Invitation to the inaugural lecture of Norman Wickett

Plant Diversity in the High-Throughput Era – using genes, trees, and genomes to reconstruct evolutionary history

We cordially invite you to the inaugural lecture of Prof. Norman Wickett, Professor of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany at the University of Vienna. Join us when Prof. Wickett presents his work and vision for systematic and evolutionary botany.

Please register for the event below until 15 January 2025. We look forward to seeing you there!

When & Where
  • Date and time: 29 January 2025 at 17:00
  • Location: Small Ceremonial Hall of the University of Vienna (Kleiner Festsaal), Universitätsring 1, 1010 Vienna
Programme
  • Welcome by Christa Schnabl (Vice-Rector of the University of Vienna)
  • Opening words Karl-Heinz Wagner (Dean of the Faculty of Life Sciences)
  • Inaugural lecture Norman Wickett "Plant Diversity in the High-Throughput Era – using genes, trees, and genomes to reconstruct evolutionary history"

After the lecture, we would like to invite you to a small reception.

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About Norman Wickett

Norman Wickett studied Botany at the University of British Columbia, Canada and obtained his PhD in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from the University of Connecticut, USA in 2007. In the following years, he carried out postdoctoral work at The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) focused on adapting emerging genome-scale data to the study of plant diversity and evolution. He started his own research group in 2011 at the Chicago Botanic Garden and Northwestern University as part of the Plant Biology and Conservation Graduate Program, where he was funded by several awards from the US National Science Foundation to apply phylogenomic methods to the reconstruction of plant evolutionary histories. From 2022 to 2024 he was a full Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at Clemson University and in September 2024 moved to the University of Vienna as the Professor of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany.

Norman Wickett's research is focused on understanding the patterns and processes that underlay the origin and maintenance of plant diversity from deep-time scales to contemporary species radiations.