Archives: Research Talks

  • Developmental processes behind habit transitions from lianas to self-supporting plants

    Date and Time: February 24, 2025 12:10 pm

    Speaker: Marcelo Pace
    Associate Professor, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Instituto de Biología
    Head of the National Herbarium of Mexico (MEXU)
    Research Associate, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution
    Host: Friedman Lab

  • Pizza theory! Developmental mechanisms that limit the spread and impact of new mutations

    Date and Time: February 3, 2025 2:00 pm

    Speaker: Brad Nelms, Ph.D.
    Assistant Professor, Department of Plant Biology, University of Georgia

    This plant genetics seminar is sponsored by the Boston Children's Hospital and the Harvard Medical School. It will take place in person on the Longwood Campus. We will be streaming the talk at Weld Hill.

  • Latitudinal gradient in leaf forms and the nnfolding story of leaf margins

    Date and Time: March 10, 2025 12:10 pm

    Speaker: Oluwatobi Oso
    PhD Student, Yale University
    2024 Cunin-Sigal Award Recipient

  • Comparative -omics of polyploid apples narrows the search for the genetic basis of apomixis in Malus

    Date and Time: March 24, 2025 12:10 pm

    Speaker: Charity Goeckeritz
    Postdoctoral Fellow, HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology
    Host: Kramer Lab

  • Decoding the cellular and genetic basis of nectary development

    Date and Time: November 4, 2024 12:10 pm

    Speaker: Yan Gong
    NSF PRFB Fellow, Kramer Lab, Harvard University

  • The effects of invasive exotic plants on tritrophic interactions

    Date and Time: October 7, 2024 12:10 pm

    Speaker: Michael LaScaleia
    Arnold Arboretum Putnam Fellow

  • What is driving the evolution of fern vasculature?

    Date and Time: November 18, 2024 12:10 pm

    Speaker: Jacob Suissa
    Assistant Professor, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville
    Visiting Scholar, Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University

  • Pondering plasticity in Polygonum: Genotype-environment integration across generations

    Date and Time: February 10, 2025 12:10 pm

    Speaker: Sonia Sultan
    Alan M. Dachs Professor of Science, Wesleyan University
    Associate, Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University

  • From needles to reads: Utilizing ‘omics’ technologies to inform conservation of the eastern Hemlock

    Date and Time: September 23, 2024 12:10 pm

    Speaker: Vidya Vuruputoor
    PhD Candidate, University of Connecticut
    2024 Sargent Award recipient, Arnold Arboretum

  • Root-Microbe Interactions in a Changing World

    Date and Time: May 7, 2024 9:00 am

    Speaker: 17th Annual Plant Biology Initiative Symposium
    Sponsored by:
    Harvard University Plant Biology Initiative,
    Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology,
    and the Arnold Arboretum

  • The science, policy, and management of invasive species

    Date and Time: April 7, 2025 12:10 pm

    Speaker: Jacob Barney
    Professor, Virginia Tech

  • DaRin Butz Foundation Undergraduate Research Program Summer Presentations

    Date and Time: August 6, 2021 11:00 am

    Speaker: 2021 DaRin Butz Interns