Past Research Talks

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).

Fall 2012

September 18 *Tuesday, 12:15 pm Weld Hill	HUH Seminar at the Arboretum Joe Williams University of Tennessee, Knoxville Intersecting ontogenies: the evolutionary developmental origins of the pollination to fertilization process of flowering plants
September 24 Monday, 12:15 pm Weld Hill	Michael Marcotrigiano Smith College, Professor and Botanic Gardens, Director Variegations on a theme
October 1 Monday, 12:15 pm Weld Hill	Hugh McAllister Ness Botantic Gardens University of Liverpool Great Mountain Ashes (Sorbus spp.): from herbarium to the living trees
October 11 *Thursday, 12:15 pm Weld Hill	Daniel Chamovitz Tel Aviv University The complex roles of the COP9 Signalosome in regulating development
October 16 *Tuesday, 12:15 pm Weld Hill	HUH Seminar at the Arboretum Egbert Leigh Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama What large forest plots can tell us about tropical forest ecology
October 22 Monday, 12:15 pm Weld Hill	Aaron Ellison Harvard Forest What do they do with all those ants? Nutrient limitation and stoichiometry of carnivorous plants
November 5 Monday, 12:15 pm Weld Hill	Lisa Pearson Arnold Arboretum Horticultural Library Trapped in a Filing Cabinet
November 15 *Thursday, 12:15 pm Weld Hill	Barry Tomlinson Harvard Forest E. C. Jeffrey Professor of Biology, Emeritus Axillary branching. Where did it come from? Where did it go?
November 19 Monday, 12:15 pm Weld Hill	Stephanie Conway University of Melbourne, Arboretum Visiting Fellow The shoot apical meristem in Gymnosperms
November 26 Monday, 12:15 pm Weld Hill	Erica Fadon Aula Dei Experimental Station–CSIC, Spain, Arboretum Visiting Fellow Flowers in the fall: Getting ready to rest
December 3 Monday, 12:15 pm Weld Hill	Michele Dudash University of Maryland Quantifying the ecological context of a nursery pollination system in a North American Silene species
December 10 Monday, 12:15 pm Weld Hill	Peter Del Tredici and Garth Holman Arnold Arboretum and University of Maine A new species of Tsuga from Korea

Spring 2012

January 23 Monday, 12:15 pm Weld Hill	David Boufford Harvard University Herbaria / Arnold Arboretum Associate Field Studies in the Tibetan Regions of China
January 31 *Tuesday, 12:15 pm Weld Hill	HUH Seminar at the Arboretum Alan Knapp Colorado State University / Harvard Forest Global Change and Grasslands
February 13 Monday, 12:15 pm Weld Hill	Pamela Templer Boston University Effects of winter climate change on northern hardwood forests
February 28 *Tuesday, 12:15 pm Weld Hill	Rebecca Povilus Arnold Arboretum, Friedman Lab Auxin and the evolution of female gametophyte development in Angiosperms
March 12 Monday, 12:15 pm Weld Hill	Selena Ahmed Tufts University Impacts of Climate and Management Variability on Tea Quality and Associated Farmer Perceptions
March 27 *Tuesday, 12:15 pm Weld Hill	HUH Seminar at the Arboretum Vivian Irish Yale University Regulation of petal organogenesis
April 2 Monday, 12:15 pm Weld Hill	Rick Kesseli University of Massachusetts, Boston Sex, lies and polyploid mates: Is invasive Japanese Knotweed really the world’s largest living being?
April 3 *Tuesday, 12:15 pm Weld Hill	HUH Seminar at the Arboretum Rachel Spicer Connecticut College Making connections: Auxin transport and leaf-system vascular continuity in the model woody plant Populus
April 17 *Tuesday, 12:15 pm Weld Hill	HUH Seminar at the Arboretum Erika Edwards Brown University A clade’s eye view of plant ecological adaptation
April 30 Monday, 12:15 pm Weld Hill	George Morris and IT team Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University The Evolution of IT at the Arnold Arboretum
May 7 Monday, 12:15 pm Weld Hill	Rachel Levin Amherst College Lycium (Solanaceae): Fruits, Flowers, and Phylogenetics
May 14 Monday, 12:15 pm Weld Hill	Peter Del Tredici Arnold Arboretum The Ecology of Abandonment
May 29 *Tuesday, 12:15 pm Weld Hill	Abby Hird BGCI-US and AA Associate Supporting public garden plant conservation efforts: an update from BGCI-US

Fall 2011

August 8 Monday, 12:15 pm Weld Hill	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.
September 12 Monday, 12:15 pm Weld Hill	Juan Losada Aula 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 Arboretum Michael Donoghue Yale University Viburnum diversity and evolution
October 3 Monday, 12:15 pm Weld Hill	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
October 18 *Tuesday, 12:15 pm Weld Hill	HUH Seminar at the Arboretum Jun Wen Smithsonian 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 Lee Florida International University The Natural History of the North Cascades
October 31 Monday, 12:15 pm Weld Hill	David Kenfack CTFS–SIGEO Africa Program Coordinator / Arnold Arboretum Associate The trans-atlantic genus Carapa (Meliaceae)
November 7 Monday, 12:15 pm Weld Hill	Pam Diggle University 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 Arboretum Yuguo Wang / Bharti Sharma Harvard 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 Collections 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
November 28 Monday, 12:15 pm Weld Hill	George C. K. Chiang Harvard University, Kramer Lab Role of natural alleles on developmental transitions in field grown Arabidopsis
December 5 Monday, 12:15 pm Weld Hill	Lorna Gibson Massachusetts Institute of Technology The Hierarchical Structure and Mechanics of Plants
December 12 Monday, 12:15 pm Weld Hill	Anthony Brach Missouri Botanical Garden / HUH / Arnold Arboretum Associate Flora of China e-Resources
December 19 Monday, 12:15 pm Weld Hill	Wenheng Zhang Havard University, Davis Lab Floral symmetry genes and the evolution of a plant pollinator mutualism

Past Research Talks

September 18

HUH Seminar at the Arboretum

September 24

October 1

Hugh McAllister

October 11

October 16

HUH Seminar at the Arboretum

October 22

November 5

November 15

Barry Tomlinson

November 19

November 26

Erica Fadon

December 3

December 10

Peter Del Tredici and Garth Holman

January 23

January 31

HUH Seminar at the Arboretum

February 13

February 28

March 12

March 27

HUH Seminar at the Arboretum

April 2

April 3

HUH Seminar at the Arboretum

April 17

HUH Seminar at the Arboretum

April 30

George Morris and IT team

May 7

May 14

May 29

August 8

September 12

September 20

HUH Seminar at the Arboretum

October 3

October 18

HUH Seminar at the Arboretum

October 25

David Lee

October 31

November 7

November 15

HUH Seminar at the Arboretum

Yuguo Wang / Bharti Sharma

November 22

Todd Forrest

November 28

George C. K. Chiang

December 5

December 12

December 19