Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research
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Seminar Program 2002
The Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research holds a lunch time seminar series. The seminars, held in the herbarium tearoom at 12:30, are usually on the first Thursday of the month however these dates can vary due to availability of speakers. Topics vary from systematics to ecology and conservation biology among others areas of interest to people at the Centre. Speakers include scientists for the Centre, Canberra area scientists as well as visitors.
If you would like to speak or know of visitors that would like to participate in the seminar series please contact Bo Wang (Bo.Wang@csiro.au).
The draft schedule of seminar speakers is as follows:
| Date | Day | Time | Speaker | Topic |
| 30-Jan | Wed | 12:30 | Mark Gardener | The management of invasive plants in the Galapagos Islands |
| 7-Feb | Thu | 12:30 | Summer students | Summer Student Symposium |
| Danielle Medek: Is there more than one species in the Asterella drummondii complex of the NSW region? | ||||
| Alison Skinner: Impact of tree isolation on seed set, seed size and viability in Eucalyptus benthamii | ||||
| Alex Roberts: An assessment of species richness within the Labiate genus Teucrium in Australia | ||||
| Radhika Murti: Variation in root set on selected Eucalyptus grandis cuttings | ||||
| Luke Barrett: Ecological dynamics and coevolution in plant-pathogen metapopulations | ||||
| 7-Mar | Thu | 12:30 | Steve Rogers | |
| 4-Apr | Thu | 12:30 | Christine Cargill | The complexities of the simple Thalloid Liverwort suborder Fossombroniineae within Africa, Southwest Asia and India |
| 2-May | Thu | 12:30 | Linda Broadhurst | Patterns of genetic variation in the West Australian flora |
| 6-Jun | Thu | 12:30 | Lyn Craven | Sweeping the landscape: Broombush in Western Australia (Myrtaceae, Melaleuca uncinata and allies) |
| 4-Jul | Thu | 12:30 | ||
| 1-Aug | Thu | 12:30 | ||
| 5-Sep | Thu | 12:30 | Bob Godfree | |
| 3-Oct | Thu | 12:30 | ||
| 7-Nov | Thu | 12:30 | ||
| 5-Dec | Thu | 12:30 | Peter Thrall | Theoretical and empirical studies of host-pathogen coevolution: The Linum-Melampsora |