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2024

AA Research Talks
Monday, February 26, 2024, 12:10 pm
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Postdoctoral Fellow, Hopkins Lab, Harvard University
Fellow of the Arnold Arboretum

A fateful foray into the Phlox genome
HUH Seminar Series
Tuesday, February 20, 2024, 12:00 pm

Mitchell J. Blutt and Margo Krody Blutt Presidential Assistant Professor of Biology
University of Pennsylvania

Distinct transcriptional outcomes from an overlapped genetic network architecture
AA Research Talks
Monday, January 29, 2024, 12:10 pm
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Robert E. King Distinguished Investigator, Donald Danforth Plant Research Center
National Academy of Sciences
Associate of the Arnold Arboretum

Gene and genome evolution in maize and wild grasses
HUH Seminar Series
Tuesday, January 23, 2024, 12:00 pm
Tiago Vieira

HUH Research Fellow

Systematics and evolution of Prosthechea (Orchidaceae), a remarkably diverse Neotropical lineage

2023

AA Research Talks
Monday, December 18, 2023, 12:10 pm
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NE CASC Postdoctoral Fellow, UMass Amherst

Invasive plant impacts in the continental United States: processes, patterns and prevention
AA Research Talks
Monday, December 11, 2023, 12:10 pm

Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University
Host: Taylor Lab

Fungal traits and forest responses to elevated CO2
HUH Seminar Series
Tuesday, November 21, 2023, 12:00 pm
Dawson White

HUH Research Fellow

In-situ and ex-situ conservation at Centinela, and searching for the lost Amazonian coca: An informal presentation of 2023 field work in Ecuador
AA Research Talks
Monday, November 20, 2023, 12:10 pm

Professor Emeritus, UC San Diego
Host: Hopkins Lab

Effects of non-native honey bees on plants and pollinators in a biodiversity hotspot
AA Research Talks
Monday, October 30, 2023, 12:10 pm
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Global Change Fellow, Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University
Environmental Fellow, Harvard Center for the Environment

Arctic heatwaves and nitrogen and carbon cycling
AA Research Talks
Monday, October 23, 2023, 12:10 pm
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Associate Professor, University of Minnesota, Duluth
2023 Jewett Prize Awardee and Visiting Scholar, Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University

Fun with phloem: What we know, don’t know, and wish we knew
HUH Seminar Series
Tuesday, October 10, 2023, 12:00 pm
Jenifer de Carvalho Lopes Dantas

HUH Research Fellow

Diversity of the Brazilian Flora and the program REFLORA
AA Research Talks
Friday, August 4, 2023, 11:00 am
DaRin Butz Foundation Undergraduate Research Program Summer Presentations
AA Research Talks
Monday, May 1, 2023, 12:10 pm

Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences, Dartmouth College

The symbiosis that shapes the soil
AA Research Talks
Monday, April 24, 2023, 12:10 pm

Ph.D. Candidate, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Understanding barriers: Bringing people to conservation
HUH Seminar Series
Tuesday, April 18, 2023, 12:00 pm
Margaret Frank

Assistant Professor, Cornell University

Breaking and building bridges: Discovering the biology underlying graft compatibility
AA Research Talks
Monday, April 10, 2023, 12:30 pm
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Nidhi Vinod

PhD Student, University of California, Los Angeles
2021 DaRin Butz Intern

There will be two 20 min talks during today’s seminar. Zoom link is for all talks.

Plant ecophysiology micro to macro
AA Research Talks
Monday, April 10, 2023, 12:10 pm
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Liam Cleary

PhD Student, Clark University
2019 DaRin Butz Intern

There will be two 20 min talks during today’s seminar. Zoom link is for all talks.

Perspective on the genetic plasticity and diversity of the fungal genus Basidiobolus
HUH Seminar Series
Tuesday, April 4, 2023, 12:00 pm
Michael Bradshaw

HUH Research Fellow

Title: TBA
AA Research Talks
Monday, March 27, 2023, 12:10 pm

Senior Scientist at the Harvard Forest

The ecosystem responses of concurrent biotic and climatic disturbances in New England forests
HUH Seminar Series
Tuesday, March 21, 2023, 12:00 pm
Wayne M Jurick II

Research Plant Pathologist
USDA Agricultural Research Service

An intriguing tale of a non-host specific mycotoxin: Plant cell death, ecological impacts, active efflux and leveraging culture collections for plant-fungal-microbe-interactions
HUH Seminar Series
Tuesday, March 7, 2023, 12:00 pm
Pablo Moroni

Postdoctoral Fellow, Instituto de Botánica Darwinion

Stirring up a hornet’s nest: Taxonomic revision of Cryptantha Lehm. ex G.Don, an intriguing genus from the Boraginaceae s. str.
AA Research Talks
Monday, February 27, 2023, 12:10 pm
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PhD Student, Taylor Lab, Harvard University
Fellow of the Arnold Arboretum

There will be two 20 min talks during today’s seminar.

Root exudates as hidden mediators of soil carbon storage
AA Research Talks
Monday, February 27, 2023, 12:10 pm
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Christina Steinecke

PhD Student, Hopkins Lab, Harvard University
Fellow of the Arnold Arboretum

There will be two 20 min talks during today’s seminar.

Selection and genetic constraints on clonal investment in a perennial plant
HUH Seminar Series
Tuesday, February 21, 2023, 12:00 pm
Natalia Pabon-Mora

Associate Professor, University of Antioquia
Visiting Fulbright Fellow

Dissecting holoparasitic plants: evo-devo case studies in Cucurbitales and Piperales
AA Research Talks
Monday, February 13, 2023, 12:10 pm

Assistant Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University

Understanding and harnessing the diversity of plant metabolism
HUH Seminar Series
Tuesday, January 24, 2023, 12:00 pm
Matthew Koski

Assistant Professor, Clemson University

Using herbaria to examine the drivers of spatiotemporal patterns in flower color

2022

HUH Seminar Series
Tuesday, December 6, 2022, 12:00 pm
Alexandra Z. Worden

Professor of Ocean EcoSystems Biology, GEOMAR
Visiting Scholar in Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University

A look into the world's tiniest plants and their importance in the ocean
AA Research Talks
Monday, November 28, 2022, 12:10 pm
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Postdoctoral fellow, Boston University and Hokkaido University, Japan

Mycorrhizal fungal effects on biogeochemical cycling and free-living microbial communities under global changes
HUH Seminar Series
Tuesday, November 22, 2022, 12:00 pm
Dawson White

National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Biology
Negaunee Integrative Research Center, The Field Museum, Chicago
Associate, Harvard University Herbaria

Collections-based phylogenomics and spectral classification of the coca clade (Erythroxylaceae)
AA Research Talks
Monday, November 14, 2022, 12:10 pm
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Research Professor, IHSM la Mayora, Spain
Visiting Scholar of the Arnold Arboretum

Where have all the flowers gone? Understanding the extremely low fruit to flower ratio in avocado
AA Research Talks
Monday, October 31, 2022, 12:10 pm
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Assistant Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Visiting Scholar Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University

The physiological control of growth rate variation, and some observations about GxE
HUH Seminar Series
Tuesday, September 27, 2022, 12:00 pm
Antonio Currais

Staff Scientist, CNB-S, Salk Institute for Biological Studies

Developing new treatments for dementia from plants - The value of herbarium collections
AA Research Talks
Friday, August 5, 2022, 11:00 am
DaRin Butz Foundation Undergraduate Research Program Summer Presentations
AA Research Talks
Monday, May 23, 2022, 12:10 pm
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Research Assistant Professor
University of Tennessee

Re-collections of diversity: Across the plant kingdom and beyond
AA Research Talks
Monday, April 25, 2022, 12:10 pm
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Izzy Acevedo

Research assistant in the Hopkins Lab

There will be three 10 min talks during today’s seminar. Zoom link is for all three talks.

