Research Talks
The Arnold Arboretum holds a weekly seminar series most Mondays at 12:10pm at the Weld Hill Lecture Hall (*unless otherwise noted). All talks are free and open to everyone. To receive announcements, sign up for the AA Research Talks mailing list.
WATCH LIVE on the Arboretum’s YouTube channel if you are unable to attend in person. The streaming video is entitled “Arnold Arboretum Live Stream” and is visible only when a live stream is in progress.
Spring 2018
Jan 22, 2018Mon, 12:10 pm Weld Hill |
Jim KellnerAssistant Professor, Brown University High-resolution remote sensing and population dynamics in a low-density tree population |
Jan 29, 2018Mon, 12:10 pm Weld Hill |
William (Ned) FriedmanArnold Professor, Harvard University and Arnold Arboretum Faculty Fellow Sibling cooperation and interparental conflict in a seed: how plant mothers, fathers, and siblings behave during the act of reproduction in flowering plants |
Feb 5, 2018Mon, 12:10 pm Weld Hill |
Elizabeth SpriggsArnold Arboretum Putnam Fellow Phylogeography of North American Viburnum using RADseq data |
Feb 12, 2018Mon, 12:10 pm Weld Hill |
Morgan MoegleinGraduate Student, Edwards Lab, Yale University Leaf trait evolution in Viburnum |
Feb 26, 2018Mon, 12:10 pm Weld Hill Host: Hopkins |
Boris IgicAssociate Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago The history and consequences of self-incompatibility |
March 5, 2018Mon, 12:10 pm Weld Hill Host: Zieminska |
Sean GleasonResearch Plant Physiologist, USDA-ARS Water Management Research Unit Improving the drought tolerance of crop and timber species: physiological and evolutionary perspectives |
March 19, 2018Mon, 12:10 pm Weld Hill Host: Hopkins |
Bruce McClureProfessor, University of Missouri Mechanisms and patterns of interspecific pollen rejection in Solanum |
March 26, 2018Mon, 12:10 pm Weld Hill |
Marjorie LundgrenPostdoctoral Fellow, MIT Ecological transitions during the evolution of C4 photosynthesis |
April 2, 2018Mon, 12:10 pm Weld Hill |
Nina BassukProfessor, Cornell University Tree selection in the inner city |
April 9, 2018Mon, 12:10 pm Weld Hill Host: Hopkins Lab |
Kyle DexterLecturer, University of Edinburgh Research Associate, Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh The importance of biomes in macroevolutionary and macroecological studies |
April 16, 2018Mon, 12:10 pm Weld Hill |
David BaslerCharles Bullard Fellow, Harvard University Arboretum Sargent Award Recipient A bird’s-eye view on tree phenology at the Arnold Arboretum |
April 23, 2018Mon, 12:10 pm Weld Hill |
Federico RodaPostdoctoral Fellow, Hopkins Lab Sexual choices and evolution in Texas: The Phlox story |
April 30, 2018Mon, 12:10 pm Weld Hill |
Jill MillerProfessor, Amherst College Reproductive variation within species: evolutionary transitions in sexual strategy and mating system in Lycium (Solanaceae) |
See our calendar for more lectures, classes and tours at the Arboretum.
See more Harvard Events (calendar hosted by the Harvard University Center for the Environment).
See Biology Week (calendar hosted by the Whitehead Institute) for more biology seminars and symposia in the Boston/Cambridge area.
