Plant Talk

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

We will usually meet 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
15 Sep 2010	David Lee	Ayurveda - Plants as Medicine
22 Sep	Carla Cao	Adventures in Lebanon
29 Sep	Chad Husby	Botanizing in New Caledonia
20 Oct	Jayanti Mukherjee	A walk through a biodiveristy 'hotpsot' of the Indian subcontinent
27 Oct	Peter J. Hogarth, University of York	Dragons
3 Nov - 2 pm in WC 130	Paulo Olivas	Arctic Ecosystem Responses to Changes in Water Availability and Warming: Short and Long-Term Responses
5 Nov - 2 pm in WC 130	Cary Pirone	Bilirubin: An Animal Pigment in the Plant Kingdom
17 Nov	Yu Mingjian and Hu Guang	Biodiversity in the famous Thousand Island Lake in China: studies on land-bridge islands focusing on effects of habitat fragmentation
19 Jan 2011	Jorge E. Peña, UF TREC	Lauraceae Trees and Asian Ambrosia Beetles: Naïve Hosts in the New world?
26 Jan	Suzanne Koptur	Children's Gardens
2 Feb	Scott Zona	A Botanical Tour of Chile
16 Feb	Daniel Carrillo, UF TREC	A new Invasive Mite and Host Plants in Florida and the Caribbean
23 Feb	Brian Machovina	Sourcing and Marketing Plant Products
2 Mar	Zoe Smith (SERC)	Orchids and mycorrhizae – restoration in Australia
23 Mar	David Lee	The Natural History of the Columbia Plateau
30 Mar	Jason Downing	The impact of an invasive bee on an endemic pollination mutualism – master’s thesis defense
20 Apr	Kiki Mutis (FTBG)	Amazon Conservation Biology in Suriname