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.
Fall 2021 Marvin Seminar Schedule
| Date | Speaker | Seminar Title |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 2 | Department Welcome | Event to welcome new students |
| Sep 9 | Dr. Thibaut Capblancq, UVM Plant Biology (Postdoc in the Keller lab) | Two and a half years studying red spruce genomics: what have we learned? |
| Sep 16 | Dr. Phil Lintilhac, UVM Plant Biology | What’s sex got to do with it? Untangling the constraints on reproductive differentiation in plants |
| Sep 23 | Dr. Noah Whiteman, UC Berkeley, visiting the Preston lab in UVM Plant Biology | My model organism eats your model organism: Evolution of a Drosophila that attacks Arabidopsis |
| Sep 30 | Dr. Sebastien Lavergne, CNRS, France, visiting the Keller lab in UVM Plant Biology | The evolutionary and ecological assembly of the high alpine flora |
| Oct 7 | Dr. Hailing Jin, UC Riverside | Title TBA |
| Oct 14 | Dr. Andrew Nelson, Cornell | Title TBA |
| Oct 21 | Dr. Walter Poleman, UVM Plant Biology and RSENR | From Local to Global: UVM’s Role in the United Nations’ Sustainability Networks |
| Oct 28 | Open | Open |
| Nov 4 | Rachel Wilson, UVM Plant Biology Graduate Student | Title TBA |
| Nov 11 | Connor Lewis and Sandra Nnadi, UVM Plant Biology Gradute Students | Titles TBA |
| Nov 18 | Bertrand Black and Anoob Prakash, UVM Plant Biology Graduate Students | Titles TBA |
| Nov 25 | Thanksgiving | No Seminar |
| Dec 2 | Dr. Jane Molosky, UVM Plant Biology | Title TBA |