Botany Seminars Archive

Title Date Time Topic
Guest Speaker-Stacy Krueger-Hadfield- Krajina Lecture Wednesday, November 29, 2023 12:00 pm - 01:00 pm At the convergence of life cycles and reproductive systems: insights into the evolutionary ecology of sex
Guest Speaker- Julian Starr (Davidson lecturer) Tuesday, November 28, 2023 12:30 pm - 01:30 pm Tiger nuts and velcro plants: a walk through the phylogeny, biogeography, and diversity of sedges (family Cyperaceae)
Exit Seminar- Anna Cho Thursday, November 23, 2023 12:30 pm - 01:30 pm Investigating stramenopiles evolution through phylogenomics, diversity, and symbionts
Botany Faculty Guest Speaker- Sean Michaletz Tuesday, November 21, 2023 12:30 pm - 01:30 pm From leaf to biosphere: Plant functioning in a changing climate
Guest Speaker- Greg Owens Tuesday, November 7, 2023 12:30 pm - 01:30 pm The repeatability of evolution in a long-term experimental hybrid sunflower population.
Guest Speaker- Jochen Zimmer (Clayton-Person Lecture) Tuesday, October 31, 2023 12:30 pm - 01:30 pm From bacteria to plants: Variations of cellulose biosynthesis across kingdoms
Guest Speaker- Dae-Kyun Ro Tuesday, October 24, 2023 12:30 pm - 01:30 pm Breaking barriers in molecular genetics studies of non-model plants using CRISPR/Cas9 – lettuce and pea as case studies
Botany Faculty Guest Speaker- Loren Rieseberg Tuesday, October 17, 2023 12:30 pm - 01:30 pm Recombination and Speciation
Exit Seminar- Gracy Buckholtz Tuesday, October 10, 2023 12:30 pm - 01:30 pm Breeding Battles: Reproductive Dynamics in Mixed Apomictic and Sexual Populations
Guest Speaker- CJ (Chung-Jui Tsai) Tuesday, October 3, 2023 12:30 pm - 01:30 pm From in vitro flowering to reproductive isolation of aspen: insights from a hybrid genome and the promise of genome engineering