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Seminars

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