Plant Talk 2018-2019

An informal lunchtime seminar venue in the Biology Department

at Florida International University - Wednesday from noon to 1 pm

 in  WC 130  

[or other times and places as listed below]

We invite you to join us

for relaxed research presentations, half-baked hypotheses, travelogues, virtual visits to near and far away field sites, and who knows?  The lineup is wide ranging and ever-changing...

If you would like to give a presentation, or more information, please contact Alan Franck (ph. 305-348-3514) or Suzanne Koptur (ph. 305-348-3103).

date

presenter

topic

29 August 2018

Andrea Salas (Koptur lab)

research plans - using native Senna as insectary plants in south Florida agriculture

12 September

John Geiger

Images of Andros

26 Sep

Alan Franck

Explorations in southern Haiti

10 October

Joanna Tucker Lima (MBC)

Landscape change alters reproductive phenology in Attalea palms of southwestern Amazonia

17 Oct

Viviana Mazzei

RECOGNIZING CANARIES IN THE COAL MINE: PERIPHYTIC DIATOM INDICATORS OF SALTWATER INTRUSION IN THE FLORIDA COASTAL EVERGLADES

24 Oct

Professor Jiao (Chinese Academy of Forestry) guest of Hong Liu lab

tba

31 October

ICTB/Tropical Botany/ Pine Rocklands

meeting at Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden today and 1st November

14 November

Georgia Tasker

tba

28 November

Javier Francisco Ortega

David Fairchild: the motion pictures

 

SPRING IS HERE!

2019 BEGINS

 

16 January

Brittany Harris

PhD proposal seminar – Pollinator networks in pine rocklands of the lower Florida Keys

24 January

David Attenborough

Private Life of Plants episode 1: Travelling

13 February

Barbara McAdams

 

FIU Rainbarrel workshop - please pre-register if you would like to purchase one!

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/rain-barrel-workshop-fiu-tickets-54533073892 

20 February

Gary Kendrick, School of Biological Sciences and The Oceans Institute, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, 6009, W.A., Australia (Fourqurean lab guest)

Demographic and genetic connectivity: the role and consequences of reproduction, dispersal and recruitment in seagrasses

27 February

David Attenborough

Private Life of Plants episode 2: Growing

13 March

SPRING BREAK

no meeting today

20 March

Brad Bennett

Champion Trees of Southern Florida

10 April

Maria Cleopatra Pimienta

PhD proposal seminar – Floral behavior of Guettarda scabra and pollinator services from diurnal and nocturnal visitors

24 April

Matt Simon

Alaska research adventures