51st Annual SCB Symposium: Birds, Bees, Flies, and Seeds

Southern California Botanist's 51st Annual Symposium Birds, Bees, Flies, and Seeds will focus on key mechanisms of plant reproduction: pollination biology and seed dispersal. Presentations will be split between to the two topics. We have an amazing lineup of speakers, ranging from some local folks doing amazing local things to nationwide experts pushing the fore front of pollinator and seed dispersal research. After the presentations, we will head over to California Botanic Garden for our poster session, mixer, reception catered by Just Vegana Taqueria, aaaand a performance from Southern California’s very own plant-based punk rock band, Sage Against the Machine! As always, the poster session and mixer are free to all symposium registrants, but if you would like to attend the reception and the show, you must purchase a reception ticket.

Lastly, as part of our ongoing commitment to increase accessibility and participation for diverse communities at SCB sponsored events (see SCB’s Diversity and Inclusion Statement) and in recognition of turbulent times in the federal sector, we are happy to offer a limited number of financial hardship awards to this year’s symposium. If you would like to attend this year’s symposium, but the cost is a barrier to your participation, please submit a Statement of Need (150-word limit) to [email protected] by 11:59pm September 21. We will let you know if you have been awarded by September 28.

Hope to see y'all there!

Info: Pollinator Shifts and Invasive Species: Implications for the Reproductive Ecology of the Endangered Chloropyron maritimum subsp. maritimum

Info: USGS Bee Laboratory

Info: Be back by 10:35 to participate in the Plant Pronunciation survey

Info: How Plants Fly

Info: Effects of super-abundant non-native honey bees on plants and pollinators in a biodiversity hotspot

Info: Be back by 1:25 to participate in the Plant Pronunciation survey

Info: The Underdog(/fly) of the I.E.

Info: Seed dispersal in the limestone endemic monkeyflowers

Info: Ecology and Conservation of the El Segundo Blue Butterfly

Info: Be back by 3:15 to participate in the Plant Pronunciation survey

Info: Scatter-hoarding rodents, Arctostaphylos, dispersal dynamics, and the path to evolutionary innovation

Info: The ABCs of California Native Bees

Info: Poster Session, CalBG, Sycamore Room

Info: Mixer at CalBG, open to everyone

Info: 6:30-8:00 - Dinner catered by Just Vegana tacos (vegan); 7:30-8:30 - Sage Against the Machine

Info: Southern California's very own plant-based punk rock band! (Must purchase symposium and reception tickets)

Host or Publisher Southern California Botanists