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

ALL WELCOME!!

Spring 2023 schedule
Click here to view schedules from previous sessions.

Jan. 20  Adriana Hernández, Postdoctoral Fellow, California Academy of Sciences.
      Disentangling phenotypic patterns from evolutionary processes: from Calochortus to Castilleja.

Jan. 27[cancelled]

Feb. 3  Samridhi Chaturvedi, Postdoctoral Fellow, Whiteman Lab (IB), University of California, Berkeley
     A genomics perspective to understand co-evolutionary interactions between California Pipevine Swallowtail and its host plant California Pipevine.

Feb. 10  Jaemin Lee, PhD student, Looy Lab (IB), University of California, Berkeley.
     More tales of the Mesozoic: terrestrial paleoecology during the age of dinosaurs.

Feb. 17  Nina House, new Museum Scientist, Jepson Herbarium, University of California Berkeley
     A vascular flora of the Manter and Salmon Creek Watersheds in the southern Sierra Nevada, Tulare County, CA.

Feb. 24  Rachel Meyer, Assistant Adjunct Professor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and CALeDNA Program Director (https://ucedna.com/), University of California, Santa Cruz.
     Botanical eDNA 101: what works, what doesn't, and where is the field going?

Mar. 3  William Brightly, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Sheffield, England.
     Investigating the evolution of seed dispersal strategy in grasses.

Mar. 10  Megan Mucioki, Assistant Research Professor, The Pennsylvania State University.
     Exploring the conservation challenges and needs of culturally significant plant species through climate change and multiple ways of knowing.

Mar. 17  Anna Scharnagl, PhD student, Simms Lab (IB), University of California, Berkeley.
     The importance of setting a baseline: what we know about plant microbiomes.

Mar. 24  Robert Comito, PhD student, California Botanical Garden and Claremont Graduate School.
     Conservation genomics in two lineages of Lamiales: Systematics of tropical tribe Barlerieae (Acanthaceae) and population survey of rare California pitcher sage Lepechinia rossii (Lamiaceae).

Mar. 31  No Botany Lunch. Spring Recess, Academic and Administrative Holiday

Apr. 7  Emily Meineke, Assistant Professor of Urban Landscape Entomology, University of California, Davis.
     Herbivory through the ages: assessing herbarium specimens as repositories of plant-insect interactions.

Apr. 14  Barnabas Daru, new Assistant Professor at Stanford University.
     Integrating global plant biodiversity for biogeography and evolutionary ecology.

Apr. 21  Andrew Doran, Director of Collections, University of California Botanical Garden, University of California, Berkeley.
     Orphaned collections: a guide to adoption.

Apr. 28  Jodi McGraw, former PhD student in the Sousa Lab (IB), now Ecologist, Jodi McGraw Consulting.
     Ecology and conservation of the Santa Cruz sandhills plant communities: exploration of the flora with highlights from a rare plant reintroduction for the endangered Santa Cruz Wallflower (Erysimum teretifolium, Brassicaceae).

May 5  No Botany Lunch.
     Cancelled due to Integrative Biology faculty retreat and symposium.

May 12  Israel Temitope Borokini, Smith Conservation Postdoctoral Fellow (Society for Conservation Biology), Mishler Lab, University and Jepson Herbaria, UC Berkeley
     Spatial phylogenetics of the United States seed plants.