PUBLIC LECTURE Professor Dianne Edwards MA,
PhD, ScD(Cantab) CBE ,
cardiff university
Come and joing the Royal Society of Biology East Anglia in a celebration of Paleobotany. On Friday Febuarury 16th 2018 Professor Dianne Edwards will give a lecture at The Sainsbury Laboratory, University of Cambridge. This is a free lecture to attend and will include a networking opportunity with drinks. Booking is essential! Please use the link below to book your place. Children of all ages are welcome (we recommend ages 12 and up). The dress code for this event is smart casual.
Professor Edwards is a Distinguished Research Professor at Cardiff University. She is also a Fellow of the Royal Society, Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, an honorary Fellow at the University of Wales, Swansea, a Corresponding Member of the Botanical Society of America. Among Edwards's most notable works are the discovery of vascular tissue in Cooksonia, the description and analysis of stomata in early land plants, and very early liverwort-like plants. The charcoalified nature of many of her fossils have enabled her to prove that wildfires took place in the Siluruan period. She has also worked on several enigmatic fossils such as Nematothallus, Tortilicaulis and Prototaxites. She is the author or co-author of a considerable number of botanical names of fossil plants, such as Danziella D.Edwards (2006) and Demersatheca C.-S. Li & D.Edwards (1996).
The running order for the afternoon will be as follows:
14:00 Arrival and Registration
14:15 Welcome by Chair
14:20 Plants Invade The Land: The green revolution, Prof Dianne Edwards
15:20 Coffee, tea, biscuits and networking
16:00 So What? Why Study These Early Land Plants?, Dr Jenny Morris
17:00 Fairwell by Chair
17:00 – 19:00 Optional Further Networking
If you have any accessibility or other special requirements, please let me know as soon as possible at [email protected].
Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any questions and we look forward to seeing you next week.
Professor Edwards is a Distinguished Research Professor at Cardiff University. She is also a Fellow of the Royal Society, Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, an honorary Fellow at the University of Wales, Swansea, a Corresponding Member of the Botanical Society of America. Among Edwards's most notable works are the discovery of vascular tissue in Cooksonia, the description and analysis of stomata in early land plants, and very early liverwort-like plants. The charcoalified nature of many of her fossils have enabled her to prove that wildfires took place in the Siluruan period. She has also worked on several enigmatic fossils such as Nematothallus, Tortilicaulis and Prototaxites. She is the author or co-author of a considerable number of botanical names of fossil plants, such as Danziella D.Edwards (2006) and Demersatheca C.-S. Li & D.Edwards (1996).
The running order for the afternoon will be as follows:
14:00 Arrival and Registration
14:15 Welcome by Chair
14:20 Plants Invade The Land: The green revolution, Prof Dianne Edwards
15:20 Coffee, tea, biscuits and networking
16:00 So What? Why Study These Early Land Plants?, Dr Jenny Morris
17:00 Fairwell by Chair
17:00 – 19:00 Optional Further Networking
If you have any accessibility or other special requirements, please let me know as soon as possible at [email protected].
Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any questions and we look forward to seeing you next week.
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