Botany 2022 Colloquia and Symposia 

Presented Live Alaska Time
Monday Morning  8:00 am - noon
Resilience in polluted environments; biomonitoring, management, and restoration strategies

Organized by: 

  • José M. Cunill-Flores, Universidad Politécnica Metropolitana de Puebla
  • Estefanía Martínez-Tavera, Universidad Popular Autónoma de Puebla 
The impact of climate change on plant physiology in natural and agricultural systems

Organized by: 

  • Jessica Savage University of Minnesota, Duluth
  • Financially Supported by the BSA Economic Botany Section

Monday Afternoon  1:30 - 5:00 pm
Polymorphism - from morphology to interactions

Organized by: 

  •  Vinita Gowda - Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Bhopal, India
  • Ajith Asokan - Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Bhopal, India
Tuesday Morning - 8:00 - noon
Ferns at the extreme: the case of moonworts, grape-ferns, and adder’s tongues of the family Ophioglossaceae

Organized by:

  • Jason Grant, University of Neuchatel, Switzerland
  • Don Farrar, Iowa State University
From the backbone to diversification: unraveling the evolutionary history of Ericales

Organized by:

  • Stephen Smith, University of Michigan
  • Deise Gonçalves, University of Michigan
  • Pam Soltis, University of Florida
  • Doug Soltis, University of Florida

Tuesday Afternoon  1:30 - 5:00 pm
Dryland mosses: adaptations to life on the edge, from genes to ecosystems

Organized by: 

  • Anita Antoninka, Northern Arizona University
  • Jenna Ekwealor, Smithsonian Institution
Wednesday Morning 8:00 - Noon
Innovation and Novelty in the Evolution of Plants

Organized by:

  • Caroline Parins-Fukuchi, University of Toronto
  • Jeremy M. Beaulieu, University of Arkansas
  • Financially Supported by the BSA Development and Structural Section
Bryophytes and Lichens on the Edges of Changing Ecosystems

Organized by: 

  • Scott Schuette, ABLS President, Western Pennsylvania Conservancy-PA Natural Heritage Program 

Wednesday Afternoon 1:30 -5:00 pm
Paths forward: Engaging Indigenous science and knowledge

Organized by:

  • Az (Ashley A.) Klymiuk, Field Museum and University of Manitoba
  • Warren Cardinal-McTeague, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
  • Karolina Heyduk, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
  • Financially Supported by ABLS, and the BSA Development and Structural, Economic Botany and Teaching Sections