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.
Fall 2025 Marvin Seminar Schedule
Fall 2025 Marvin Seminar Schedule
| Date | Speaker | Seminar Title |
|---|---|---|
| Sept 10 | NO SEMINAR | NO SEMINAR |
| Sept 17 | Greta Savitsky and Sarah Morris, Plant Biology Graduate Students | Carbon, Climate, and Collapse: Coupling Climate Feedbacks and Resource Dynamics to Predict Societal Collapse The Andes of Colombia and Ecuador as a Barrier to Fern & Lycophyte Species from Mesoamerica |
| Sept 24 | Prof. Jane Molofsky, Plant Biology | Biogeographic Insights from South Korean Plant Invasions: From Local to Continental Patterns |
| Oct 1 | Prof. Steve Keller, Plant Biology | Forecasting impacts and fostering resiliency to global change: a merging of ecology, genomics, and partner-ships |
| Oct 8 | Hannah Shafer and Sandra Nnadi, Plant Biology Graduate Students | Phase change in shoots: aging and development in annual vs. perennial Pooideae grasses The effect of mycorrhizal fungi on blueberry fruit anthocyanin and antioxidant content |
| Oct 15 | Nora Heaphy and Charlotte Uden, Plant Biology Graduate Students | Modeling shifting hybridization dynamics under climate change in a keystone northern forest tree A burning question: What turns lightning into wildfire? |
| Oct 22 | Dr. Joe Gunn, Postdoctoral researcher in ALE | Non-genetic inheritance of insecticide-induced phenotypic variation in the globally invasive Colorado potato beetle (Leptinotarsa decemlineata) |
| Oct 29 | Prof. David Barrington, Plant Biology | TBD |
| Nov 5 | Masoumeh Khodaverdi and Yusuf Oyebamiji, Plant Biology Graduate Students | Genetic Basis of Vernalization Sensitivity and Evidence of Local Adaptation in Temperate Melica Grasses Unravelling the Role of Intraspecific Hybridization in Seed Longevity and Phenotypic Plasticity of Arabidopsis |
| Nov 12 | Prof. Emily Larson, Université de Montréal | TBD |
| Nov 19 | Nicole Gorman and Rachel Wilson, Plant Biology Graduate Students | Using Proximity Labeling to Identify Retriever Interacting Proteins in Arabidopsis TBD |
| HOLIDAY | NO SEMINAR | NO SEMINAR |
| Dec 3 | Rei Jia and Ashley Lantigua, Plant Biology Graduate Students | Land Above the Trees: Alpine Plant Biodiversity in the Northeastern U.S. TBD |