Plan to attend these chosen Symposia and Colloquia 

Monday, July 29 

Morning

• The Potential of Machine Learning for Plant Biology
  Organized by:  Pamela Soltis, University of Florida

• Dynamics and Demography of Alpine Islands
  Organized by:  Seema Sheth, Dena Grossenbacher, and Meagan Oldfather

• Species delimitation in polyploid complexes
  Organized by:  Christoph Oberpriele  and Bengt Oxelman

Afternoon

• Phylogenomic Perspectives on Reproductive Isolation and Introgression
  Organized by: Deren Eaton, Columbia University

• The evolution of functional traits in plants: is the giant still sleeping?
  Organized by:  Chase Mason, Juliana Medieros and Christina (Chris) Caruso

• Pacific Biogeography
  Organized by:  Benjamin Potter and Warren Wagner

Tuesday, July 30

Morning

• Green Land: Multiple Perspectives on Green Algal Evolution and the Earliest Land Plants.
  Organized by:  Richard McCourt, Academy of Natural Sciences 

• Celebrating 15 years of SERNEC: Where we've been, where we are, & where we are going
  Organized by:  Zack Murrell and Michael Denslow

• Ericaceae: Systematics, Ecology, and Evolution
  Organized by:  Benjamin Potter

• Time to dig: the importance of underground storage organs in plant evolution
  Organized by:  Cody Howard

Afternoon

• Crop Wild Relatives and Land Races: the Sky Islands of Southwest North American Agriculture
  Organized by: Laura Klein, Saint Louis University

• Reticulate evolution and biogeography in ferns and lycophytes - a colloquium honoring Dr. David Barrington
  Organized by:  Weston Testo, Nikisha R Patel, and Michael A Sundue

• Sexual selection in flowering plants: traits, processes, and estimation
  Organized by:  Shumei Chang

Wednesday, July 31

Morning

• At the Intersection of Applied and Academic Botany: Fertile Ground for an Interdisciplinary Botanical Renaissance
  Organized by:  Scott Schutte, Western Pensylvania Conservancy

• Donald J. Pinkava’s legacy – the ASU Herbarium in the Sonoran Desert
  Organized by:  Kathleen Pigg and Steffi Ickert-Bond

• Ecological factors that drive patterns of population genetic structure in plants
  Organized by:  Diana Gamba and Nathan Muchhala  

Afternoon

• Life without water: evolution and adaptation of xeric plants
  Organized by:  Karolina Heyduk, Yale University

• Questioning Species and Species Complexes: A Colloquium in Honor of Dr. R. James Hickey
  Organized by:  Melanie Link-Perez and Michael Barker

• Floristics in North America: Current needs, priorities, and opportunities
  Organized by:  Neil Snow 

Post Conference Symposium - Sponsored by SHC and iDigBio

Thursday,  August 1
7:30 am - 1:00 pm

• Early-career innovators in herbarium-enabled research and future-proofing for the next waves of inventiveness