A wide range of scientific and educational workshops will be presented during Botany 2020 - Virtual!
All workshops are free and included in the registration fee.
Where indicated some workshops require preregistration.

Monday, July 27

12:00 pm - 3:00 pm 

• Ace it! - Give a Better Talk -   Must Pre-register
  Organized by:  Dr. Bruce Kirchoff, Department of Biology, University of North Carolina at Greensboro

Tuesday, July 28

10:00 am 5:00 pm

• De novo genome assembly and annotation with an emphasis on evolutionary and population genetic studies -Must Pre-register
  Organized by:  Jacob Landis, Cornell University, Fay-Wei Li, Boyce Thompson Institute, Suzy Strickler, Boyce Thompson Institute, Andrew Nelson, Boyce Thompson Institute

10:00 am - 2:00 pm

• Disentanglement of rings: a practical introduction to assembling plastomes and mitogenomes from NGS and LRS data.
  Organized by:  Jianjun Jin  Columbia University

Wednesday, July 29

10:00 am 5:00 pm

• Introduction to High-Throughput Sequencing: Techniques, Applications, and Analysis - Must Pre-register
  Organized by:  James Beck, Wichita State University, Nic Kooyers, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Brittany Sutherland, University of Louisiana at Lafayette

10:00 am - 2:00 pm

• Teaching Online Botany Laboratory for Non-majors
  Organized by:  Ben Montgomery  University of South Carolina Upstate

1:00 - 3:00 pm

• Tips for Success: Applying to Graduate School
  Presented by:  Anna Monfils

3:00 - 5:00 pm

• So you want a job: approaching the academic/research job market as a postdoc
  Organized by:  Stephanie Conway Harvard University, Rebecca Povilus Whitehead Institute

Thursday, July 30

10:00 - 12:00

• A Digital Flora of North America for a Digital Age: An Interactive Session with the Flora of North America - Must Pre-register
  Organized by:  Jocelyn Pender, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, James Macklin,  Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Joel Sachs, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada,  Beatriz Lujan-Toro, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Geoffrey Levin, Canadian Museum of Nature

1:00 - 3:00 pm

• Multi-dimensional instruction in Botany using the Four-Dimensional Ecology Education (4DEE) Framework:  How to transform lessons.Organized by:  Luanna Prevost, University of South Florida,  Diane Ebert-May, Michigan State University,  Jennifer Doherty, University of Washington,  Amanda Sorensen, Michigan State University

Friday, July 31

9:00 am - 12:00 pm

• The promises and perils of pigments: quantifying color in plants
  Organized by: Justen Whittall, Santa Clara University, Eduardo Narbona, Universidad Pablo de Olavide, and Jose Carlos Del Valle, Universidad de Sevilla

10:00 am 5:00 pm

• Using Digitized Herbarium Data in Research:  Applications for Ecology, Phylogenetics, and Biogeography
  Organized by:  Pamela S. Soltis, Univ of Florida,  Douglas E. Soltis, Univ of Florida

1:00 pm - 5:00 pm

• Phylotranscriptomic analyses: using RNA-seq data in phylogenetic reconstruction and evolutionary analyses
  Organized by:  Ya Yang, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities,  Stephen Smith, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor,  Diego Morales-Briones University of Minnesota-Twin Cities

CV/Resume Review and Coaching Sessions - Must Pre-register

Due to overwhelming interest, the BSA student representatives will continue to organize the CV/Resume Review Sessions for students and post-docs at Botany 2020! Sign-up for a 20 minute, one-on-one review session with professionals from the field to get feedback on your CV or resume. We will contact and assign reviewers after the slots being filled, and we will try our best to match your interest with reviewers' expertise!