Sakura storytellers: Cherry blossoms as indicators of change in more-than-human environments
AA Research Talks
Monday, April 25, 2022, 12:10 pm
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Lauren Church

Research assistant in the Taylor Lab

Sharing vs. sparing in the rhizosphere: Ecosystem impacts and nutrient dynamics of Xanthobacter autotrophicus biofertilizer
AA Research Talks
Monday, April 25, 2022, 12:10 pm
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Ellie Mendelson

Research assistant in the Friedman Lab

 

Filling in the gaps: The genetic network of fruit development in Austrobaileya scandens and Illicium floridanum
HUH Seminar Series
Tuesday, April 19, 2022, 12:00 pm
John White

PhD Candidate, Anthropology
Tulane University

Indigenous conceptualizations of and interactions with plant reproduction, domestication, and diversification
AA Research Talks
Monday, April 11, 2022, 12:10 pm
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Al Kovaleski

Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin, Madison
2019 Putnam Fellow

Studying dormancy through a cold hardiness lens: are differences in dormancy real?
HUH Seminar Series
Tuesday, April 5, 2022, 12:00 pm
Luis Quijada

Farlow Fellow
Harvard University

Tales of Leotiomycetes
AA Research Talks
Monday, March 28, 2022, 12:10 pm
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Rebecca (Becky) Povilus

Postdoctoral Fellow, Whitehead Institute, MIT
PhD Graduate from the Friedman Lab

Using water lilies to illuminate the evolution of seeds
AA Research Talks
Monday, March 14, 2022, 12:10 pm
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Anna Feller

Swiss National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow, Hopkins Lab
Harvard University

On the genetic architecture of an adaptive radiation
AA Research Talks
Monday, February 14, 2022, 12:10 pm
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Visiting Assistant Professor, Swarthmore College 2018 Putnam Fellow

From trees to forests: The maples as a model of global change

2021

AA Research Talks
Monday, November 29, 2021, 12:10 pm

Assistant Professor, University of Massachusetts, Lowell

Nature-based solutions to climate change?
AA Research Talks
Monday, November 15, 2021, 11:30 am

Professor and Department Head, University of Connecticut

The botany of a Thanksgiving dinner
AA Research Talks
Monday, November 1, 2021, 12:10 pm

Arboretum Putnam Fellow

Genomic and climatic factors behind leaf syndrome convergence in Viburnum (Adoxaceae)
AA Research Talks
Friday, October 15, 2021, 12:00 pm

NOAA Climate and Global Change Postdoctoral Fellow

The abiotic and biotic controls of symbiotic nitrogen fixation in Neotropical canopy gaps
AA Research Talks
Monday, October 4, 2021, 12:10 pm

Arboretum Putnam Fellow

Cranberry bud cold hardiness: Survival mechanisms, dynamics, and methodological advances.
HUH Seminar Series
Tuesday, September 28, 2021, 12:00 pm
Yujing Yan

HUH Fellow

The evolution and biogeography of the tea family (Theaceae): From the past to the future
HUH Seminar Series
Tuesday, September 14, 2021, 12:00 pm
Michael Bradshaw

HUH Fellow

Reconstructing the worldwide epidemic spread of powdery mildews by sequencing herbarium specimens
AA Research Talks
Friday, August 6, 2021, 11:00 am
DaRin Butz Foundation Undergraduate Research Program Summer Presentations
AA Research Talks
Monday, April 19, 2021, 12:10 pm
Andrea Berardi

HUH Fellow, Hopkins Lab

The role of flavonoids in plant evolution: from local adaptation to speciation
HUH Seminar Series
Tuesday, April 6, 2021, 12:00 pm
Madelynn von Baeyer

Postdoctoral Researcher, Spengler Lab, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History

Shining a light on the slides from the Bailey-Wetmore Wood Collection
AA Research Talks
Monday, March 22, 2021, 12:00 pm

Tree Root Biologist, Center for Tree Science, Morton Arboretum

Linking belowground phenology to ecosystem processes in the real world and in models
HUH Seminar Series
Tuesday, March 16, 2021, 12:00 pm
Tanisha M. Williams

Burpee Postdoctoral Fellow in Botany, Biology Department, Bucknell University

Conserving biodiversity in the age of anthropogenic climate change: From South Africa to Australia
HUH Seminar Series
Tuesday, February 9, 2021, 12:00 pm
Jennifer Brown

Collection Manager, Ware Collection of Blaschka Glass Models of Plants, Harvard University
Natalja Kent, Photographer

Photographing the Glass Flowers

2020

AA Research Talks
Monday, November 23, 2020, 12:10 pm

Postdoctoral Fellow, OEB, Taylor Lab, Fellow of the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University

Fix the global nitrogen cycle: from forests to agricultural landscapes
HUH Seminar Series
Tuesday, November 10, 2020, 12:00 pm
Aviwe Matiwane

PhD Candidate, ADP Tutor, Rhodes University

Power Plants: Investigations of a Glossopteris flora near Sutherland, South Africa
AA Research Talks
Monday, October 26, 2020, 12:10 pm

Postdoctoral Fellow, OEB, Hopkins Lab, Fellow of the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University

The role of transposable elements in reproductive isolation
HUH Seminar Series
Tuesday, October 6, 2020, 12:00 pm
David Moreno Mateos

Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture, Harvard University Graduate School of Design

The recovery of ecosystem complexity from ancient human impacts
HUH Seminar Series
Tuesday, September 29, 2020, 12:00 pm
Hong Ma

Professor of Biology, Huck Distinguished Research Professor of Plant Molecular Biology, Associate Dean for Research and Innovation, Pennsylvania State University

Nuclear phylogenomics and WGD analyses of Rosaceae and other angiosperm families and implication on fruit type evolution
AA Research Talks
Monday, March 9, 2020, 12:10 pm
Daniel Short Gianotti

Postdoctoral researcher, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Water limitation and vegetated ecosystem responses
AA Research Talks
Monday, March 2, 2020, 12:10 pm
Rebecca Y. Kartzinel

Assistant Professor and Director, Brown University Herbarium

Drivers of adaptation and diversity in plant populations
AA Research Talks
Monday, February 24, 2020, 12:10 pm
Yaowu Yuan

Associate Professor, University of Connecticut

Genetics, development, and evolution of pigmentation patterns in monkey flowers (Mimulus)
AA Research Talks
Monday, February 10, 2020, 12:10 pm
Brook Moyers

Assistant Professor, University of Massachusetts, Boston

Dynamic quantitative genetics in rice under stress
AA Research Talks
Monday, February 3, 2020, 12:10 pm
Don Pfister

Professor and Curator, Harvard University

Adventures in the uttermost part of the Earth: Fungi, plants and biogeography
AA Research Talks
Monday, January 27, 2020, 12:10 pm
Erin Sparks

Assistant Professor, University of Delaware

The development and function of stem-borne roots in maize

2019

AA Research Talks
Monday, December 2, 2019, 12:10 pm
Deren Eaton

Assistant Professor, Columbia University

Isolation, interference, and introgression: Genomic perspectives on plant diversification
AA Research Talks
Monday, November 25, 2019, 12:10 pm
Eric von Wettberg

