As part of the 2024 Summer Lecture Series at the University of Michigan Biological Station in northern Michigan, Dr. Tadashi Fukami, a professor of biology and Earth system science at Stanford University, will give the Bennett Lecture in Mycology and Plant Biology.

The event on the Pellston campus is free and open to the public.

Fukami is an ecologist known for exploring complex plant and animal communities with small-scale experiments. At Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve in California, he studies the interactions between sticky monkey flowers, the hummingbirds and insects that pollinate them, and the colonies of microbes that live in the nectar of these flowers.

Fukami’s talk at UMBS is titled “Alternative Community States in Floral Microbes.”

Founded in 1909, UMBS is one of the nation’s largest and longest continuously operating field research stations.

Laboratories and cabins are tucked into more than 10,000 acres along Douglas Lake just south of the Mackinac Bridge to support long-term climate research and education.