Archives: Research Talks

  • Systematics and evolution of Prosthechea (Orchidaceae), a remarkably diverse Neotropical lineage

    Date and Time: January 23, 2024 12:00 pm

    Speaker: Tiago Vieira
    HUH Research Fellow

  • In-situ and ex-situ conservation at Centinela, and searching for the lost Amazonian coca: An informal presentation of 2023 field work in Ecuador

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

    Speaker: Dawson White
    HUH Research Fellow

  • Diversity of the Brazilian Flora and the program REFLORA

    Date and Time: October 10, 2023 12:00 pm

    Speaker: Jenifer de Carvalho Lopes Dantas
    HUH Research Fellow

  • Fun with phloem: What we know, don’t know, and wish we knew

    Date and Time: October 23, 2023 12:10 pm

    Speaker: Jessica Savage
    Associate Professor, University of Minnesota, Duluth
    2023 Jewett Prize Awardee and Visiting Scholar, Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University

  • Fungal traits and forest responses to elevated CO2

    Date and Time: December 11, 2023 12:10 pm

    Speaker: Peter Pellitier
    Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University
    Host: Taylor Lab

  • Invasive plant impacts in the continental United States: processes, patterns and prevention

    Date and Time: December 18, 2023 12:10 pm

    Speaker: Dan Buonaiuto
    NE CASC Postdoctoral Fellow, UMass Amherst

  • Arctic heatwaves and nitrogen and carbon cycling

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

    Speaker: Megan Wilcots
    Global Change Fellow, Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University
    Environmental Fellow, Harvard Center for the Environment

  • 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