Assistant Professor, University of Vermont

Chickpeas, peas, and lentils: A contemporary take on Vavilov’s homologous series
AA Research Talks
Monday, November 18, 2019, 12:10 pm
Peter Del Tredici

Senior Research Scientist Emeritus, Arnold Arboretum

100 years of Stewartia research at the Arnold Arboretum
AA Research Talks
Monday, November 4, 2019, 12:10 pm
Wendy Clement

Associate Professor, The College of New Jersey; Arnold Arboretum Jewett Prize recipient

Integrating leaf and seed morphometrics with phylogeny to study the evolutionary history of reproductive ecology in the Dipsacales
AA Research Talks
Monday, October 28, 2019, 12:10 pm
Alison Brody

Professor, University of Vermont

Interactions above and below ground affect plants and their pollinators
AA Research Talks
Monday, October 21, 2019, 12:10 pm
Louise Lewis

Professor, University of Connecticut

Overview of green algal evolution, with a focus on the transitions to land
AA Research Talks
Monday, October 7, 2019, 12:10 pm
Scott McAdam

Assistant Professor, Purdue University

Forget roots, leaves are the main site of abscisic acid biosynthesis
AA Research Talks
Monday, September 30, 2019, 12:10 pm
Anne Short Gianotti

Associate Professor, Boston University; Harvard Forest Bullard Fellow

The politics and ecology of suburban deer, forests, and people
AA Research Talks
Monday, September 23, 2019, 12:10 pm
James Crall

Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University

Social resilience: Understanding how environmental stressors impact the behavior and health of bees
AA Research Talks
Monday, September 16, 2019, 12:10 pm
Samridhi Chaturvedi

Postdoctoral fellow, Hopkins Lab

Quantifying the predictability of evolution at the genomic level in Lycaeides butterflies
AA Research Talks
Monday, September 9, 2019, 12:10 pm
Al Kovaleski

Arboretum Putnam Fellow

Winter physiology matters
AA Research Talks
Monday, August 5, 2019, 12:00 pm
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2019 DaRin Butz Interns
DaRin Butz Foundation Undergraduate Research Program Summer Presentations
AA Research Talks
Monday, June 10, 2019, 12:00 pm
William (Ned) Friedman

Director and Faculty Fellow of the Arnold Arboretum; Arnold Professor, Harvard University

Asa Gray, Charles Darwin and the discovery of Eastern Asia – eastern North America woody plant disjuncts
AA Research Talks
Monday, April 8, 2019, 12:00 pm
Shu-Mei Chang

Professor, University of Georgia

Maintenance of variation in sex expression in the wild geranium, Geranium maculatum
AA Research Talks
Monday, April 1, 2019, 12:00 pm
Evan Preisser

Professor & Chair, University of Rhode Island

Just how friendly IS my enemy's enemy? Herbivore-herbivore interactions on eastern hemlock
AA Research Talks
Monday, March 25, 2019, 12:00 pm
Paul Manos

Professor, Duke University

Mighty oaks from little acorns grow: phylogenomic data add new branches to the Quercus tree of life
AA Research Talks
Monday, March 11, 2019, 12:00 pm
Mark Ashton

Professor and Director of School Forests, Yale University

Understanding principle mechanisms of tropical forest degradation with application to their restoration
AA Research Talks
Monday, February 25, 2019, 12:00 pm
Spencer Barrett

University Professor Emeritus, University of Toronto

Reproductive evolution across geographical ranges
AA Research Talks
Monday, February 4, 2019, 12:00 pm
Avalon Owens

PhD Student, Tufts University Arboretum Cunin/Sigal Award Recipient

Strangers in the night: Will light pollution lead to firefly declines?
AA Research Talks
Monday, January 28, 2019, 12:00 pm
Juliette de Meaux

Professor, University of Cologne, Germany

The double threat of habitat shrinking and gene flow to Arabis nemorensis: a genomics study

2018

AA Research Talks
Monday, December 3, 2018, 12:00 pm
Andrew Groover

Research Geneticist, USDA Forest Service

Embracing the complexity of nature –genomic approaches for understanding the development and evolution of forest trees
AA Research Talks
Monday, November 26, 2018, 12:00 pm
Margaret Grose

Senior Lecturer in Landscape Architecture, University of Melbourne Arboretum Sargent Award Recipient

EH Wilson's "another planet"— Australia’s plants, global differences, and landscape architecture
AA Research Talks
Wednesday, November 21, 2018, 6:00 pm
Pam Diggle

Professor and Associate Department Head, University of Connecticut

The botany of Thanksgiving (dinner)
AA Research Talks
Monday, November 5, 2018, 12:10 pm
Robin Hopkins

Assistant Professor, OEB, Harvard University and Faculty Fellow, Arnold Arboretum

The evolution of mate choice to avoid hybridization in plants
AA Research Talks
Monday, October 29, 2018, 12:10 pm
Monica Geber

Professor, Cornell University

Ecology and evolution of species range limits
AA Research Talks
Monday, October 22, 2018, 12:10 pm
Graham Dow

Research Assistant Professor, Boston University

Understanding the relationships between stomatal development, leaf function, and environmental response
AA Research Talks
Monday, October 15, 2018, 12:10 pm
Hilary Callahan

Professor, Bernard College, Columbia University

UnPAK – Undergraduates Phenotyping Arabidopsis Knockouts: Engaging hands, eyes and brains in the age of automation
AA Research Talks
Monday, October 1, 2018, 12:10 pm
Stephanie Conway

Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University, Kramer Lab

LEAFY function in the model fern Ceratopteris richardii: reconstructing the ancestral role of a flowering meristem identity gene
AA Research Talks
Monday, September 24, 2018, 12:10 pm
Jenica Allen

Affiliate Assistant Professor, University of New Hampshire

Invasive plant challenges and opportunities in the U.S.
AA Research Talks
Monday, September 17, 2018, 12:00 pm
Rick Harper

Extension Associate Professor, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Aligning production methods & urban tree planting objectives
AA Research Talks
Monday, September 10, 2018, 12:10 pm
Jake Grossman

Arboretum Putnam Fellow

The mystery of Smith’s aspen: uncovering the genetic identity and climate change vulnerability of a hybrid Pleistocene relic
AA Research Talks
Monday, August 27, 2018, 12:00 pm
2018 DaRin Butz Interns

DaRin Butz Foundation Undergraduate Research Program Summer Presentations

DaRin Butz Foundation Undergraduate Research Program Summer Presentations
AA Research Talks
Monday, April 30, 2018, 12:00 pm
Jill Miller

Professor, Amherst College

Reproductive variation within species: evolutionary transitions in sexual strategy and mating system in Lycium (Solanaceae)
AA Research Talks
Monday, April 23, 2018, 12:00 pm
Federico Roda

Postdoctoral Fellow, Hopkins Lab

Sexual choices and evolution in Texas: The Phlox story
AA Research Talks
Monday, April 16, 2018, 12:00 pm
David Basler

Charles Bullard Fellow, Harvard University Arnold Arboretum Sargent Award Recipient

A bird’s-eye view on tree phenology at the Arnold Arboretum
AA Research Talks
Monday, April 9, 2018, 12:00 pm
Kyle Dexter

Lecturer, University of Edinburgh Research Associate, Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh

