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The lab makes its annual visit prior to graduation in May 2008. Here are some examples of the fun we had (click on image to enlarge)....
   
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The Specht and O'Grady labs head to Limantour for a day at the beach. Click here to see pictures of fun, food, sunsets and dogs....
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Heather, Chelsea and Ruth Kirkpatrick (future postdoc) travel to Mexico to collect ferns on a UC MEXUS grant. CLICK HERE to see pictures of their travels!
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The lab visits the UC Botanical Garden prior to graduation in May 2007.
click here to see what sort of fun was had....
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Collecting California Alliums, 2007
Nhu, Chelsea and Heather at Stebbins Cold Canyon
Heather digging for bulbs...
Heather and Nhu take a lunch break after finding A. sharsmithii (below)
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Collecting Carnivorous Plants: California Carnivores 2007
What, no carnivores here?? Nhu, Tanya, Chelsea and Veder (honorary lab member) take a quick hike after spending the day at California Carnivores.
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Chelsea travels to Holland to visit Paul and Hiltje Maas, experts on Costaceae. Here we are at Burger's Bush, seeing what we sampled from their wonderful rainforest collections.
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Dr Bruce Kirchoff from University of North Carolina visits the lab and gives Madelaine and Sankar the low down on ginger flower and inflorescence morphology. Dr. Kirchoff's visit to Berkeley was funded by MORPH, an NSF-funded program serving the plant evolution and development community of researchers.
Checking out the new Core Duo iMacs. They not only have a super-speed intel processor, but also a really cool screen-cam. Hillary, Debra, and Yizhuo (from afar) take their self-portrait while analyzing DNA sequence data.
After a long week in the Specht Lab, Heather takes a self-portrait with the screen-cam. And if you think plant biology isn't dangerous, just look what DNA sequence editing can do to you...
Who ever said collecting Heliconia couldn't be fun?? (This is Mada Zopf, undergraduate at Smith College, during a summer internship sposored by the Smith Botanic Garden and the Smithsonian Institution).
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