Plant Talk

An informal lunchtime seminar venue in the Biology Department at Florida International University

usually meeting 2005-06 on Wednesdays at noon in WC 130 [see specific date and time schedule below]

We invite you to join us

for this year's smorgasbord of:

relaxed research presentations, half-baked hypotheses, travelogues, virtual visits to near and far away field sites, and who knows?  The lineup is ever-changing and the best is yet to come...

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

 
 

date and location (WC 130 unless otherwise)

Speaker

Topic

21 September

Suzanne Koptur

A visit to the Ladybird Johnson Wildflower Center

28 September

Jenny Richards

Eleocharis morphology

5 October 

Mahadev Bhat

FIU's new initiative for agroecology in Miami

12 October 

SERC brownbag

no plant talk today

19 October

Jed Redwine

EPA conference review

26 October

Tim Bell (Chicago State University and The Morton Arboretum)

A trip to Isle Royale

(rescheduled to spring 2006)

2 November

Ligia Collado

Macroalgae in the Caribbean and a little bit north: Architecture, population models, long term trend analysis, ..... and back to architecture

9 November

SERC brownbag

16 November

Brad Bennett

Flora and Phylogeny of Southern Chile

23 November

30 November

7 December

Javier Francisco-Ortega

Endemic genera in the Caribbean

after a long break....

15 February 2006

 Tim Bell (Chicago State University and The Morton Arboretum)

A trip to Isle Royale

8 March 2006 [11 am in OE 270]

Vivian Negron-Ortiz (Miami University, Ohio)

Reproduction and polyploidy in a cactus endemic to the Caribbean

15 March 2006

John Ogden (South Florida Water                Management District)

Cuba: First Impressions. A visit to the Zapata wetland

22 March

SPRING BREAK!!! 

enjoy plants in nature and your garden

29 March 

David Lee

Joseph Rock and the Botany of Yunnan

5 April

SERC brownbag

12 April

Chad Husby

Botanizing in northern Michigan

19 April

Chad Husby

Giant Horsetails in the Atacama Desert

26 April

Vinda Maharaj

Dye Retention and Toxicity, Foraging Movement, and Caste Distribution of the Drywood Termite, Incisitermes snyderi.