The importance of biomes in macroevolutionary and macroecological studies
AA Research Talks
Monday, April 2, 2018, 12:00 pm
Nina Bassuk

Professor, Cornell University

Tree selection in the inner city
AA Research Talks
Monday, March 26, 2018, 12:00 pm
Marjorie Lundgren

Postdoctoral Fellow, MIT

Ecological transitions during the evolution of C4 photosynthesis
AA Research Talks
Monday, March 19, 2018, 12:00 pm
Bruce McClure

Professor, University of Missouri

Mechanisms and patterns of interspecific pollen rejection in Solanum
AA Research Talks
Monday, March 5, 2018, 12:00 pm
Sean Gleason

Research Plant Physiologist, USDA-ARS Water Management Research Unit

Improving the drought tolerance of crop and timber species: physiological and evolutionary perspectives
AA Research Talks
Monday, February 26, 2018, 12:00 pm
Boris Igic

Associate Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago

The history and consequences of self-incompatibility
AA Research Talks
Monday, February 12, 2018, 12:00 pm
Morgan Moeglein

Graduate Student, Edwards Lab, Yale University

Leaf trait evolution in Viburnum
AA Research Talks
Monday, February 5, 2018, 12:00 pm
Elizabeth Spriggs

Arnold Arboretum Putnam Fellow

Phylogeography of North American Viburnum using RADseq data
AA Research Talks
Monday, January 29, 2018, 12:00 pm
William (Ned) Friedman

Arnold Professor, Harvard University and Arnold Arboretum Faculty Fellow

Sibling cooperation and interparental conflict in a seed: how plant mothers, fathers, and siblings behave during the act of reproduction in flowering plants
AA Research Talks
Monday, January 22, 2018, 12:00 pm
Jim Kellner

Assistant Professor, Brown University

High-resolution remote sensing and population dynamics in a low-density tree population

2017

AA Research Talks
Monday, December 11, 2017, 12:00 pm
Sonia Sultan

Professor, Wesleyan University

Plasticity in Polygonum: eco-devo insights to adaptive diversity
AA Research Talks
Monday, December 4, 2017, 12:00 pm
Anurag Agrawal

Professor, Cornell University

Trade-offs in evolutionary ecology
AA Research Talks
Monday, November 27, 2017, 12:00 pm
Isabelle Chuine

CNRS Research Director at the Centre d’Ecologie Fonctionnelle Evolutive, France Harvard Forest Bullard Fellow

Let the niche be functional: a process-based approach of the niche to forecast the fate of species in future climate
AA Research Talks
Monday, November 13, 2017, 12:00 pm
Jason Londo

Research Geneticist, USDA-ARS Grape Genetics Unit

Growing grapes in the snow: Understanding the intersections between genetics, physiology, and climate
AA Research Talks
Monday, November 6, 2017, 12:00 pm
Tim Savas

Technical Associate, MIT Media Lab

Digital farming: Exploring the intersection of computation, biology, and photography at the MIT Media Lab
AA Research Talks
Monday, October 30, 2017, 12:00 pm
Richard Olmstead

Professor, University of Washington

Neotropical biogeography and dispersal: Examples from the Lamiales
AA Research Talks
Friday, October 20, 2017, 12:00 pm
David Baum

Professor, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Phylogenomic insights into the evolutionary history of baobabs (Adansonia; Malvaceae)
AA Research Talks
Monday, October 16, 2017, 12:00 pm
M. Alejandra Gandolfo-Nixon

Senior Research Associate, Cornell University

Darwin’s "Damned Land", A.K.A. Patagonia: A paleo(neo)botanist's paradise
AA Research Talks
Wednesday, October 11, 2017, 12:00 pm
Mark Westoby

Australian Laureate Professor, Macquarie University, Australia

The trajectory of plant trait ecology
AA Research Talks
Monday, October 2, 2017, 12:00 pm
Jeannine Cavender-Bares

Professor, University of Minnesota

Diversification, adaptation and community assembly of the American oaks (Quercus): a model clade for integrating ecology and evolution
AA Research Talks
Monday, September 25, 2017, 12:00 pm
Barnabas Daru

Post-doctoral Fellow, Davis Lab

Putting phylogenetic biogeography on the map
AA Research Talks
Monday, September 18, 2017, 12:00 pm
Pat Edger

Assistant Professor, Michigan State University

The role of gene and genome duplications in network evolution
AA Research Talks
Monday, September 11, 2017, 12:00 pm
Jacob Suissa

PhD Student, Friedman Lab

Reticulate evolution and cryptic parentage in North American Isoëtes
AA Research Talks
Monday, August 28, 2017, 12:00 pm
2017 DaRin Butz Interns
DaRin Butz Foundation Undergraduate Research Program Summer Presentations
AA Research Talks
Wednesday, June 14, 2017, 12:00 pm
Aureliano Bombarely

Assistant Professor, Virginia Tech

Study of the plant evolution and domestication using 18th Century floral crops as models
AA Research Talks
Monday, May 15, 2017, 12:00 pm
Peter Del Tredici

Senior Scientist Emeritus, Arnold Arboretum

Thomas Hogg and the early introduction of Japanese plants into North America
AA Research Talks
Monday, May 8, 2017, 12:00 pm
Plant Biology Initiative Symposium
Stomata: Evolution, development and physiology
AA Research Talks
Monday, May 1, 2017, 12:00 pm
Anette Freytag

Associate Professor, Rutgers University

Swiss Landscape Architect Dieter Kienast´s love for spontaneous urban vegetation
AA Research Talks
Monday, April 24, 2017, 12:00 pm
Stephen Decina

Graduate student, Boston University; Arnold Arboretum Deland Award Recipient

Atmospheric Deposition and Soil Nutrient Cycling in Boston: Urban Effects on Biogeochemical Cycles
AA Research Talks
Monday, April 17, 2017, 12:00 pm
Willam Powell

Professor, State University of New York

Strategies to develop the new American chestnut
AA Research Talks
Monday, April 10, 2017, 12:00 pm
Steve Franks

Associate Professor, Fordham University

Selection by drought causes rapid genome-wide evolution in Brassica rapa
AA Research Talks
Monday, March 27, 2017, 12:00 pm
Susanne Renner

Professor and Chair, Ludwig Maximilians University Munich

Are asymmetric invasion patterns in the Northern hemisphere explained by phenological differences among the woody plants of Asia, Europe, and North America?
AA Research Talks
Friday, March 24, 2017, 12:00 pm
Robert Ricklefs

Curators’ Professor, University of Missouri at St. Louis

Natural history and the nature of ecological communities
AA Research Talks
Monday, March 6, 2017, 12:00 pm
Jill Preston

Assistant Professor, University of Vermont

Developmental Mechanisms Underlying Plant Transitions from Tropical to Temperate Regions
AA Research Talks
Monday, February 27, 2017, 12:00 pm
Karen James

Independent researcher, Adjunct Faculty, Schoodic Institute at Acadia National Park

My adventures with Charles Darwin
AA Research Talks
Monday, February 6, 2017, 12:00 pm
Heather Briggs

Arboretum post-doctoral fellow, Hopkins Lab

Causes and consequences of pollinator foraging behavior
AA Research Talks
Monday, January 30, 2017, 12:00 pm
Liam Dolan

Professor, University of Oxford

Development and evolution of land plant rooting systems
AA Research Talks
Monday, January 23, 2017, 12:00 pm
Daniel Woods

