Seminars are held on Thursdays 4:15-5:15 in room Jeffords 110. People gather beforehand to socialize in room Jeffords 326 beginning at 3:45pm.
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 accessed here.
Spring 2023 Marvin Seminar Schedule
| Date | Speaker | Seminar Title |
|---|---|---|
| Feb 23 | No Marvin Seminar | Attend the CALS Vogelmann Award Seminar by Eric Bishop von Wettberg |
| Mar 2 | Dr. Jill Preston, UVM Plant Biology | Evolution of temperate grasses in response to global cooling, drying and warming |
| Mar 9 | Masoumeh Khodaverdi, UVM Plant Biology graduate student | Shaping Vernalization Sensitivity In Melica and the Role of Climate Change |
| Mar 16 | No Marvin Seminar | Spring Break |
| Mar 23 | Dr. Phil Lintilhac, UVM Plant Biology | Title TBA |
| Mar 30 | Regina Visconti & Anoob Prakash, UVM Plant Biology graduate students | VTI13 required for Root and Root Hair Growth Detecting signals of polygenic adaptation in the face of demographic history and population structure in red spruce (Picea rubens SARG) |
| Apr 6 | Julie Raiguel & Charlotte Cadow, UVM Plant Biology graduate students | Title TBA Black Ash: Managing a Culturally and Ecologically Significant Tree in the Time of EAB |
| Apr 13 | Erica Hample & Morgan Southgate, UVM Plant Biology graduate students | Montpelier PLACE: Ecological assessment, management, and connection in Vermont's capital city Eco-evolutionary mechanisms of diversification in the Adiantum pedatum complex (Pteridaceae) |
| Apr 20 | Hayley Kolding & Sonya Kaufman, UVM Plant Biology graduate students | Conserving Springs and Streams in Oregon's High Desert |
| Apr 27 | Dr. Thierry Ghislain, University of Sherbrook | Title TBA |
| May 4 | Sarah Morris, UVM Plant Biology graduate student & Art Gilman, Pringle Herbarium Staff | Disentangling the systematics of Colombian Pleopeltis (Polypodiaceae) New Perspectives on Diversity of Vascular Plants in Vermont |
| May 11 4:30 start | Dylan O'Leary, UVM Plant Biology graduate student | Restoration prioritization in the sagebrush sea: Geospatial techniques and ground truthing |