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 |
|---|---|---|
| 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 Plasma membrane proteins involved in cell elongation and cell plate formation are cargo of VTI13 |
| 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 |