Hong Ma, Professor of Biology Huck Distinguished Research Professor of Plant Molecular Biology Associate Dean for Research and Innovation Pennsylvania State University
Title: Nuclear phylogenomics with evidence for WGD during angiosperm history and implication on morphological evolution
Abstract: Fruits are the defining structures of flowering plants and are important to both ecology and agriculture. There are many dry...
22 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138, HUH Seminar Room 125
Dr. L. Pushpa Kumar Faculty, University of Delhi, India
Access to Biological Resources and Benefit Sharing under the Nagoya Protocol: Challenges in dealing with the new international norms and perspectives on biodiversity law in India and the United States
22 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138, HUH Seminar Room 125
Louise Comas, Plant Physiologist United States Department of Agriculture - Agricultural Research Service
Topic: Root functional traits for water and nutrient acquisition linked to plant strategies: unpacking the black box
Abstract: Resource availability has long been recognized for playing a major role in structuring plant communities. Nonetheless, a functional understanding of root traits, their plasticity, and their interactions with soil...
22 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138, HUH Seminar Room 125
Tucker Pforzheimer and Truman French, Managing Partners Martha's Vineyard Mycological
Topic: Back to the Logs: Mycocultural Appropriation on Martha's Vineyard
Abstract: Shiitake mushrooms, Lentinula edodes, are one of the most cultivated species of fungus in the world, and since the 1970’s the U.S. market has grown to over forty million dollars annually. Originating in Japan, China, and Korea, cultivation began on freshly felled oak logs...
