Seminars for the Fall 2020 semester are being held remotely via Microsoft Teams on Thursdays 4:15-5:15. If you would like to attend, please email plantbio@uvm.edu to request a link to the live-streaming seminar.
The current seminar schedule is posted below. Marvin Seminar schedules for previous academic years can be accessed here.
Fall 2020 Marvin Seminar Schedule
| Date | Speaker | Seminar Title |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 17 | Dr. Jane Molofsky, UVM Plant Biology | CANCELED (Taming the Black Swan: An ecological approach to controlling SARS-Cov-2) |
| Sep 24 | Dr. Hosna Jabbari, University of Victoria, BC | COVID-19: past, present, future |
| Oct 1 | Open | Open |
| Oct 8 @4pm | Dr. Jeanne Harris, UVM Plant Biology | The quest for the top 10 unanswered questions in molecular plant-microbe interactions |
| Oct 15 | Open | Open |
| Oct 22 | Dr. Iván Jiménez, Missouri Botanical Garden | The Nature of Espeletia Species |
| Oct 29 | Dr. Michael Sundue, UVM Plant Biology | Using Large-Scale Integrative Analyses to Understand Global Patterns of Fern Diversity |
| Nov 5 | Bertrand Black, UVM Plant Biology Graduate Student | Historical biogeography of the Lastreopsid ferns (Dryopteridaceae): what is the role of Antarctica? |
| Nov 12 | Rachel Wilson, UVM Plant Biology Graduate Student | Is VTI13 involved in turnover of plasma membrane proteins needed for growth? |
| Nov 19 | Anoob Prakash, UVM Plant Biology Graduate Student | Climate Adaptation in Red Spruce: determinate growth in an increasingly indeterminate world |
| Nov 26 | No Seminar | Thanksgiving |
| Dec 3 | Dr. Sally Aitken, University of British Columbia | Long, slow lives facing rapid change: Climate adaptation in conifers |
| Dec 10 | Sandra Nnadi, UVM Plant Biology Graduate Student | Examining effects of the fungal microbiome on interactions with pollinators in highbush blueberry |