Botany 2024 - Featured Speakers
Plenary Speaker
Dr. Colin Khoury
Director of Science and Conservation
at the San Diego Botanic Garden
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Distinguished Ethnobotany Speaker
Mark Merlin
Back to the Past: Insights for the
Present and Future of Ethnobotany
Professor of Botany at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa
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Address of the Incoming BSA President
Jenny Xiang
Comprehending Biodiversity via Curiosity-Driven
Integrative Research to Aid Conservation and
Identify Resilience to Climate Change
North Carolina State University
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Regional Botany Special Lecture
Kaya DeerInWater
Member of the Citizen Band of Potawatomi
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Annals of Botany Special Lecture
Kathleen Kay
How pollinator shifts drive and maintain speciation:
insights from the Neotropical spiral gingers
Professor
Jean H. Langenheim Chair
Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
University of California Santa Cruz
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Address of the Incoming ASPT President
David Tank
Beyond the specimen: lessons from Wyoming on the
importance of broadening the herbarium’s audience
University of Wyoming
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BSA Emerging Leader
Joyce Gloria Onyenedum
How Plants Do the Twist: An Interdisciplinary Approach to
Elucidate the Evolution &
Development of Climbing Plants
Assistant Professor
& the Principal Investigator of the
Onyenedum Lab at New York University
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Kaplan Memorial Address
Cynthia Jones
A Meditation on Leaf Shape
Professor
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
University of Connecticut
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Society for Ethnobotany
Mid-Career Award Address
Morgan Ruelle
Clark University
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