Botany 2024 - Featured Speakers
(Times subject to change)
Plenary Speaker
Sunday, June 16
7:30 pm
Dr. Colin Khoury
Food plant diversity in a changing world
Director of Science and Conservation
at the San Diego Botanic Garden
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Distinguished Ethnobotany Speaker
Monday, June 17th
4:00 pm
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
Wednesday, June 19
4:30 pm
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
Monday, June 17
11:00 am
Kaya DeerInWater
Neshnabe Relationships with Plants of Western Michigan
Member of the Citizen Band of Potawatomi
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Annals of Botany Special Lecture
Tuesday, June 18
1:30 pm
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
Tuesday, June 18
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
Tuesday, June 18
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
Tuesday, June 18
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
Plant diversity and food sovereignty: Stewarding species and varieties in Ethiopia
Clark University
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