Post-doctoral fellow, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Dissecting the control of flowering time in grasses using Brachypodium distachyon

2016

AA Research Talks
Monday, December 12, 2016, 12:00 pm
Jacquelyn Gill

Assistant Professor, University of Maine

Once and future forests: a four-dimensional perspective on plant community response to global change
AA Research Talks
Monday, December 5, 2016, 12:00 pm
Daniel Buonaiuto

Graduate Student, Wolkovich Lab

Outcrossing and fecundity in Pennsylvania Sedge: implications for ecological restoration
AA Research Talks
Monday, November 21, 2016, 12:00 pm
Jerry Mitrovica

Frank B. Baird, Jr. Professor of Science, Harvard University

Taking the fingerprints of global sea level rise
AA Research Talks
Monday, November 14, 2016, 12:00 pm
Patricia Gensel

Professor, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Delving into the Devonian: new discoveries and new interpretations of some Early Devonian plants
AA Research Talks
Monday, November 7, 2016, 12:00 pm
Madelaine Bartlett

Assistant Professor, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Floral development and evolution in the monocots
AA Research Talks
Monday, October 31, 2016, 12:00 pm
Jonathan Davies

Associate Professor, McGill University, Canada

Underground forests, savanna and the relationship between trees and people in southern Africa
AA Research Talks
Monday, October 24, 2016, 12:00 pm
Fernanda Valdovinos

Post-doctoral researcher, University of Arizona

Novel effects of plant biology and animal behavior on plant-pollinator networks
AA Research Talks
Monday, October 17, 2016, 12:00 pm
Lori Shapiro

Harvard post-doctoral fellow, Pierce Lab

Evolution of an old world pathogen to a new world host
AA Research Talks
Monday, October 3, 2016, 12:00 pm
Michael Singer

Professor, University of Plymouth

One butterfly species tumbles off an adaptive peak and enters a lethal trap in the course of six host shifts observed across half a century
AA Research Talks
Monday, September 26, 2016, 12:00 pm
Adam Roddy

Post-doctoral researcher, Yale University Arnold Arboretum Jewett Prize Recipient

Title: TBAA physiological approach to the ecology and evolution of flowers
AA Research Talks
Monday, September 19, 2016, 12:00 pm
Kasia Zieminska

Arnold Arboretum Putnam Fellow

Wood density, anatomy and ecological strategies across angiosperm trees from Australia
AA Research Talks
Monday, September 12, 2016, 12:00 pm
Jesse Lasky

Assistant Professor, Penn State

Plant responses to climate from genomic to community levels
AA Research Talks
Tuesday, July 26, 2016, 12:00 pm
Kuo-Fang Chung

Associate Research Fellow, Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taiwan

A holistic picture of Austronesian migrations revealed by phylogeography of Pacific paper mulberry
AA Research Talks
Monday, May 9, 2016, 12:00 pm
Dennis Stevenson

Vice President for Laboratory Research, New York Botanic Garden

Linking 1KP (1000 plant initiative) back to plant biology, some evo/devo possibilities
AA Research Talks
Monday, May 2, 2016, 12:00 pm
Plant Biology Initiative Symposium
The origin and early evolution of photosynthetic life
AA Research Talks
Monday, April 25, 2016, 12:00 pm
Michael Purugganan

Professor, New York University

The evolution of crop species: Insights from genomics to archaeology
AA Research Talks
Tuesday, April 19, 2016, 12:00 pm
Richard Olsen

Director, U.S. National Arboretum

Collections-based research at the U.S. National Arboretum
AA Research Talks
Monday, April 18, 2016, 12:00 pm
Stephen Keller

Assistant Professor, University of Vermont

Landscape genomics of climate adaptation in Populus
AA Research Talks
Thursday, April 7, 2016, 12:00 pm
Yann Vitasse

Post-doctoral Fellow, University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland

Seasonality and cold hardiness of temperate tree species under global warming
AA Research Talks
Monday, March 21, 2016, 12:00 pm
Bernard Goffinet

Professor, University of Connecticut

Evolutionary history of mosses
AA Research Talks
Monday, March 7, 2016, 12:00 pm
Amy Brunner

Associate Professor, Virginia Tech

Functional genomics of growth and dormancy transitions in Populus
AA Research Talks
Monday, February 29, 2016, 12:00 pm
William (Ned) Friedman

Arnold Professor and Director, Arnold Arboretum

Why not Wallace (or Matthew, Wells, or Hutton)? The case for Darwin’s place in history
AA Research Talks
Monday, February 22, 2016, 12:00 pm
Florian Schiestl

Professor, University of Zurich

Ecology and evolution of floral signals in plants
AA Research Talks
Monday, February 1, 2016, 12:00 pm
Mark Anderson

Director of Conservation Science, The Nature Conservancy’s Eastern U.S. Region

Conserving Nature’s stage: climate change and the geophysical underpinnings of biodiversity
AA Research Talks
Monday, January 25, 2016, 12:00 pm
Peter Del Tredici

Arnold Arboretum and Harvard Graduate School of Design

Aging, rejuvenation and resilience in trees

2015

AA Research Talks
Monday, December 14, 2015, 12:00 pm
Carla Staver

Assistant Professor, Yale University

Positive Feedback and the Global Distribution of Biomes
AA Research Talks
Monday, December 7, 2015, 12:00 pm
Lynn Adler

Associate Professor, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Flowering plants mediating transmission of a common bumble bee pathogen
AA Research Talks
Monday, November 30, 2015, 12:00 pm
Chase Mason

Arnold Arboretum Putnam Fellow

Reconstructing the evolution of leaf trait seasonality across the dogwoods (Cornus)
AA Research Talks
Monday, November 23, 2015, 12:00 pm
Elisabeth Forrestel

Arboretum post-doctoral fellow, Wolkovich Lab

Biogeographic influences on grassland community structure and function
AA Research Talks
Monday, November 16, 2015, 12:00 pm
Danielle Ignace

Assistant Professor, Smith College

Friend or foe? Evidence of an unconventional role for invasive species
AA Research Talks
Monday, November 9, 2015, 12:00 pm
Joseph Williams

Professor, University of Tennessee

Pines, orchids and oaks – some thoughts on slow fertilization syndromes
AA Research Talks
Monday, November 2, 2015, 12:00 pm
Dan Papaj

Professor, University of Arizona

Pollen and pollinators: the forgotten floral reward
AA Research Talks
Monday, October 26, 2015, 12:00 pm
Eric Goolsby

Arnold Arboretum Visiting Fellow; PhD Candidate, University of Georgia

Evolution of heavy metal hyperaccumulation in wild sunflowers (Helianthus)
AA Research Talks
Monday, October 19, 2015, 12:00 pm
Andrew Leslie

Assistant Professor, Brown University

The phylogenetic geography of conifer diversity
AA Research Talks
Monday, October 5, 2015, 12:00 pm
Kevin Wright

NIH NRSA Fellow, OEB Bomblies Lab

Mimulus guttatus adapt to copper mine habitat via selection on pre-existing genetic variation
AA Research Talks
Monday, September 28, 2015, 12:00 pm
Gregório Ceccantini

Assistant Professor, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil

Plant vampires: effects of parasitic plants in wood and bark form and function
AA Research Talks
Monday, September 21, 2015, 12:00 pm
Rosetta Sarah Elkin

Assistant Professor, Harvard Graduate School of Design

Beyond restoration: planting coastal infrastructure
AA Research Talks
Monday, April 27, 2015, 12:00 pm
Peter Del Tredici

