2027 - Donald R. Kaplan Memorial Lecture
2027 - Donald R. Kaplan Memorial Lecture supports an invited scholar’s talk on comparative development or morphology at Botany 2027 to share new insights with a general botanical audience.
Funder: Botanical Society of America
Due Dates: October 1, 2026 (Nominations open) | January 15, 2027 (Nomination deadline) | January 16, 2027 (Evaluation opens) | February 16, 2027 (Evaluation closes) | July 31–August 4, 2027 (Conference)
Funding Amounts: $500 honorarium, conference registration, and some travel expenses
Summary: Honors a nominated scholar with support to present a lecture on comparative development or morphology at Botany 2027.
Key Information: This is a speaker nomination opportunity, not funding for a separate research project.
Description
The Botanical Society of America’s Donald R. Kaplan Memorial Lecture in Comparative Development honors a scholar invited to speak at the annual Botany Conference. The 2027 lecture will take place in Buffalo, New York. Established in 2008, the lecture commemorates Kaplan’s contributions to botanical knowledge and promotes his research interests through a synthetic talk for a general botanical audience.
Comparative development encompasses developmental phenomena related to the generation of form in photosynthetic organisms, including cyanobacteria, algae, and plants. Relevant approaches include morphology, anatomy, paleobotany, genomics, phylogenetics, evolutionary biology, physiology, biophysics, and biochemistry. The lecture emphasizes comparative questions of homology versus analogy, combining a topic overview with novel insights from new or newly analyzed data.
