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Featured Speakers
The invisible hand of
floral scent in plant-
pollinato r interactio ns
Annals of Botany
Speci al Lecture
Robert Raguso
<;ornell University
Wednesday, July 29
1 I :OOam - I 2:00pm
Salon 12
Robert Raguso grew to appreciate chemically mediated plant-insect interactions during his
undergraduate studies ofbutterflies at Yale University. He explored the genetics, physiology
and ecology of floral volatiles for his doctoral research at the University of Michigan, and
insect olfaction and behavior, along with the phylogenetic mapping of chemical floral
traits for his postdoctoral work at the University of Arizona During the past 20 years, he
has promoted the integrated study of floral scent by training nun1erous colleagues and
their students, writing several reviews on the subject and founding the Gordon Research
Conference on plant volatiles.
He currentlyserves as chairoftheDept ofNeurobiologyand Behaviorat Cornell Universit)~
a bully pulpit from which he promotes the study of"plant behavior'~ His ongoing research
includes multi-modal communication and signal evolution, including chemical mimicry
in deceptive pollination and "private channels" in obligate mutualism, and the impact of
geographic mosaics ofcoevolution on variation in plant-pollinator interactions.
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