Dr. Robert Skelton, Postdoctoral Researcher
Dept. of Integrative Biology
University of California, Berkeley

Topic: Plant hydraulic traits and drought responses: insights from three continents

Abstract:
Droughts cause major damage to plant communities, and reduce primary productivity. Since maintaining hydration to a...

James Mitchell, Graduate Student
Pfister Lab, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology
Harvard University

Topic: TBD

Host Lab: Pfister

Megan Biango-Daniels, Postdoctoral Scholar
Wolfe Lab
Department of Biology, Tufts University

Topic: Bad apples: a new disease and its impacts, farm to fork

Abstract: 
The United States is the world’s second-largest apple producer. Before this economically important crop makes it to grocery shelves, it faces numerous fungal pathogens, a problem compounded by its long postharvest storage. Fungal rots contribute to the 10-15% of apples that are...

Donald H. Pfister
Curator of the Farlow Library and Herbarium of Cryptogamic Botany
Asa Gray Professor of Systematic Botany
Harvard University

Topic: Diversity in the Pezizomycetes and Orbiliomycetes

Abstract:
These two classes of Ascomycota offer examples of ways of thinking about species diversity and some of the factors that come to play in detailed studies of fungi. In some cases collecting in habitats that have not been well explored reveal hidden diversity; in other cases a failure to recognize...