Research Talks – Spring 2013

The Arnold Arboretum holds a weekly seminar series most Mondays at 12:15pm at the Weld Hill Lecture Hall (*unless otherwise noted).

February 4 Mon, 12:15 pm Weld Hill	Preeti Rao Boston University, Hutyra Lab; Arboretum Deland Award Recipient Atmospheric nitrogen inputs and losses along an urbanization gradient in Boston
February 11 Mon, 12:15 pm Weld Hill	Hong Ma Distinguished Professor, Penn State and Professor and Dean, Fudan University Using highly stable nuclear genes to investigate angiosperm phylogeny: new hypotheses regarding relationships at the level of orders
February 19 *Tues, 12:15 pm Weld Hill	Cary Pirone Arnold Arboretum Putnam Fellow Pollination Drop Function in Cephalotaxus koreana and C. sinensis
March 4 Mon, 12:15 pm Weld Hill	Simone Cappellari Harvard University Post-doctoral Fellow, Davis Lab Coexistence and pollination niche overlap in specialist pollinated Malpighiaceae from the Brazilian Cerrado
March 18 Mon, 12:15 pm Weld Hill	Guang-you Hao Arnold Arboretum Putnam Fellow Linking xylem hydraulics with plant functioning: an ecological tour from tropical rainforest to desert
March 25 Mon, 12:15 pm Weld Hill	Sarah Mathews Arnold Arboretum Sargent Fellow “Gymnosperms” and angiosperms—the David and Goliath of seed plant phylogenetics
April 1 Mon, 12:15 pm Weld Hill	Larry Hufford Professor and Director, Washington State University Kittentails in time and space: phylogeny, diversity, and biogeography of Synthyris (Plantaginaceae)
April 10 *Wed, 12:15 pm Weld Hill	Juha Tuomi Professor of Plant Ecology, University of Oulu, Finland Conditional species interactions: antagonism vs mutualism
April 16 *Tues, 12:15 pm Weld Hill	HUH Seminar at the Arboretum Rebecca Irwin Dartmouth College Anthropogenic change and the fate of pollination services
April 22 Mon, 12:15 pm Weld Hill	Hazel Wetzstein Professor, University of Georgia The return of Elliottia racemosa to the Arnold Arboretum: An integrated approach to plant conservation
April 29 Mon, 12:15 pm Weld Hill	John Klironomos Professor, Biology, University of British Columbia Scorched earth strategy by invasive alien plants
May 9 *Thurs, 12:15 pm Weld Hill	Kristina Stinson Harvard Forest, Community Ecologist Ecotypic variation in common ragweed response to climate change – something to sneeze about?
May 13 Mon, 12:15 pm Weld Hill	Andrew Groover Geneticist, USDA Forest Service, UC Davis Developing a genome-scale view of the genetic processes regulating the vascular cambium and wood formation in trees.
May 30 *Thurs, 12:15 pm Weld Hill	Steven Vogel Research Professor, Duke University Twisting in the Wind: Living with the Forces of Flow

Calendar of additional life science seminars at Harvard University.

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