Archives: Research Talks

  • Decline of dwarf mistletoe-infected white spruce forests along the Maine coast: mechanisms of mortality and the legacy of land use

    Date and Time: April 13, 2015 12:00 pm

    Speaker: Barry Logan
    Professor, Bowdoin College

  • Three unusual views of community assembly

    Date and Time: April 6, 2015 12:00 am

    Speaker: Brian McGill
    Associate Professor, University of Maine

  • Leaf ecology in the highly diverse South Africa genus Pelargonium

    Date and Time: March 30, 2015 12:00 pm

    Speaker: Cynthia Jones
    Professor, University of Connecticut

  • What cities can learn from trees

    Date and Time: March 9, 2015 12:00 pm

    Speaker: Nathan Phillips
    Professor, Boston University

  • Leaf shape natural variation: environmental effects and genetic architecture in Senecio lautus

    Date and Time: March 2, 2015 12:00 pm

    Speaker: Diana Bernal
    PhD Candidate, University of Queensland, Australia

  • Evolutionary transitions in plant reproductive strategies

    Date and Time: February 23, 2015 12:00 pm

    Speaker: Jannice Friedman
    Assistant Professor, Syracuse University

  • Adaptation to climate and elevation in Spanish Arabidopsis

    Date and Time: February 9, 2015 12:00 pm

    Speaker: Stephen Tonsor
    Associate Professor, University of Pittsburgh

  • Darwin’s “abominable mystery” and the search for the first flowering plants

    Date and Time: February 2, 2015 12:00 pm

    Speaker: William (Ned) Friedman
    Arnold Professor, Arnold Arboretum and Organismic and Evolutionary Biology

  • Automatic selection and the evolution of self-fertilization

    Date and Time: January 26, 2015 12:00 pm

    Speaker: Jeremiah Busch
    Assistant Professor, Washington State University

  • Plant ecology and agricultural sustainability in ancient Turkey

    Date and Time: December 9, 2014 12:00 pm

    Speaker: John (Mac) Marston
    Assistant Professor, Boston University

  • Sexual selection drives the evolution of reproductive isolation in flowering plants

    Date and Time: December 1, 2014 12:00 pm

    Speaker: Daniel Otiz-Barrientos
    Senior Lecturer (Assistant Professor), The University of Queensland, Australia

  • Species invasions, niche relationships, and plant conservation

    Date and Time: November 24, 2014 12:00 pm

    Speaker: Dov Sax
    Associate Professor, Brown University