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Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden Spring 2008 — Friday Seminar Series addressing evolutionary & systematic botany Join us in RSABG’s East Classroom, Fridays at 4 p.m. Refreshments served at 3:45 p.m. | Date | Speaker | Speaker Institution | Title of Talk | | 25 Jan 08 | Susan Grose, Ph.D. | formerly, University of Washington, Seattle | The evolution and development of indehiscent fruits in Crescentieae (Bignoniaceae) | | 08 Feb 08 | Shelley McMahon, Ph.D. | University of Arizona | Phylogenomic systematics and flower evolution in the legume family | | 28 Sep 07 | Pesach Lubinsky | UC Riverside | Origins of cultivated vanilla | | 22 Feb 08 | Jun Wen | Smithsonian | Evolution of Intercontinental Biogeographic Disjunctions in Plants | | 29 Feb 08 | Hugo Mantilla | Texas Tech University | Computer modelling applied to the study of allopatric speciation | 04 Apr 08 | Rob Raguso | University of North Carolina | Right under our noses: the many roles of floral scent in plant-pollinator interactions | | 18 Apr 08 | Elizabeth Kellogg, Ph.D | University of Missouri, St. Louis | What do grasses do with their extra genes? | 25 Apr 08 | Dylan Burge | Duke University | Molecular phylogenetics of Ceanothus, subgenus Cerastes (Rhamnaceae) | 02 May 08 | Victor Steinmann | Instituto de Ecología, A.C. Centro Regional del Bajio Pátzcuaro, Michoacán, Mexico | El Bajio de México | | 09 May 08 | James Reveal, Ph.D. | University of Maryland | Mark Catesby -- Artist and naturalist in colonial America |
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