Botany 2021 Workshops

A wide range of scientific and educational workshops will be presented during Botany 2021 - Virtual!
All workshops are free and included in the registration fee.
Workshops require pre-registration.

Workshops will be presented as to not compete with the Scientific Sessions during Botany 2021 - Virtual! 

Tuesday, June 15
1:00 pm - 4:00 pm

• Ace it! - Practice, Get Feedback, Give a Better Talk.

  Organized by:
  Bruce Kirchoff, University of North Carolina, Greensboro
  Directions will be sent out for how to participate - but you must pre-register.

Sunday, July 18

All Day 9:00 am - 5:00 pm

• Using deep learning with digitized herbarium specimen image data

  Organized by:
  Richard Hodel, National Museum of Natural History
  Rebecca Dikow, National Museum of Natural History
  Mike Trizna, National Museum of Natural History
  Alex White, National Museum of Natural History
  Erica Krimmel, Florida State University
  Pamela Soltis, University of Florida

• Using Digitized Herbarium Data in Research: Applications for Ecology, Phylogenetics, and Biogeography

           Organized by:
           Pamela S. Soltis, University of Florida
           Douglas E. Soltis, University of Florida
           Ryan Folk, Mississippi State University

• de novo genome assembly and annotation with an emphasis on phylogenetic and population genetic studies

           Organized by:
           Jacob Landis, Cornell University and Boyce Thompson Institute
           Fay-Wei Li, Boyce Thompson Institute
           Suzy Strickler, Boyce Thompson Institute
           Andrew Nelson, Boyce Thompson Institute
           Adrian Powell, Boyce Thompson Institute
           Bikash Shrestha, University of Connecticut

• Introduction to High-Throughput Sequencing: Techniques, Applications, and Analysis

           Organized by:  
           James Beck, Wichita State University
           Nic Kooyers, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
           Brittany Sutherland, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
           Craig Barrett, West Virginia University
           Maribeth Latvis, South Dakota State University
           Michael McKain, University of Alabama
           Erin Sigel, University of New Hampshire

• Morphology and Classification of Compositae: from Cassini to NGS and back again

           Organized by:  
           J.M. Bonifacino, Universidad de la República
          G. Heiden, Embrapa Clima Temperado
          TICA - The International Compositae Alliance

Morning - Half-Day  9:00 am - 12:00 pm

• Navigating the submission and peer review process

           Organized by: 
           Michelle Gaynor, University of Florida
           Imeña Valdes, Northwestern University
           Brittany L. Sutherland, University of Virginia

• Developing CRISPR systems in non-genetic plant models: from plasmid design to transgenic plant

  Organized by:
  Shengchen Shan, Florida Museum of Natural History
  Douglas Soltis, Florida Museum of Natural History
  Bing Yang, Donald Danforth Plant Science Center
  Pamela Soltis, Florida Museum of Natural History
  W. Brad Barbazuk, University of Florida
  Kan Wang, Iowa State University

Morning  - 2 Hour  10:00 am - 12:00 pm

• Creating A Platform to Connect Research Across Plant Families

           Organized by:  
           Rocio Deanna, Natural History Museum, London, Facultad de Ciencias Químicas, Argentina; University of Colorado
           Lauren Eserman, Atlanta Botanical Garden, Atlanta, GA 30309
           Ana Rita Simoes, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, United Kingdom
          Chelsea Pretz, University of Colorado, Boulder
          Rebecca Hilgenhof, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh

• Deep Learning-Based Object Detection for Plant Scientists

           Organized by:
           Ulrich Lautenschlager, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany
           Tankred Ott, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany
           Prof. Dr. Christoph Oberprieler, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany 

• A Digital Flora of North America for a Digital Age: An Interactive Session with the Flora of North America

           Organized by: 
           Jocelyn Pender, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
           Beatriz Lujan-Toro, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
          Joel Sachs, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada

• Data Collection to Analysis: Landscape Genomics with CartograPlant and WildType

           Organized by:
           Jill Wegrzyn,  University of Connecticut
          Abdullah Almsaeed, University of Tennessee
          Margaret Staton, University of Tennessee
          Risharde Ramnath, University of Connecticut
          Irene Cobo-Simon, University of Connecticut

Afternoon 12:00 - 3:00 pm

• Finding consensus through policy: navigating polarizing issues to respond to MSA membership concerns.

  Organized by:
  Matthew Kasson, West Virginia University 
  Brian Lovett, West Virginia University

Half-Day  1:00 - 5:00 pm

• Herbariomics-based biodiversity research: from specimen to phylogeny

  Organized by:
  Liming Cai, University of California,  Riverside
  Hongrui Zhang, Harvard University
  Charles C. Davis, Harvard University

• Processing raw Illumina DNA data into alignments for phylogenetic analyses

           Organized by:
           Tobias Andermann, University of Gothenburg

Afternoon - 2 Hour  1:00pm - 3:00 pm

• Challenges and successes of research at primarily undergraduate institutions: Jumpstarting your 2021-2022 research program

           Organized by: 
           Jennifer Ison, The College of Wooster
           Jason Cantley, San Francisco State University
          Stephanie Lyon, The University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point
          Rachel M McCoy, Purdue University 

• Tips for Success: Applying to Graduate School.

            Organized by:
            Anna Monfils, Central Michigan University 

• Assessing sequence coverage and inverted repeat annotations among complete plastid genomes

    Organized by:
    Michael Gruenstaeudl, Freie Universitaet Berlin