Dr. John Hall
The Environmental & Plant Biology Colloquium Series presents Dr. John Hall on “Advances in the systematics of charophytes; synthesizing biological data in the genomic era” on Friday, Jan. 26, at 11:50 a.m. in Porter 104.
Hall is a Research Associate at the Research Greenhouse Complex at the University of Maryland’s College of Agriculture and Natural Resources.
Abstract: It is now well established that land plants evolved from freshwater green algae. The most closely related lineages of green algae are called “charophytes,” and they include about six lineages of living green algae. The stoneworts (Characeae) and the conjugating green algae (Zygnematophyceae) are the most species-rich extant lineages of charophytic green algae. Hall will give an update on research on charophytes with an emphasis on the evolution of the conjugating green algae (Zygnematophyceae). Recent advances and discoveries (partially funded by the National Science Foundation-Funded Green Algal Tree of Life project) will be discussed. He will present on recent efforts to synthesize phylogenetic, structural and fossil data on one genus of green algae: Cylindrocystis.
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