Seminars are held on Wednesdays from 1:00-2:00pm in Jeffords Room 110. People gather afterward to socialize in Jeffords Room 111 between 2:00-2:30pm.
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.
Fall 2024 Marvin Seminar Schedule
Date | Speaker | Seminar Title |
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No Marvin Seminar | First week back! | |
Sept 18 | Speaker: Joshua Faulkner,UVM ALE | Seminar Title: Soil Health, Nutrient Cycling, and Water Quality Research and Extension in Vermont’s Changing Climate |
Sept 25 | Speaker: Mark Isselhardt , UVM Extension | Seminar Title: Pure Maple Syrup: Timeless and Thoroughly Modern |
Oct 2 | Speaker: Walter Poleman and Hans Estrin, Director of Field Naturalist Masters Program, UVM Extension | Seminar Title: The Ecological Planning Laboratory |
Oct 16 | Speaker: Charlotte Uden and Greta Savitsky, Plant Biology graduate students | Seminar Title: Modeling Feedbacks in Boreal Carbon, Temperature, and Vegetative Dynamics; Modeling Lightning in the Northeastern United States |
Oct 23 | Speakers: Nicole Gorman and Nora Heaphy, Plant Biology graduate students | Seminar Title: Mechanisms of Endosomal Trafficking: Characterizing Retriever and its Role in Root and Root Hair Growth; Introgression as a source of genetic rescue in a keystone northern forest species |
Oct 30 | Speaker: Toby Kellogg, Danforth Science Center | Seminar Title: 20 million years of consistency: morphological and genomic evolution in a large group of grasses |
Nov 6 | Speaker TBD | Seminar Title: TBD |
Nov 13 | Speaker: Baxter Worthing and Ashley Lantigua, Plant Biology graduate students | Seminar Title:"Predicting Phenology in the Future Using Poplar Tree Common Gardens" |
Nov 20 | Speaker: Hannah Shafer and Rachel Wilson, Plant Biology graduate students | Seminar Title: TBD |
Nov 27 | Thanksgiving Break | No Seminar |
Dec 4 | Speaker: Elise Lauterbur, BilDS | Seminar Title: Evolutionary, Patterns, Processes and diversity of adaptation to ecological threats |
Dec 11 | Speaker: Sandra Nnadi, Plant Biology graduate student | Seminar: TBD
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