Plant Talk

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

usually meeting 2008-09 on Mondays at 2 pm 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

25 August

Scott Zona     

Wertheim Conservatory Vision

1 September

no meeting, Labor Day holiday


8 September

Jenny Richards

Nymphoides Nirvana

15 September

no plant talk - tour of pine rockland garden and native plant sale


2 September

Suzanne Koptur and Roxaneh Khorsand

Pollination of pine rockland palms

29 September

Chad Husby

International Tropical Conifer Exchange

6 October



13 October



20 October

Patrick Griffith, Director, Montgomery Botanical Center

Collections-based research: insights into evolution, conservation, and
comparative biology from botanic gardens

27 October



3 November



10 November

Beyte Barrios Roque

Effects of fire and fragmentation on the reproductive biology of pineland allamanda

17 November

Scott Lewis

Pine rocklands and the Connect to Protect Network Project

24 November

Carl Lewis, Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden

Exploring for Micronesia's Lost Palms

1 December

Javier Francisco-Ortega

Early plant-hunting in the Macaronesian Islands: from Sir Hans Sloane to Charles Darwin

8 December

Hong Liu, FIU Environmental Studies and Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden

The first Orchid Reserve in China -- Conservation opportunities and challenges