Speaker – Dr. Michael Kane 
Topic – Native Orchid Conservation In Florida
Meeting starts 7:00 – Doors open at 6:30.
Venice Community Center
Dr. Mike Kane
Professor of Environmental Horticulture
University of Florida
Mike Kane, a native of Rhode Island, is a professor in the Environmental Horticulture Department at UF in Gainesville where he has teaching and research responsibilities for 34 years. He teaches courses in plant micropropagation and graduate student professional development. His research emphasis is on development of plant tissue culture and greenhouse procedures for production of aquatic, wetland, coastal plants and especially the propagation and conservation native orchids. In 2009 he was elected as a Fellow of the Society for In Vitro Biology (SIVB). In 2014 he received the SIVB Life Time Achievement Award. He has a long-standing commitment to mentoring undergraduate and graduate students who have become both competent scientists and teachers. His wife, Roseann, recently retired from her position with the Alachua County School Board. Their daughter, Laura, her husband and 3-year-old granddaughter Madelyn, live in Denver, Colorado. He enjoys spending time with family, gardening, flying (42 years as a private pilot) and riding motorcycles.