AA Research Talks
Monday, November 18, 2024, 12:10 pm
Assistant Professor, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Visiting Scholar, Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University
What is driving the evolution of fern vasculature?
AA Research Talks
Monday, November 4, 2024, 12:10 pm
NSF PRFB Fellow, Kramer Lab, Harvard University
Decoding the cellular and genetic basis of nectary development
AA Research Talks
Monday, October 7, 2024, 12:10 pm
Arnold Arboretum Putnam Fellow
The effects of invasive exotic plants on tritrophic interactions
AA Research Talks
Monday, September 23, 2024, 12:10 pm
PhD Candidate, University of Connecticut
2024 Sargent Award recipient, Arnold Arboretum
From needles to reads: Utilizing ‘omics’ technologies to inform conservation of the eastern Hemlock
AA Research Talks
Friday, August 9, 2024, 11:00 am
DaRin Butz Foundation Undergraduate Research Program Summer Presentations
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
Monday, April 29, 2024, 12:10 pm
Jessica Orozco
Postdoctoral fellow, Holbrook Lab, Harvard University
Lost in the haze: Prolonged megasmoke exposure and its influence on tree carbohydrate stores
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
HUH Seminar Series
Tuesday, April 16, 2024, 12:00 pm
Nawal Shrestha
Research Associate in Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University
Understanding the distribution of life on earth: An ecological and evolutionary perspective
HUH Seminar Series
Tuesday, April 2, 2024, 12:00 pm
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, March 25, 2024, 12:10 pm
Associate Professor, University of Connecticut
Demographic attritions, elevational refugia and the resilience of insect populations to projected global warming
HUH Seminar Series
Tuesday, March 19, 2024, 12:00 pm
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, February 26, 2024, 12:10 pm
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
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
Systematics and evolution of Prosthechea (Orchidaceae), a remarkably diverse Neotropical lineage
AA Research Talks
Monday, December 18, 2023, 12:10 pm
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Visiting Assistant Professor, Swarthmore College 2018 Putnam Fellow
From trees to forests: The maples as a model of global change
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
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
Cranberry bud cold hardiness: Survival mechanisms, dynamics, and methodological advances.
HUH Seminar Series
Tuesday, September 28, 2021, 12:00 pm
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
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
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
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
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
Winter physiology matters
AA Research Talks
Friday, July 26, 2019, 11:00 am
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
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
The mystery of Smith’s aspen: uncovering the genetic identity and climate change vulnerability of a hybrid Pleistocene relic
AA Research Talks
Friday, July 27, 2018, 11:00 am
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
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
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
Friday, July 28, 2017, 11:00 am
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Testing the limits: effects of climate & competition on tree ranges in a warming world
AA Research Talks
Monday, September 9, 2013, 12:00 pm
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
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
Atmospheric nitrogen inputs and losses along an urbanization gradient in Boston
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
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
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
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
Supporting public garden plant conservation efforts: an update from BGCI-US
AA Research Talks
Monday, May 14, 2012, 12:00 pm
The Ecology of Abandonment
AA Research Talks
Monday, May 7, 2012, 12:00 pm
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
A clade’s eye view of plant ecological adaptation
HUH Seminar Series
Tuesday, April 3, 2012, 12:00 pm
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
Regulation of petal organogenesis
AA Research Talks
Monday, March 12, 2012, 12:00 pm
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
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
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
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
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
AA Research Talks
Monday, June 6, 2011, 12:00 pm
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
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
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
AA Research Talks
Monday, March 21, 2011, 12:00 pm
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
AA Research Talks
Wednesday, February 9, 2011, 12:00 pm
AA Research Talks
Wednesday, January 26, 2011, 12:00 pm
AA Research Talks
Wednesday, January 19, 2011, 12:00 pm