Arnold Arboretum and Harvard Graduate School of Design

Urban Nature / Human Nature
AA Research Talks
Monday, April 20, 2015, 12:00 pm
Theresa Culley

Associate Professor, University of Cincinnati

Ornamentals Gone Wild: How Horticulture Contributed to Invasion of the Callery Pear Tree
AA Research Talks
Monday, April 13, 2015, 12:00 pm
Barry Logan

Professor, Bowdoin College

Decline of dwarf mistletoe-infected white spruce forests along the Maine coast: mechanisms of mortality and the legacy of land use
AA Research Talks
Monday, April 6, 2015, 12:00 am
Brian McGill

Associate Professor, University of Maine

Three unusual views of community assembly
AA Research Talks
Monday, March 30, 2015, 12:00 pm
Cynthia Jones

Professor, University of Connecticut

Leaf ecology in the highly diverse South Africa genus Pelargonium
AA Research Talks
Monday, March 9, 2015, 12:00 pm
Nathan Phillips

Professor, Boston University

What cities can learn from trees
AA Research Talks
Monday, March 2, 2015, 12:00 pm
Diana Bernal

PhD Candidate, University of Queensland, Australia

Leaf shape natural variation: environmental effects and genetic architecture in Senecio lautus
AA Research Talks
Monday, February 23, 2015, 12:00 pm
Jannice Friedman

Assistant Professor, Syracuse University

Evolutionary transitions in plant reproductive strategies
AA Research Talks
Monday, February 9, 2015, 12:00 pm
Stephen Tonsor

Associate Professor, University of Pittsburgh

Adaptation to climate and elevation in Spanish Arabidopsis
AA Research Talks
Monday, February 2, 2015, 12:00 pm
William (Ned) Friedman

Arnold Professor, Arnold Arboretum and Organismic and Evolutionary Biology

Darwin’s “abominable mystery” and the search for the first flowering plants
AA Research Talks
Monday, January 26, 2015, 12:00 pm
Jeremiah Busch

Assistant Professor, Washington State University

Automatic selection and the evolution of self-fertilization

2014

AA Research Talks
Tuesday, December 9, 2014, 12:00 pm
John (Mac) Marston

Assistant Professor, Boston University

Plant ecology and agricultural sustainability in ancient Turkey
AA Research Talks
Monday, December 1, 2014, 12:00 pm
Daniel Otiz-Barrientos

Senior Lecturer (Assistant Professor), The University of Queensland, Australia

Sexual selection drives the evolution of reproductive isolation in flowering plants
AA Research Talks
Monday, November 24, 2014, 12:00 pm
Dov Sax

Associate Professor, Brown University

Species invasions, niche relationships, and plant conservation
AA Research Talks
Monday, November 17, 2014, 12:00 pm
Colin Orians

Professor, Tufts University

Two invasive herbivores are better than one: How elongate hemlock scale protects eastern hemlock from the woolly adelgid
AA Research Talks
Monday, November 10, 2014, 12:00 pm
Stacey Leight Young

Arnold Arboretum Putnam Fellow

Traits of North American and Asian lianas: insights into liana ecology
AA Research Talks
Monday, November 3, 2014, 12:00 pm
Ana Caicedo

Associate Professor, UMass Amherst

Adaptation, convergence, and the evolution of weediness: the case of red rice
AA Research Talks
Monday, October 27, 2014, 12:00 pm
Federico Roda

Arnold Arboretum Post-doctoral Fellow, Hopkins Lab

Divergence and convergence in Australian groundsels
AA Research Talks
Monday, October 20, 2014, 12:00 pm
Sevan Suni

Arnold Arboretum Post-doctoral Fellow, Hopkins Lab

Conservation genetics of pollination systems
HUH Seminar Series
Tuesday, October 14, 2014, 12:00 pm
Dylan Burge

Assistant Curator, California Academy of Sciences

Seeing the forest for the trees: quantitative floristics in western North America
AA Research Talks
Monday, October 6, 2014, 12:00 pm
Brian Kane

Associate Professor of Commercial Arboriculture, UMass Amherst

Parameters that affect the probability of failure of red oak
AA Research Talks
Monday, September 29, 2014, 12:00 pm
Jessica Savage

Arnold Arboretum Putnam Fellow

Ecological implications of whole plant physiology from leaf to root
AA Research Talks
Monday, September 22, 2014, 12:00 pm
Adán Colón-Carmona

Associate Professor, UMass Boston

Plant growth control: The role of a novel Arabidopsis thaliana kinesin in the progression of mitosis and meiosis
AA Research Talks
Monday, September 15, 2014, 12:00 pm
Neil Pederson

Harvard Forest

Trees, their take on environmental history, and what we can learn from them
AA Research Talks
Monday, September 8, 2014, 12:00 pm
Dan Flynn

Arnold Arboretum Research Associate, Wolkovich Lab

A holistic picture of Austronesian migrations revealed by phylogeography of Pacific paper mulberry
AA Research Talks
Monday, June 2, 2014, 12:00 pm
Russell Johnson

Associate Professor of Biology, Colby College

How plants respond to the stress hormone abscisic acid: functional analysis of the transcription factor TaABF1 during signal transduction in cereal grains
AA Research Talks
Tuesday, May 27, 2014, 12:00 pm
Juan Losada

Arnold Arboretum Post-doctoral Fellow, Friedman Lab

Reproductive biology of Nymphaea thermarum, an equatorial water lily extinct in the wild, and its development as a model system for basal angiosperms
AA Research Talks
Monday, May 19, 2014, 12:00 pm
GSD Students Harvard Graduate School of Design
Bussey Brook Meadow Research
AA Research Talks
Monday, May 12, 2014, 12:00 pm
Daniel Jacob

Vasco McCoy Family Professor, SEAS

The terrestrial biosphere and air quality
AA Research Talks
Monday, May 5, 2014, 12:00 pm
Lucy Hutyra

Assistant Professor, Boston University

Urbanization, land cover change, and the carbon cycle
AA Research Talks
Monday, April 28, 2014, 12:00 pm
Jesse Bellemare

Assistant Professor, Smith College

Plant conservation in a warming world: insights from horticulture and other biogeographical experiments
AA Research Talks
Monday, April 14, 2014, 12:00 pm
Mark Johnson

Associate Professor, Brown University

Molecular dialogs between pollen and pistil
AA Research Talks
Monday, April 14, 2014, 12:00 pm
Robin Hopkins

Assistant Professor, Arnold Arboretum and Organismic and Evolutionary Biology

The costs and benefits of reinforcement
AA Research Talks
Monday, April 7, 2014, 12:00 pm
John Silander

Professor, University of Connecticut

Understanding how plant phenology responds to climate variation: from the leaf to the landscape
AA Research Talks
Monday, March 31, 2014, 12:00 pm
Allison Miller

Associate Professor, St. Louis University

Diversity, diversification, and the genomic basis of evolution in perennial crops and their wild relatives
AA Research Talks
Monday, March 24, 2014, 12:00 pm
Michael Knoblauch

Associate Professor and Director FMIC, Washington State University

Photoassimilate distribution in large organisms
AA Research Talks
Friday, March 14, 2014, 12:00 pm
David Des Marais

Arnold Arboretum Research Associate

Gene by environment interaction and the genomic basis of local adaptation in plants
AA Research Talks
Tuesday, February 18, 2014, 12:00 pm
Lizzie Wolkovich

Assistant Professor, Arnold Arboretum and Organismic and Evolutionary Biology

Community Assembly and Dis-assembly with Global Change
AA Research Talks
Monday, February 3, 2014, 12:00 pm
Kuang-Chi Hung D.

