Plant Sciences and Biodiversity Seminar Series 2009

Seminars are held at 1 pm on Wednesdays in the Mueller Hall of the National Herbarium Building Birdwood Avenue, South Yarra (Melway 2G A12)
Enquiries to Tom May (tom.may@rbg.vic.gov.au , 9252 2319)

March 11 (Jim Willis and Esma Salkin Studentship projects)
Colleen Peele
Just how many fungi does it take? Fungi associated with insect galls on glassworts

Lana Smart
Three new bolete truffles

Daniel Ohlsen
Taxonomic Revision of the Kerosene Bush, Ozothamnus hookeri

April 1 Mark Newbound (PhD student, Australian Research Centre for Urban Ecology, RBG Melbourne / The University of Melbourne)
Fungal diversity in remnant vegetation patches along an urban-rural gradient

 May 6
Rob Cross & Roger Spencer (Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne)
Sustainable living and horticulture – charting the way ahead

June 3
P. Brandon Matheny (University of Tennessee)
Out of the Palaeotropics? Historical biogeography and diversification of the cosmopolitan ectomycorrhizal mushroom family Inocybaceae

July 1 Geoff Carr (Ecology Australia)
Dianella: an overview of the genus

Karen Muscat (Honours student, La Trobe University / RBG Melbourne)
A close-up look at the Dianella tasmanica group

August 5
Mike Bayly (School of Botany, The University of Melbourne)
Reconstructing rutaceous relationships

September 2
Sara Maroske (School of Philosophy, Anthropology & Social Enquiry, The University of Melbourne / RBG Melbourne)
Australian and Indian plants: the politics of 19th Century systematics and biogeography

October 14
Gillian Brown (School of Botany, The University of Melbourne / RBG Melbourne)
Genetic variation of the native weed Cape Wattle (Paraserianthes lophantha)

October 27
Peter Bernhardt (Department of Biology, Saint Louis University) and Retha Meier (Educational Studies Faculty, Saint Louis University)
Darwin's Orchids

November 4
Honours and postgraduate student presentations