Department of Botany
Seminar Schedule Spring 2008

Seminars are on Fridays at 3:30 p.m. in Aven Nelson Building Room 212 unless noted otherwise.
Receptions are held prior to the seminar in the Louis O. and Terua P. Williams Conservatory at 3 p.m.

JANUARY

18        Dr. Steve Jackson, Professor, Department of Botany, University of Wyoming. “Space, time, and history in ecology: exploring the consequences of environmental texture.” Host: Elise Pendall

25        Dr. Richard N. Mack, Washington State University.. "Invasion! Immigration and spread of Bromus tectorum genotypes across North America." Co-sponsored by the Departments of Renewable Resources and Plant Science, the UW Agricultural Experiment Station, the Haub School of Environment and Natural Resources, and the Program in Ecology. Host: Dave Williams

FEBRUARY

  1        Dr. Robert Hall, Associate Professor, Department of Zoology and Physiology, University of Wyoming. “Controls on nitrate removal and denitrification in streams measured using 15N addition experiments.” Host: Elise Pendall 

  8        Dr. Malcolm Hughes, Regents’ Professor, The Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research, University of Arizona. “Is tree-ring response to climate changing, and if so, why?” Host: Mark Lesser

15        Dr. Rob Carey, Assistant Professor of Biology, Western Wyoming Community College. "The expansin gene superfamily in basal land plant lineages." Host: Greg Brown

22        Jill Larson, M.S. Candidate, Department of Botany, University of Wyoming. “A floristic inventory of the Carson National Forest and vicinity, north-central New Mexico.” Host: Ron Hartman

29        Dr. Peter Brown, Colorado State University & Rocky Mountain Tree Ring Research. “Climate and disturbance effects of forest demography.” Co-sponsored by the Program in Ecology (PiE) Graduate Students.  Host: Mark Lesser

MARCH

  7        Rachel Newton, M.S. Candidate, Department of Botany, University of Wyoming. "A floristic inventory of selected BLM wetlands across Wyoming." Host: Ron Hartman

14       No Seminar

21        No Seminar - Spring Break

28        Dr. Valeria Souza, Department of Evolutionary Ecology, Institute of Ecology, UNAM Mexico. "Cuatro Cienegas, Coahuila:

            an endangered microbial Galapagos." Co-sponsored with Molecular Biology. Hosts: Steve Jackson and Naomi Ward

APRIL

  4        Dr. Miles Silman, Biology Department, Wake Forest University. “Breaking the grass ceiling: climate change, humans, andtree diversity in the Tropical Andes biodiversity hotspot.” Host: Steve Jackson.

11        Michael Urban, M.S. Candidate, Department of Botany, University of Wyoming. “A record of fine scale vegetation dynamics from adjacent lakes in north central Wisconsin: A high resolution plant macrofossil study.”  Host: Steve Jackson

18        Dave Scott, M.S. Candidate, Department of Botany, University of Wyoming. "A Floristic Inventory of Grand Teton National Park and the Pinyon Peak Highlands, WY." Host: Ron Hartman

25        Joshua Hemenway, M.S. Candidate, Department of Botany, University of Wyoming. Phylogeography of the

             late-stage ectomycorrhizal mushroom Russula brevipes in western North America. Host: Steve Miller

MAY

    2      Nicholas Dowie, M.S. Candidate, Department of Botany, University of Wyoming. The Phylogeography of an ectomycorrhizal symbiont associated with Pterospora andromeda in the central Rocky Mountains. Host: Steve Miller