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 | Connor Lewis & Charlotte Uden, PBIO Graduate Students | Titles TBA |
| Apr 16 | Canceled | Canceled |
| Apr 23 | Morgan Southgate/Grace Glynn (joint talk) & Meredith Naughton, PBIO Field Naturalist Graduate Students | Titles TBA |
| Apr 30 | Aayudh Das & Berke Tinaz, PBIO Graduate Students | Titles TBA |