Archives: Research Talks

  • 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

    Date and Time: March 21, 2023 12:00 pm

    Speaker: Wayne M Jurick II
    Research Plant Pathologist
    USDA Agricultural Research Service

  • Collections-based phylogenomics and spectral classification of the coca clade (Erythroxylaceae)

    Date and Time: November 22, 2022 12:00 pm

    Speaker: Dawson White
    National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Biology
    Negaunee Integrative Research Center, The Field Museum, Chicago
    Associate, Harvard University Herbaria

  • Dissecting holoparasitic plants: evo-devo case studies in Cucurbitales and Piperales

    Date and Time: February 21, 2023 12:00 pm

    Speaker: Natalia Pabon-Mora
    Associate Professor, University of Antioquia
    Visiting Fulbright Fellow

  • Using herbaria to examine the drivers of spatiotemporal patterns in flower color

    Date and Time: January 24, 2023 12:00 pm

    Speaker: Matthew Koski
    Assistant Professor, Clemson University

  • Developing new treatments for dementia from plants – The value of herbarium collections

    Date and Time: September 27, 2022 12:00 pm

    Speaker: Antonio Currais
    Staff Scientist, CNB-S, Salk Institute for Biological Studies

  • Mycorrhizal fungal effects on biogeochemical cycling and free-living microbial communities under global changes

    Date and Time: November 28, 2022 12:10 pm

    Speaker: Chikae Tatsumi
    Postdoctoral fellow, Boston University and Hokkaido University, Japan

  • Where have all the flowers gone? Understanding the extremely low fruit to flower ratio in avocado

    Date and Time: November 14, 2022 12:10 pm

    Speaker: Iñaki Hormaza
    Research Professor, IHSM la Mayora, Spain
    Visiting Scholar of the Arnold Arboretum

  • The physiological control of growth rate variation, and some observations about GxE

    Date and Time: October 31, 2022 12:10 pm

    Speaker: Dave Des Marais
    Assistant Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Visiting Scholar Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University

  • DaRin Butz Foundation Undergraduate Research Program Summer Presentations

    Date and Time: August 5, 2022 11:00 am

    Speaker: 2022 DaRin Butz Interns

  • Re-collections of diversity: Across the plant kingdom and beyond

    Date and Time: May 23, 2022 12:10 pm

    Speaker: Marcin Nowicki
    Research Assistant Professor
    University of Tennessee

  • Filling in the gaps: The genetic network of fruit development in Austrobaileya scandens and Illicium floridanum

    Date and Time: April 25, 2022 12:10 pm

    Speaker: Ellie Mendelson
    Research assistant in the Friedman Lab

  • Sharing vs. sparing in the rhizosphere: Ecosystem impacts and nutrient dynamics of Xanthobacter autotrophicus biofertilizer

    Date and Time: April 25, 2022 12:10 pm

    Speaker: Lauren Church
    Research assistant in the Taylor Lab