On-campus seminars for the remainder of Spring 2020 are canceled. Some seminars will be held remotely via Microsoft Teams.
The current seminar schedule is posted below. Marvin Seminar schedules for previous academic years can be accessed here.
Spring 2020 Marvin Seminar Schedule
| Date | Speaker | Seminar Title |
|---|---|---|
| Jan 16 | Open | No Seminar |
| Jan 23 | Open | No Seminar |
| Jan 30 | Dr. Josef Gorres, UVM Plant & Soil Science | Alterations of Habitable Pore Space By Earthworms and Subsequent Effects on Soil Biogeochemistry |
| Feb 6 | Morgan Southgate & Baxter Worthing, PBIO Graduate Students | Micro- and macro- habitat differences among the members of the Adiantum pedatum complex at local and regional scales Predictability, Plasticity and Poplar Populations |
| Feb 13 | Dr. Michelle Facette, U Mass Amherst | Form and function of grass stomata |
| Feb 20 | Open | Open |
| Feb 27 | Dr. Emily Sessa, University of Florida | Fern tales at two scales: Using phylogenetics to study historical biogeography in Africa and community assembly in Florida |
| Mar 5 | Matt Grasso, PBIO Graduate Student | Using droplet-microfluidics to fabricate tunable hydrogel microenvironments for regenerating plant protoplasts |
| Mar 12 | Spring Break | No Seminar |
| Mar 19 | Eric Hagen & Grace Glynn, PBIO Field Naturalist Graduate Students | Postponed because of Covid-19 social distancing |
| Mar 26 | Blackboard Jungle Symposium | No Seminar (Blackboard Jungle has been canceled, and we still won't have seminar) |
| Apr 2 | Canceled | Canceled |
| Apr 9 | Charlotte Uden, PBIO Graduate Student (remotely via MS Teams; email plantbio@uvm.edu to request a link to the seminar meeting) | Using forest composition predicted by LPJGUESS to understand the role of fire on the pre European landscape of the Northeastern United States |
| Apr 16 | Connor Lewis, PBIO Graduate Student (remotely via MS Teams; email plantbio@uvm.edu to request a link to the seminar meeting) | The Retriever Complex and Endosomal Trafficking in Plants |
| Apr 23 | Morgan Southgate and Grace Glynn (joint talk), PBIO Graduate Students |
Herbaceous species composition and edaphic variation in a post-agricultural floodplain forest |
| Apr 30 | Aayudh Das & Berke Tinaz, PBIO Graduate Students | Understanding how Pooideae stress adaptations explain climatic distributions Medicago truncatula LATD/NIP expression and evolution of function |
| May 7 | Eric Hagen & Grace Glynn, PBIO Field Naturalist Graduate Students | Using relational values to guide biodiversity conservation in Vermont Assessing the ecological integrity of Maine's salt marshes |