Marvin Seminars are held on Wednesdays from 1:00-2:00 p.m. in Jeffords 110. Attendees gather afterward from 2:00-2:30 p.m. in Jeffords 111 to socialize and enjoy refreshments.
Seminars this semester will be held in person with a simultaneous livestream via Microsoft Teams. If you would like to attend a seminar remotely, please email plantbio@uvm.edu to request a link to the MS Teams live stream.
The current seminar schedule is posted below. Marvin Seminar schedules for previous academic years can be found here.
Spring 2026 Marvin Seminar Schedule
| Date | Speaker | Seminar Title |
|---|---|---|
| January 21 | Prof. Liana Burghardt, Penn State | Picking Partners: Host selectivity and rewards in the legume-rhizobia symbiosis |
| January 28 | NO SEMINAR | |
| February 4 | NO SEMINAR | |
| February 11 | Isaac Buabeng & Julie Raiguel-Meis, Plant Biology PhD students | Assessing Community Invasibility as an Effect of the Functional Differentiation of Invasive Species to the Edge of Trait Space An Investigation of Abscisic Acid Localization in the Developing Root Tip |
| February 18 | Prof. Dominique Gravel, Université de Sherbrooke | The challenge of predicting forest response to climate change from landscape to individual scales |
| February 25 | Nicole Phelan, Plant Biology PhD student | TBA |
| March 4 | Prof. John Salogiannis, Larner College of Medicine | TBA |
| March 11 | SPRING BREAK | NO SEMINAR |
| March 18 | Dr. Ari Freedman, UVM Plant Biology | The role of behavior in human and animal infectious disease dynamic: considerations for modeling and control |
| March 25 | Regina Visconti & Nico Zapata, Plant Biology PhD students | TBA |
| April 1 | Dr. Karsten Fatur, UVM Plant Biology | Names in Search of a Species: Ethnobotanical research on proposed identities of plants in mythology |
| April 8 | Prof. Guillaume de Lafontaine, Université du Québec à Rimouski | TBA |
| April 15 | TBA | TBA |
| April 15 | TBA | TBA |
| April 22 | TBA | TBA |
| April 29 | TBA | TBA |