Botany Lunch

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 Fall 2021. Please contact Bruce Baldwin, bbaldwin@berkeley.edu if you are interested in giving a talk.

ALL WELCOME!!

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

Jan. 12  Valerie Eviner, University of California, Davis.
     Addressing plant restoration and conservation challenges in California’s grasslands under a changing environment.

Jan. 29  Scott Armbruster, Portsmouth University & University of Alaska.
     Pollination accuracy leads to assemblage rules, but probably not reproductive isolation, in Western Australian triggerplant (Stylidiaceae) communities.

Feb. 5  Jason (Jay) Sexton, University of California, Merced.
     Do species ranges have rules? Using knowledge of species ranges to develop adaptive conservation strategies in plants.

Feb. 12  Alejandra Vasco, Botanical Research Institute of Texas.
     From the field to the lab, leaf evolution and development in the fern genus Elaphoglossum.

Feb. 19  Julie Kierstead, US Forest Service.
     Botanizing the Trinity Ultramafic Sheet, a geologic feature within the Klamath Ranges with its own suite of endemic flora.

Feb. 26  Matt Guilliams, Ken & Shirley Tucker Plant Systematist, Santa Barbara Botanic Garden
     From the field to the genetics lab: recent work sheds new light on the remarkable flora of Santa Catalina and the other California Channel Islands.

Mar. 5  Adriana Hernandez, Ph.D. student, School of Integrative Plant Science, Cornell University.
     Population genetics and floral trait evolution across the landscape in Calochortus venustus (Liliaceae).

Mar. 12  Andrew Thornhill, Research Associate, University of Adelaide.
     The South Australian State Herbarium Bryophyte DigiVol Project.

Mar. 19  Eric LoPresti, Assistant Professor of Plant Biology, Ecology, and Evolution, Oklahoma State University.
     The ecology and evolution of sticky plants.

Mar. 26  No Botany Lunch. Academic and Administrative Holiday, Spring Recess

Apr. 2  Barbara Ertter, Curator of Western North American Flora at the University and Jepson Herbaria, UC Berkeley; and Research Associate at both Boise State University and The College of Idaho.
     Treasures of the Boise Front: Rethinking Popular Floras during a Pandemic.

Apr. 9  Kyle Christie, Postdoctoral Researcher, Michigan State University & Northern Arizona University
      Cryptic diversity in California jewelflowers.

Apr. 17  Carolin Frank, Associate Professor of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of California, Merced.
     Biogeography of the subalpine conifer foliar microbiome.

Apr. 23  Javier Jauregui, Ph.D. student, Dept. of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley
     TBA....

Apr. 30  Mick Song, Ph.D. student, Dept. of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley
     The ecology and evolution of polyploid niches: investigating the interaction of ploidy, microbiomes, pathogens.

May 7  Shelley Sianta, postdoctoral researcher, Dept. of Plant & Microbial Biology, University of Minnesota.
     Factors associated with the evolution of serpentine endemism.

May 14  Dena Grossenbacher, Assistant Professor, Biological Sciences Dept., California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo.
     Change afoot in California’s alpine plant communities.