2004 Janet Meakin Poor Research SymposiumCelebrating
10 Years of the Plant Conservation Alliance: |
Chicago Botanic Garden, Glencoe, Illinois
Tuesday, October 26, 2004
8:30 a.m. |
Check-in |
9 a.m. |
Welcome Alsdorf Auditorium |
9:10 a.m. |
Keynote
Address: The power of collaborative conservation (Abstract | Slides) Alsdorf Auditorium Ken Berg, Manager, Western Washington Fish and Wildlife Office, Lacey, Washington |
10 a.m. |
Refreshment
Break North Gallery |
10:30 a.m. |
Addressing invasive species
issues by building effective partnerships (Abstract | Slides) Alsdorf Auditorium Sarah Reichard, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, University of Washington, Center for Urban Horticulture, Seattle, Washington |
11:20 a.m. |
Does inter-regional floristic
relatedness foster plant invasion? Exchanges between eastern Asia and
North America (Abstract | Slides) Alsdorf Auditorium Richard Mack, Ph.D., Professor of Biological Sciences, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington |
12:10 p.m. |
Lunch Greenhouse Galleries |
1 p.m. |
Medicinal Plant Working Group -- to infinity, and beyond! (Abstract | Slides) Alsdorf Auditorium Patricia S. De Angelis, Ph.D., Botanist and Medicinal Plant Working Group Chair, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Arlington, Virginia |
1:50 p.m. |
Seeds of Success: Innovative
partnerships collecting native seed for restoration and conservation (Abstract | Slides) Alsdorf Auditorium Michael Way, Americas Coordinator, Millennium Seed Bank Project, Royal Botanic Garden, Kew, West Sussex, England |
2:40 p.m. |
Break North Gallery |
2:50 p.m. |
How long is long-term? Results
from 40 years of storing seeds at USDA's genebank (Abstract | Slides) Alsdorf Auditorium Christina Walters, Ph.D., USDA-ARS National Center for Genetic Resources Preservation, Fort Collins, Colorado |
3:40 p.m. |
Closing Keynote: Ten years
into the future: Restoring plant diversity and ecosystems (Abstract | Slides) Alsdorf Auditorium Don Falk, Ph.D., Research Associate, Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona |
4:30 p.m. |
Symposium Concludes |
5-6:30 p.m. |
Contributed Poster Session
and Reception South Greenhouse Gallery |
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