Kim Foundation Post-doctoral Fellow

Subscribing to Specimens, Cataloging Nature: Asa Gray and a Forgotten Page in the History of Harvard Botany GSD Student Projects

2013

AA Research Talks
Monday, December 16, 2013, 12:00 pm
Marc Borrega

Post-doctoral Associate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Gibson Lab

Anatomical, structural and mechanical characterization of balsa (Ochroma pyramidale) wood
AA Research Talks
Monday, December 2, 2013, 12:00 pm
Stacey Leicht

Young Arnold Arboretum Putnam Fellow

Invasive lianas in North America: observations from the field
AA Research Talks
Monday, November 18, 2013, 12:00 pm
Callin Switzer

Graduate Student, Harvard University, Combes Lab

Vibrating bees: changes in buzz pollination frequency throughout the foraging season
AA Research Talks
Monday, October 21, 2013, 12:00 pm
David Haig

George Putnam Professor of Biology and Harvard College Professor

Filial mistletoes: functional morphology of the moss sporophyte
AA Research Talks
Monday, September 30, 2013, 12:00 pm
Bryan Connolly

Graduate Student, University of Connecticut, Brand Lab

Taxonomic relationship and germplasm exploration of the genus Aronia and Aronia x Sorbus hybrids
AA Research Talks
Monday, September 23, 2013, 12:00 pm
Ailene Ettinger

University of Washington

Testing the limits: effects of climate & competition on tree ranges in a warming world
AA Research Talks
Monday, September 9, 2013, 12:00 pm
Rosanne Healy

Sargent Award Recipient, University of Minnesota, McLaughlin Lab

Revisiting fungal “fuzz” on forest soil: old mysteries solved, new mysteries unearthed
AA Research Talks
Thursday, May 30, 2013, 12:00 pm
Steven Vogel

Research Professor, Duke University

Twisting in the Wind: Living with the Forces of Flow
AA Research Talks
Monday, May 13, 2013, 12:00 pm
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
AA Research Talks
Thursday, May 9, 2013, 12:00 pm
Kristina Stinson

Harvard Forest, Community Ecologist

Ecotypic variation in common ragweed response to climate change: something to sneeze about?
AA Research Talks
Monday, April 29, 2013, 12:00 pm
John Klironomos

Professor, Biology, University of British Columbia

Scorched earth strategy by invasive alien plants
AA Research Talks
Monday, April 22, 2013, 12:00 pm
Hazel Wetzstein

Professor, University of Georgia

The return of Elliottia racemosa to the Arnold Arboretum: An integrated approach to plant conservation
HUH Seminar Series
Tuesday, April 16, 2013, 12:00 pm
Rebecca Irwin

Dartmouth College

Anthropogenic change and the fate of pollination services
AA Research Talks
Wednesday, April 10, 2013, 12:00 pm
Juha Tuomi

Professor of Plant Ecology, University of Oulu, Finland

Conditional species interactions: antagonism vs mutualism
AA Research Talks
Monday, April 1, 2013, 12:00 pm
Larry Hufford

Professor and Director, Washington State University

Kittentails in time and space: phylogeny, diversity, and biogeography of Synthyris (Plantaginaceae)
AA Research Talks
Monday, March 25, 2013, 12:00 pm
Sarah Mathews

Arnold Arboretum Sargent Fellow

“Gymnosperms” and angiosperms—the David and Goliath of seed plant phylogenetics
AA Research Talks
Monday, March 18, 2013, 12:00 pm
Guang-you Hao

Arnold Arboretum Putnam Fellow

Linking xylem hydraulics with plant functioning: an ecological tour from tropical rainforest to desert
AA Research Talks
Monday, March 4, 2013, 12:00 pm
Simone Cappellari

Harvard University Post-doctoral Fellow, Davis Lab

Coexistence and pollination niche overlap in specialist pollinated Malpighiaceae from the Brazilian Cerrado
AA Research Talks
Tuesday, February 19, 2013, 12:00 pm
Cary Pirone

Arnold Arboretum Putnam Fellow

Pollination Drop Function in Cephalotaxus koreana and C. sinensis
AA Research Talks
Monday, February 11, 2013, 12:00 pm
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
AA Research Talks
Monday, February 4, 2013, 12:00 pm
Preeti Rao

Boston University, Hutyra Lab; Arnold Arboretum Deland Award Recipient

Atmospheric nitrogen inputs and losses along an urbanization gradient in Boston

2012

AA Research Talks
Monday, December 10, 2012, 12:00 pm
Peter Del Tredici, and Garth Holman

Arnold Arboretum and University of Maine

A new species of Tsuga from Korea
AA Research Talks
Monday, December 3, 2012, 12:00 pm
Michele Dudash

University of Maryland

Quantifying the ecological context of a nursery pollination system in a North American Silene species
AA Research Talks
Monday, November 26, 2012, 12:00 pm
Erica Fadon

Aula Dei Experimental Station–CSIC, Spain, Arboretum Visiting Fellow

Flowers in the fall: Getting ready to rest
AA Research Talks
Monday, November 19, 2012, 12:00 pm
Stephanie Conway

University of Melbourne, Arboretum Visiting Fellow

The shoot apical meristem in gymnosperms
AA Research Talks
Thursday, November 15, 2012, 12:00 pm
Barry Tomlinson

Harvard Forest E. C. Jeffrey Professor of Biology, Emeritus

Axillary branching. Where did it come from? Where did it go?
AA Research Talks
Monday, November 5, 2012, 12:00 pm
Lisa Pearson

Arnold Arboretum Horticultural Library

Trapped in a Filing Cabinet
AA Research Talks
Monday, October 22, 2012, 12:00 pm
Aaron Ellison

Harvard Forest

What do they do with all those ants? Nutrient limitation and stoichiometry of carnivorous plants
HUH Seminar Series
Tuesday, October 16, 2012, 12:00 pm
Egbert Leigh

Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama

What large forest plots can tell us about tropical forest ecology
AA Research Talks
Thursday, October 11, 2012, 12:00 pm
Daniel Chamovitz

Tel Aviv University

The complex roles of the COP9 Signalosome in regulating development
AA Research Talks
Monday, October 1, 2012, 12:00 pm
Hugh McAllister

Ness Botantic Gardens University of Liverpool

Great Mountain Ashes (Sorbus spp.): from herbarium to the living trees
AA Research Talks
Monday, September 24, 2012, 12:00 pm
Michael Marcotrigiano

Smith College, Professor and Botanic Gardens, Director

Variegations on a theme
HUH Seminar Series
Tuesday, September 18, 2012, 12:00 pm

University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Intersecting ontogenies: the evolutionary developmental origins of the pollination to fertilization process of flowering plants
AA Research Talks
Tuesday, May 29, 2012, 12:00 pm
Abby Hird

BGCI-US and AA Associate

Supporting public garden plant conservation efforts: an update from BGCI-US
AA Research Talks
Monday, May 14, 2012, 12:00 pm
Peter Del Tredici

Arnold Arboretum

The Ecology of Abandonment
AA Research Talks
Monday, May 7, 2012, 12:00 pm
Rachel Levin

