The series aims to bring the latest discoveries in plant science, as well as research linked to the plant collection at CUBG, to our visitors in a 30 minute nutshell.
“Fabulous – clear, concise, deep understanding of a complex subject beautifully presented for the expert and amateur alike.”
Science on Sundays in 2024
These will be in-person plant science talks taking place in the Botanic Garden Classroom for those visiting the Garden on the day.
Talk programme 2024:
17 March – Dr Anne Dubéarnès, Cambridge University Herbarium, University of Cambridge An immense archive of plant diversity: the many uses of the Cambridge University Herbarium
21 April – Dr Raphaella Hull, Cambridge University Botanic Garden, University of Cambridge The world beneath a wildflower meadow
19 May – Dr Jen McGaley, Crop Science Centre, University of Cambridge Uncovering the microscopic world of mycorrhizal fungi
2 June – Thomas Idris Marquand, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge Why wetlands? The role of wetlands in climate change
16 June – Dr Daniel Fuks, Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge Between Roman Agricultural Diffusion and Islamic Green Revolution: Crop diffusion in the 1st millennium CE Middle East and Mediterranean
21 July – Dr Courtney Currier, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge The extraordinary ecology of drylands
18 August – Dr Olaf Kranse, Crop Science Centre, University of Cambridge Engineering to study biology: building tools to study an economically important crop disease