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 2023. Please contact Brent Mishler, bmishler@berkeley.edu if you are interested in giving a talk.

ALL WELCOME!!

Fall 2022 schedule
Click here to view schedules from previous sessions.

Aug. 26  Ixchel González-Ramírez, PhD student, Dept. of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley.
     A tale of the small: studies on the liverwort family Aytoniaceae.

Sep. 2  Grey (Gregory) Arena, PhD student, Dawson Lab, Dept. of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley.
     Impacts of coastal scrub encroachment on the diversity of native grasslands in the Bay Area.

Sep. 9  Rachel Brem, Associate Professor, Dept. of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley.
     Unbiased genetic dissection of trait variation between species.

Sep. 16  Courtenay Ray, PhD student, Blonder Lab (ESPM), University of California, Berkeley.
     Microclimate modification, seed trapping, and seed retention: how small-scale processes help structure communities.

Sep. 23  Seheno Andriantsaralaza, Lecturer, Department of Plant Biology and Ecology, University of Antananarivo, Madagascar.
     The mystery of the seed dispersal of baobabs in Madagascar.

Sep. 30  Christian Henry, postdoctoral fellow, University of California, Los Angeles and University of California, Berkeley.
     Evolutionary climate relationships of leaf traits across the California and Hawaiian flora.

Oct. 7  Jesus Martinez-Gomez, Postdoctoral fellow, Blackman Lab, Dept. of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley.
     Towards a more realistic understanding of inflorescence evolution and development: from monocots to monkeyflowers.

Oct. 14  Anthony Baniaga, Curator, University of California, Los Angeles Herbarium.
     Patterns of spontaneous sidewalk vegetation in urban Los Angeles.

Oct. 21  William "Billy" Hoyer, Natural Resources Manager, US Navy, San Nicolas Island.
     Botanical resources management on San Nicolas Island.

Oct. 28  Riswan Rasheed, Associate Professor, University Faisalabad, Pakistan; visiting researcher, Simms Lab, Dept. of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley.
     Abiotic stress tolerance in plants.

Nov. 4  Natalie Love, Frost Postdoctoral Fellow, Biological Sciences Department, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo.
     California native tree diversity and what it means for urban forests.

Nov. 11  No Botany Lunch. Veterans Day. Academic and Administrative Holiday

Nov. 18  Adriana Hernández, Postdoctoral Fellow, California Academy of Sciences.
     Disentangling phenotypic patterns from evolutionary processes: from Calochortus to Castilleja.

Nov. 25  No Botany Lunch. Thanksgiving. Academic and Administrative Holiday

Dec. 2  Jason Alexander, Biodiversity Informatics Manager of the University and Jepson Herbaria, UC Berkeley.
     An informal demonstration of features added to the new CCH1 portal in 2022.

Dec. 9  Maya Zomer, PhD student, Department of Ecology, Desertification Research Center, Valencia, Spain; visiting student, Blonder Lab (ESPM), University of California, Berkeley.
     Post-fire regeneration of Mediterranean plants across climate gradients.