Tuesdays 12.20 – 13.10 in Plant Science 404 (The Whetzel Room)
Previous semesters' schedules as PDFs: Spring 2007, Fall 2006
Read the abstracts for external speaker seminars
The L. H. Bailey Hortorium Seminar series focuses on all aspects of plant sytematics. It combines student talks with invited speakers from within and outside of Cornell. This unique format allows for a rich environment where graduate students develop their communication skills and interact closely with established members of their field.
The Hortorium seminar alternates between two formats. In the Fall semester, the student talks focus on a general topic of botanical interest: biographies of botanical collectors , methods in phylogenetics, pollination and floral biology, etc. In the Spring semester, the talks focus on the students' research.
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Title |
| October | |||
| 2nd | Dr. Barbara Whitlock | University of Miami | Systematics, biogeography, and the evolution of life histories in fringed gentians (Gentianopsis, Gentianaceae) |
| 9th | Fall Break | ||
| 16th | Sang-Hun Oh | N/A | Molecular phylogenetic systematics and biogeography of tribe Neillieae (Rosaceae) |
| 23th | Available | ||
| 30th | Jim Cohen | Davis lab | Taxonomy of Boraginaceae |
| November | |||
| 6th | Dr. Jim Miller | N/A | Resolving and applying a classification for the Borage family |
| 13th | Shannon Straub | Doyle lab | Amorpheae: The taxonomic history of an enigmatic tribe of papilionoid legumes |
| Cindy Skema | Luckow lab | The taxonomic history of Dombeya | |
| 20th | Available | ||
| 27th | Fronny Plume | Doyle lab | Major events and challenges in the taxonomy of genus Calendula and tribe Calenduleae (Asteraceae) |
| Mariana Yazbek | Nixon lab | A short taxonomic history of Amygdalus | |
| December | |||
| 4th | Janelle Burke | Luckow lab | Various taxonomic treatments of the woody, neotropical genera in the Polygonaceae |
| Helle Jensen | N/A | The origin and evolutionary relationship of domesticated chenopods in the Americas | |