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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

HUH Seminar Series
Tuesday, March 19, 2024, 12:00 pm
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Graduate student, Hopkins Lab, Harvard University
Fellow of the Arnold Arboretum

The evolution and maintenance of reproductive investment strategies in Phlox: evaluating patterns of phenotypic and environmental correlation
AA Research Talks
Monday, March 25, 2024, 12:10 pm

Associate Professor, University of Connecticut

Title: TBA
HUH Seminar Series
Tuesday, April 2, 2024, 12:00 pm
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Research Associate in Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University
Fellow of the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University

Characterizing red floral color evolution in polyploids
AA Research Talks
Monday, April 8, 2024, 12:10 pm
Jessica Orozco

Postdoctoral fellow, Holbrook Lab, Harvard University

Title: TBA
HUH Seminar Series
Tuesday, April 16, 2024, 12:00 pm
Nawal Shrestha

Research Associate in Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University

Title: TBA
AA Research Talks
Monday, April 22, 2024, 12:10 pm

Faculty Investigator, HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology
Host: Kramer Lab

A thousand ways to evolve a sex chromosome
AA Research Talks
Tuesday, May 7, 2024, 9:00 am

Sponsored by:
Harvard University Plant Biology Initiative,
Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology,
and the Arnold Arboretum

Root-Microbe Interactions in a Changing World
AA Research Talks
Friday, August 9, 2024, 11:00 am
DaRin Butz Foundation Undergraduate Research Program Summer Presentations
AA Research Talks
Tuesday, April 8, 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.