Ethan Thibault

Seminars are held on Wednesdays from 1:00-2:00pm in Jeffords Room 110. People gather afterward to socialize in Jeffords Room 111 between 2:00-2:30pm.

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.

Fall 2024 Marvin Seminar Schedule

DateSpeakerSeminar Title
 No Marvin SeminarFirst week back!
Sept 18Speaker: Joshua Faulkner,UVM ALESeminar Title: Soil Health, Nutrient Cycling, and Water Quality Research and Extension in Vermont’s Changing Climate
Sept 25Speaker: Mark Isselhardt , UVM ExtensionSeminar Title: Pure Maple Syrup: Timeless and Thoroughly Modern
Oct 2Speaker: Walter Poleman and Hans Estrin, Director of Field Naturalist Masters Program, UVM ExtensionSeminar Title: The Ecological Planning Laboratory
Oct 16Speaker: Charlotte Uden and Greta Savitsky, Plant Biology graduate students

Seminar Title: Modeling Feedbacks in Boreal Carbon, Temperature, and Vegetative Dynamics; Modeling Lightning in the Northeastern United States

Oct 23Speakers: Nicole Gorman and Nora Heaphy, Plant Biology graduate students

Seminar Title: Mechanisms of Endosomal Trafficking: Characterizing Retriever and its Role in Root and Root Hair Growth; Introgression as a source of genetic rescue in a keystone northern forest species

Oct 30Speaker: Toby Kellogg, Danforth Science Center

Seminar Title: 20 million years of consistency: morphological and genomic evolution in a large group of grasses

Nov 6Speaker TBD

Seminar Title: TBD

Nov 13Speaker: Baxter Worthing and Ashley Lantigua, Plant Biology graduate students

Seminar Title:"Predicting Phenology in the Future Using Poplar Tree Common Gardens"

Nov 20Speaker: Hannah Shafer and Rachel Wilson, Plant Biology graduate students

Seminar Title: TBD

Nov 27Thanksgiving Break

No Seminar

Dec 4Speaker: Elise Lauterbur, BilDS

Seminar Title: Evolutionary, Patterns, Processes and diversity of adaptation to ecological threats

Dec 11Speaker: Sandra Nnadi, Plant Biology graduate student

Seminar: TBD