Research Talks – Fall 2011
The Arnold Arboretum holds a weekly seminar series on Mondays at 12:15 pm at the Weld Hill Lecture Hall. Once a month the Harvard University Herbaria (HUH) Seminar is hosted at Weld Hill (*Tuesdays at 12:15 pm).
August 8Monday, 12:15 pm Weld Hill |
Iñaki HormazaLa 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. |
September 12Monday, 12:15 pm Weld Hill |
Juan LosadaAula Dei Experimental Station – CSIC, Spain / Arnold Arboretum Associate From apple to magnolia: the conservation of glycoproteins involved in pollen-pistil interactions |
September 20*Tuesday, 12:15 pm Weld Hill |
HUH Seminar at the ArboretumMichael DonoghueYale University Viburnum diversity and evolution |
October 3Monday, 12:15 pm Weld Hill |
Robert BakerUniversity 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 |
October 18*Tuesday, 12:15 pm Weld Hill |
HUH Seminar at the ArboretumJun WenSmithsonian National Museum of Natural History Evolution of the biogeographic disjunctions between eastern Asia and North America |
October 25*Tuesday, 12:15 pm Weld Hill |
David LeeFlorida International University The Natural History of the North Cascades |
October 31Monday, 12:15 pm Weld Hill |
David KenfackCTFS–SIGEO Africa Program Coordinator / Arnold Arboretum Associate The trans-atlantic genus Carapa (Meliaceae) |
November 7Monday, 12:15 pm Weld Hill |
Pam DiggleUniversity of Colorado, Boulder and Harvard University Multiple developmental processes underlie sex differentiation in angiosperms |
November 15*Tuesday, 12:15 pm Weld Hill |
HUH Seminar at the ArboretumYuguo Wang / Bharti SharmaHarvard University, Davis Lab / Kramer Lab Reconstructing patterns of reticulate evolution in kiwifruits B-class gene duplication linked to novel organ identity in Aquilegia |
November 22*Tuesday, 12:15 pm Weld Hill |
Special Series: The Future of Living CollectionsTodd ForrestVice 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 |
November 28Monday, 12:15 pm Weld Hill |
George C. K. ChiangHarvard University, Kramer Lab Role of natural alleles on developmental transitions in field grown Arabidopsis |
December 5Monday, 12:15 pm Weld Hill |
Lorna GibsonMassachusetts Institute of Technology The Hierarchical Structure and Mechanics of Plants |
December 12Monday, 12:15 pm Weld Hill |
Anthony BrachMissouri Botanical Garden / HUH / Arnold Arboretum Associate Flora of China e-Resources |
December 19Monday, 12:15 pm Weld Hill |
Wenheng ZhangHavard University, Davis Lab Floral symmetry genes and the evolution of a plant pollinator mutualism |