Marvin Seminars are held on Wednesdays from 1:00pm-2:00pm in Jeffords room 110. Attendees gather afterward from 2:00pm-2:30pm to socialize in Jeffords room 111.
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 2025 Marvin Seminar Schedule
Fall 2025 Marvin Seminar Schedule
| Date | Speaker | Seminar Title |
|---|---|---|
| Sept 10 | TBD | TBD |
| Sept 17 | Greta Savitsky and Sarah Morris, Plant Biology Graduate Students | TBD; Sarah Morris: The Andes of Colombia and Ecuador as a Barrier to Fern & Lycophyte Species from Mesoamerica |
| Sept 24 | Jane Molofsky | Biogeographic Insights from South Korean Plant Invasions: From Local to Continental Patterns |
| Oct 1 | Nora Heaphy and Charlotte Uden, Plant Biology Graduate Students | TBD |
| Oct 8 | Hannah Shafer and Sandra Nnadi, Plant Biology Graduate Students | TBD |
| Oct 15 | Mark Mullinger and Ashley Lantigua, Plant Biology Graduate Students | TBD |
| Oct 22 | Joe Gunn | TBD |
| Oct 29 | David Barrington | TBD |
| Nov 5 | Masoumeh Khodaverdi and Yusuf Oyebamiji, Plant Biology Graduate Students | TBD; Yusuf Oyebamiji: Unravelling the Role of Intraspecific Hybridization in Seed Longevity and Phenotypic Plasticity of Arabidopsis |
| Nov 12 | Emily Larson | TBD |
| Nov 19 | Nicole Gorman and Rachel Wilson, Plant Biology Graduate Students | TBD |
| HOLIDAY | NO SEMINAR | NO SEMINAR |
| Dec 3 | Rei Jia, Plant Biology Graduate Student | TBD |