Archives: Research Talks

  • Plasticity in Polygonum: eco-devo insights to adaptive diversity

    Date and Time: December 11, 2017 12:00 pm

    Speaker: Sonia Sultan
    Professor, Wesleyan University

  • Trade-offs in evolutionary ecology

    Date and Time: December 4, 2017 12:00 pm

    Speaker: Anurag Agrawal
    Professor, Cornell University

  • Let the niche be functional: a process-based approach of the niche to forecast the fate of species in future climate

    Date and Time: November 27, 2017 12:00 pm

    Speaker: Isabelle Chuine
    CNRS Research Director at the Centre d’Ecologie Fonctionnelle Evolutive, France Harvard Forest Bullard Fellow

  • Growing grapes in the snow: Understanding the intersections between genetics, physiology, and climate

    Date and Time: November 13, 2017 12:00 pm

    Speaker: Jason Londo
    Research Geneticist, USDA-ARS Grape Genetics Unit

  • Digital farming: Exploring the intersection of computation, biology, and photography at the MIT Media Lab

    Date and Time: November 6, 2017 12:00 pm

    Speaker: Tim Savas
    Technical Associate, MIT Media Lab

  • Neotropical biogeography and dispersal: Examples from the Lamiales

    Date and Time: October 30, 2017 12:00 pm

    Speaker: Richard Olmstead
    Professor, University of Washington

  • Phylogenomic insights into the evolutionary history of baobabs (Adansonia; Malvaceae)

    Date and Time: October 20, 2017 12:00 pm

    Speaker: David Baum
    Professor, University of Wisconsin, Madison

  • Darwin’s “Damned Land”, A.K.A. Patagonia: A paleo(neo)botanist’s paradise

    Date and Time: October 16, 2017 12:00 pm

    Speaker: M. Alejandra Gandolfo-Nixon
    Senior Research Associate, Cornell University

  • The trajectory of plant trait ecology

    Date and Time: October 11, 2017 12:00 pm

    Speaker: Mark Westoby
    Australian Laureate Professor, Macquarie University, Australia

  • Diversification, adaptation and community assembly of the American oaks (Quercus): a model clade for integrating ecology and evolution

    Date and Time: October 2, 2017 12:00 pm

    Speaker: Jeannine Cavender-Bares
    Professor, University of Minnesota

  • The role of gene and genome duplications in network evolution

    Date and Time: September 18, 2017 12:00 pm

    Speaker: Pat Edger
    Assistant Professor, Michigan State University

  • Reticulate evolution and cryptic parentage in North American Isoëtes

    Date and Time: September 11, 2017 12:00 pm

    Speaker: Jacob Suissa
    PhD Student, Friedman Lab