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Research Talks

The Arnold Arboretum and the Harvard University Herbaria (HUH) hold a joint seminar series with all talks free and open to all. To receive announcements, sign up for the AA Research Talks mailing list.

Arboretum 150 logo indicates speakers with an Arboretum connection including current and former scientists, postdoctoral researchers, students, interns, and visitors researching in our labs and greenhouses at Weld Hill, on the grounds, and in the collections.

WATCH LIVE wherever you are! In-person Arboretum talks will be in the Weld Hill Lecture Hall with a live-stream on the Arboretum YouTube channel.

In-person HUH Seminars will be in the HUH Seminar Room 125 (22 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138) with a live-stream on Zoom (please note registration is REQUIRED)

Upcoming Talks

AA Research Talks
Monday, September 23, 2024, 12:10 pm
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PhD Candidate, University of Connecticut
2024 Sargent Award recipient, Arnold Arboretum

Elucidating genomic mechanisms of hemlock woolly adelgid resistance through transcriptome profiling
AA Research Talks
Monday, October 7, 2024, 12:10 pm
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Arnold Arboretum Putnam Fellow

Title: TBA
AA Research Talks
Monday, November 18, 2024, 12:10 pm
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Assistant Professor, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Visiting Scholar, Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University

What 150 years of research on plant vasculature reveals about trait delimitation, adaptive narratives, and organismal atomization
AA Research Talks
Monday, December 9, 2024, 12:10 pm

Alan M. Dachs Professor of Science, Wesleyan University

Pondering plasticity in Polygonum: Genotype-environment integration across generations
AA Research Talks
Monday, April 7, 2025, 12:10 pm

Professor, Virginia Tech

Title: TBA

See our events page for more lectures, classes and tours at the Arboretum.

See more Harvard Events (calendar hosted by the Harvard University Center for the Environment).

See past Research Talks.