Amherst College

Lycium (Solanaceae): Fruits, Flowers, and Phylogenetics
AA Research Talks
Monday, April 30, 2012, 12:00 pm
George Morris and IT team Arnold Arboretum

Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University

The Evolution of IT at the Arnold Arboretum
HUH Seminar Series
Tuesday, April 17, 2012, 12:00 pm
Erika Edwards

Brown University

A clade’s eye view of plant ecological adaptation
HUH Seminar Series
Tuesday, April 3, 2012, 12:00 pm
Rachel Spicer

Connecticut College

Making connections: Auxin transport and leaf-system vascular continuity in the model woody plant Populus
AA Research Talks
Monday, April 2, 2012, 12:00 pm
Rick Kesseli

University of Massachusetts, Boston

Sex, lies and polyploid mates: Is invasive Japanese Knotweed really the world’s largest living being?
HUH Seminar Series
Tuesday, March 27, 2012, 12:00 pm
Vivian Irish

Yale University

Regulation of petal organogenesis
AA Research Talks
Monday, March 12, 2012, 12:00 pm
Selena Ahmed

Tufts University

Impacts of Climate and Management Variability on Tea Quality and Associated Farmer Perceptions
AA Research Talks
Tuesday, February 28, 2012, 12:00 pm
Rebecca Povilus

Arnold Arboretum, Friedman Lab

Auxin and the evolution of female gametophyte development in Angiosperms
AA Research Talks
Monday, February 13, 2012, 12:00 pm
Pamela Templer

Boston University

Effects of winter climate change on northern hardwood forests
HUH Seminar Series
Tuesday, January 31, 2012, 12:00 pm
Alan Knapp

Colorado State University / Harvard Forest

Global Change and Grasslands
AA Research Talks
Monday, January 23, 2012, 12:00 pm
David Boufford

Harvard University Herbaria / Arnold Arboretum Associate

Field Studies in the Tibetan Regions of China

2011

AA Research Talks
Monday, December 19, 2011, 12:00 pm
Wenheng Zhang

Havard University, Davis Lab

Floral symmetry genes and the evolution of a plant pollinator mutualism
AA Research Talks
Monday, December 12, 2011, 12:00 pm
Anthony Brach

Missouri Botanical Garden / HUH / Arnold Arboretum

Flora of China e-Resources
AA Research Talks
Monday, December 5, 2011, 12:00 pm
Lorna Gibson

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The Hierarchical Structure and Mechanics of Plants
AA Research Talks
Monday, November 28, 2011, 12:00 pm
George C. K. Chiang

Harvard University, Kramer Lab

Role of natural alleles on developmental transitions in field grown Arabidopsis
AA Research Talks
Tuesday, November 22, 2011, 12:00 pm
Todd Forrest

Vice President for Horticulture and Living Collections, The New York Botanical Garden

Growing Impact in the Heart of The New York Botanical Garden: The Ongoing Restoration of a National Historic Landmark Landscape
AA Research Talks
Tuesday, November 15, 2011, 1:00 pm
Bharti Sharma

Harvard University, Kramer Lab

B-class gene duplication linked to novel organ identity in Aquilegia
HUH Seminar Series
Tuesday, November 15, 2011, 12:00 pm
Yuguo Wang

Harvard University, Davis Lab

Reconstructing patterns of reticulate evolution in kiwifruits
AA Research Talks
Monday, November 7, 2011, 12:00 pm
Pam Diggle

University of Connecticut and Harvard University

Multiple developmental processes underlie sex differentiation in angiosperms
AA Research Talks
Monday, October 31, 2011, 12:00 pm
David Kenfack

CTFS–SIGEO Africa Program Coordinator / Arnold Arboretum Associate

The trans-atlantic genus Carapa (Meliaceae)
AA Research Talks
Tuesday, October 25, 2011, 12:00 pm
David Lee

Florida International University

The Natural History of the North Cascades
HUH Seminar Series
Tuesday, October 18, 2011, 12:00 pm

Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History

Evolution of the biogeographic disjunctions between eastern Asia and North America
AA Research Talks
Monday, October 3, 2011, 12:00 pm
Robert Baker

University of Colorado, Boulder / Arnold Arboretum Associate

Microevolution and development of Mimulus: monkeying with meristem dynamics and heterochrony explains intraspecific changes in shoot architecture and life history
HUH Seminar Series
Tuesday, September 20, 2011, 12:00 pm

Yale University

Viburnum diversity and evolution
AA Research Talks
Monday, September 12, 2011, 12:00 pm
Juan Losada

Aula Dei Experimental Station – CSIC, Spain / Arnold Arboretum Associate

From apple to magnolia: the conservation of glycoproteins involved in pollen-pistil interactions
AA Research Talks
Monday, August 8, 2011, 12:00 pm
Iñaki Hormaza

La Mayora Experimental Station in Malaga, Spain / Arnold Arboretum Associate

Seedless fruits and ovule development: A successful story of a candidate gene approach from Arabidopsis to sugar apple.
AA Research Talks
Monday, June 27, 2011, 12:00 pm
Faye Rosin

Arnold Arboretum

AA Research Talks
Monday, June 20, 2011, 12:00 pm
Francesca Secchi

Arnold Arboretum, Zwieniecki Lab

AA Research Talks
Monday, June 13, 2011, 12:00 pm
Maciej Zwieniecki

Arnold Arboretum

AA Research Talks
Monday, June 6, 2011, 12:00 pm
Elizabeth Crone

Harvard Forest

AA Research Talks
Monday, May 23, 2011, 12:00 pm
Cary Pirone

Arnold Arboretum Putnam Fellow

AA Research Talks
Monday, May 16, 2011, 12:00 pm
Don Les

University of Connecticut

AA Research Talks
Monday, May 9, 2011, 12:00 pm
Peter Del Tredici

Arnold Arboretum

AA Research Talks
Monday, May 2, 2011, 12:00 pm
Shirley Xiaobi Dong

Harvard Univeristy, Moorcroft Lab

AA Research Talks
Monday, April 25, 2011, 12:00 pm
Peter Del Tredici

Arnold Arboretum

AA Research Talks
Sunday, April 17, 2011, 12:00 pm
Julien Basile Bachelier

Arnold Arboretum, Friedman Lab

AA Research Talks
Monday, April 11, 2011, 12:00 pm
Erin Kurten

Arnold Arboretum, Davies Lab

AA Research Talks
Wednesday, April 6, 2011, 12:00 pm
Abby Hird

BGCI-US and AA Associate

AA Research Talks
Monday, March 21, 2011, 12:00 pm
Stuart Davies

Arnold Arboretum

AA Research Talks
Monday, March 14, 2011, 12:00 pm
Rebecca Povilus

Arnold Arboretum, Friedman Lab

AA Research Talks
Wednesday, March 9, 2011, 12:00 pm
Garth Holman

Graduate Student, University of Connecticut

AA Research Talks
Wednesday, February 23, 2011, 12:00 pm
Brian Morgan

Arnold Arboretum Putnam Fellow

AA Research Talks
Wednesday, February 16, 2011, 12:00 pm
George Morris

Arnold Arboretum

AA Research Talks
Wednesday, February 9, 2011, 12:00 pm
Sarah Mathews

Arnold Arboretum

AA Research Talks
Wednesday, January 26, 2011, 12:00 pm
Cam Webb

Arnold Arboretum

AA Research Talks
Wednesday, January 19, 2011, 12:00 pm
Michael Dosmann

Arnold Arboretum

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