Archives: Research Talks

  • Selection and genetic constraints on clonal investment in a perennial plant

    Date and Time: February 27, 2023 12:10 pm

    Speaker: Christina Steinecke
    PhD Student, Hopkins Lab, Harvard University
    Fellow of the Arnold Arboretum

    There will be two 20 min talks during today’s seminar.

  • Stirring up a hornet’s nest: Taxonomic revision of Cryptantha Lehm. ex G.Don, an intriguing genus from the Boraginaceae s. str.

    Date and Time: March 7, 2023 12:00 pm

    Speaker: Pablo Moroni
    Postdoctoral Fellow, Instituto de Botánica Darwinion

  • The symbiosis that shapes the soil

    Date and Time: May 1, 2023 12:10 pm

    Speaker: Caitlin Hicks Pries
    Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences, Dartmouth College

  • The ecosystem responses of concurrent biotic and climatic disturbances in New England forests

    Date and Time: March 27, 2023 12:10 pm

    Speaker: Jackie Matthes
    Senior Scientist at the Harvard Forest

  • Understanding barriers: Bringing people to conservation

    Date and Time: April 24, 2023 12:10 pm

    Speaker: Sebastian Moreno
    Ph.D. Candidate, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

  • Perspective on the genetic plasticity and diversity of the fungal genus Basidiobolus

    Date and Time: April 10, 2023 12:10 pm

    Speaker: 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.

  • Plant ecophysiology micro to macro

    Date and Time: April 10, 2023 12:30 pm

    Speaker: 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.

  • Root exudates as hidden mediators of soil carbon storage

    Date and Time: February 27, 2023 12:10 pm

    Speaker: Nikhil Chari
    PhD Student, Taylor Lab, Harvard University
    Fellow of the Arnold Arboretum

    There will be two 20 min talks during today’s seminar.

  • A look into the world’s tiniest plants and their importance in the ocean

    Date and Time: December 6, 2022 12:00 pm

    Speaker: Alexandra Z. Worden
    Professor of Ocean EcoSystems Biology, GEOMAR
    Visiting Scholar in Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University

  • Understanding and harnessing the diversity of plant metabolism

    Date and Time: February 13, 2023 12:10 pm

    Speaker: Ryan Nett
    Assistant Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University

  • Breaking and building bridges: Discovering the biology underlying graft compatibility

    Date and Time: April 18, 2023 12:00 pm

    Speaker: Margaret Frank
    Assistant Professor, Cornell University

  • Title: TBA

    Date and Time: April 4, 2023 12:00 pm

    Speaker: Michael Bradshaw
    HUH Research Fellow