Archives: Research Talks

  • 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

  • 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