022. Please contact Brent Mishler, bmishler@berkeley.edu if you are interested in giving a talk.

Fall 2021 schedule
Click here to view schedules from previous sessions.

Aug. 27  Javier Jauregui, Ph.D. student, Mishler Lab, Dept. of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley.
     Phylogeny of the moss Syntrichia: a non-vascular plant with efficient water external conduction.

Sep. 3  Klara Scharnagl, Tucker Curator of Lichenology, University and Jepson Herbaria, University of California, Berkeley.
     Long term changes in alpine tundra lichen communities on Niwot Ridge, Colorado.

Sep. 10  Ben Carter, Director, Sharsmith Herbarium, and Associate Professor, San Jose State University.
     Spatial Phylogenetics of the North American Moss Flora.

Sep. 17  Israel Temitope Borokini, Smith Conservation Postdoctoral Fellow (Society for Conservation Biology), Mishler Lab, University of California, Berkeley.
     Ecological niche models: a tool in spatial phylogenetics and conservation.

Sep. 24  Kathy Ann Miller, Research Associate, University and Jepson Herbaria, University of California, Berkeley.
     California seaweeds: building a flora.

Oct. 1  Jason Alexander, Biodiversity Informatics Manager, University and Jepson Herbaria, University of California, Berkeley.
     The Lomatium grayi complex: an example of butterfly-host speciation in the western United States and an update on the new CCH1 website.

Oct. 8  Forrest Freund, Graduate Student, Rothfels Lab, Dept. of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley.
     Population genetics and phylogenetics of the Pacific Laurasian Clade of Isoëtes L. [a PhD finishing seminar].

Oct. 15  Isaac H. Lichter Marck, Graduate Student, Baldwin Lab, Dept. of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley.
     Plant diversification in a desert archipelago: a phylogenomic, systematic, and historical biogeographic analysis of the rock daisies (tribe Perityleae; Compositae) [a PhD finishing seminar].

Oct. 22  Julia Harenčár, Graduate Student, Kay Lab, Dept. of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz.
     Flexible drought escape in a lowland neotropical spiral ginger.

Oct. 29  Onja Razafindratsima, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley.
     Animal-mediated seed dispersal in Madagascar's biodiverse ecosystems.

Nov. 5  Susan Fawcett, Research Botanist, University and Jepson Herbaria, University of California, Berkeley.
     Biotic and abiotic factors shape fine-scale distribution and survival of two rare Asplenium species in northeastern North America.

Nov. 12  Kyle Rosenblad, Graduate Student, Ackerly Lab, Dept. of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley.
     Historical biogeography, trait evolution, and community assembly in Canarian Echium.

Nov. 19  Tracy Misiewicz, NSF Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Oklahoma; Research Botanist, University and Jepson Herbaria, University of California, Berkeley.
     Edaphic evolution in the tropical tree Protium subserratum.

Nov. 26  No Botany Lunch. Academic and Administrative Holiday

Dec. 3  David Adelhelm, Graduate Student, Rothfels Lab, Dept. of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley.
     Polyploidy and niche evolution in seed-free plants.

Dec. 10  Fern MacDougal, Graduate Student, Fine Lab, Dept. of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley.
     Improving natural history records and information sharing among scientists (a conversation).