Archives: Research Talks

  • Maintenance of variation in sex expression in the wild geranium, Geranium maculatum

    Date and Time: April 8, 2019 12:00 pm

    Speaker: Shu-Mei Chang
    Professor, University of Georgia

  • Just how friendly IS my enemy’s enemy? Herbivore-herbivore interactions on eastern hemlock

    Date and Time: April 1, 2019 12:00 pm

    Speaker: Evan Preisser
    Professor & Chair, University of Rhode Island

  • Mighty oaks from little acorns grow: phylogenomic data add new branches to the Quercus tree of life

    Date and Time: March 25, 2019 12:00 pm

    Speaker: Paul Manos
    Professor, Duke University

  • Understanding principle mechanisms of tropical forest degradation with application to their restoration

    Date and Time: March 11, 2019 12:00 pm

    Speaker: Mark Ashton
    Professor and Director of School Forests, Yale University

  • Reproductive evolution across geographical ranges

    Date and Time: February 25, 2019 12:00 pm

    Speaker: Spencer Barrett
    University Professor Emeritus, University of Toronto

  • Strangers in the night: Will light pollution lead to firefly declines?

    Date and Time: February 4, 2019 12:00 pm

    Speaker: Avalon Owens
    PhD Student, Tufts University Arboretum Cunin/Sigal Award Recipient

  • The double threat of habitat shrinking and gene flow to Arabis nemorensis: a genomics study

    Date and Time: January 28, 2019 12:00 pm

    Speaker: Juliette de Meaux
    Professor, University of Cologne, Germany

  • Embracing the complexity of nature –genomic approaches for understanding the development and evolution of forest trees

    Date and Time: December 3, 2018 12:00 pm

    Speaker: Andrew Groover
    Research Geneticist, USDA Forest Service

  • EH Wilson’s “another planet”— Australia’s plants, global differences, and landscape architecture

    Date and Time: November 26, 2018 12:00 pm

    Speaker: Margaret Grose
    Senior Lecturer in Landscape Architecture, University of Melbourne Arboretum Sargent Award Recipient

  • The botany of Thanksgiving (dinner)

    Date and Time: November 21, 2018 6:00 pm

    Speaker: Pam Diggle
    Professor and Associate Department Head, University of Connecticut

  • The evolution of mate choice to avoid hybridization in plants

    Date and Time: November 5, 2018 12:10 pm

    Speaker: Robin Hopkins
    Assistant Professor, OEB, Harvard University and Faculty Fellow, Arnold Arboretum

  • Ecology and evolution of species range limits

    Date and Time: October 29, 2018 12:10 pm

    Speaker: Monica Geber
    Professor, Cornell University