
Seminars are held on Thursdays 4:30-5:30 in room Jeffords 110. People gather beforehand to socialize in room Jeffords 326 beginning at 4:00pm.
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.
Fall 2023 Marvin Seminar Schedule
Date | Speaker | Seminar Title |
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Aug 31 | Jason Mazurowski | The Bees of Burlington: Exploring the surprising diversity of our urban wilds |
Sep 7 | No Marvin Seminar | Department welcome event |
Sep 14 | No Marvin Seminar | Celebration for Dave & Cathy |
Sep 21 | Open | Open |
Sep 28 | Baxter Worthing and Rachel Wilson, UVM Plant Biology graduate students | Finding the Hidden Genomic Structural Variation Involved in Poplar Tree Hybridization Title TBA |
Oct 5 | Connor Lewis and Bertrand Black, UVM Plant Biology graduate students | Crosstown Traffic: Probing the Intersection of Vesicular Trafficking Pathways in Arabidopsis thaliana Target Capture Sequencing Reveals Hidden Diversity in the Lady Fern (Athyrium filix-femina) Species Complex in the Americas |
Oct 12 | No Marvin Seminar | Department retreat on October 13 |
Oct 19 | Dr. Alison Roberts, University of Rhode Island | An alternate route for cellulose biosynthesis |
Oct 26 | Dr. Siva Sankari, Stower's Institute | Title TBA |
Nov 2 | Dr. Cara Haney, University of Pittsburgh | Title TBA |
Nov 9 | Ashley Lantigua and Charlotte Uden, UVM Plant Biology graduate students | Titles TBA |
Nov 16 | Dr. David Des Marais, MIT | The genetic control of growth rate and the evolution of life history strategies |
Nov 23 | No Marvin Seminar | Thanksgiving |
Nov 30 | Hannah Shafer and Sandra Nnadi, UVM Plant Biology graduate students | Titles TBA |
Dec 7 | Mark Mullinger and Greta Savitsky, UVM Plant Biology graduate students | Titles TBA |