
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.
Spring 2023 Marvin Seminar Schedule
Date | Speaker | Seminar Title |
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Feb 23 | No Marvin Seminar | Attend the CALS Vogelmann Award Seminar by Eric Bishop von Wettberg |
Mar 2 | Dr. Jill Preston, UVM Plant Biology | Evolution of temperate grasses in response to global cooling, drying and warming |
Mar 9 | Masoumeh Khodaverdi, UVM Plant Biology graduate student | Shaping Vernalization Sensitivity In Melica and the Role of Climate Change |
Mar 16 | No Marvin Seminar | Spring Break |
Mar 23 | Dr. Phil Lintilhac, UVM Plant Biology | Title TBA |
Mar 30 | Regina Visconti & Anoob Prakash, UVM Plant Biology graduate students | VTI13 required for Root and Root Hair Growth Detecting signals of polygenic adaptation in the face of demographic history and population structure in red spruce (Picea rubens SARG) |
Apr 6 | Julie Raiguel & Charlotte Cadow, UVM Plant Biology graduate students | Title TBA Black Ash: Managing a Culturally and Ecologically Significant Tree in the Time of EAB |
Apr 13 | Erica Hample & Morgan Southgate, UVM Plant Biology graduate students | Montpelier PLACE: Ecological assessment, management, and connection in Vermont's capital city Eco-evolutionary mechanisms of diversification in the Adiantum pedatum complex (Pteridaceae) |
Apr 20 | Hayley Kolding & Sonya Kaufman, UVM Plant Biology graduate students | Conserving Springs and Streams in Oregon's High Desert |
Apr 27 | Dr. Thierry Ghislain, University of Sherbrook | Title TBA |
May 4 | Sarah Morris, UVM Plant Biology graduate student & Art Gilman, Pringle Herbarium Staff | Disentangling the systematics of Colombian Pleopeltis (Polypodiaceae) New Perspectives on Diversity of Vascular Plants in Vermont |
May 11 4:30 start | Dylan O'Leary, UVM Plant Biology graduate student | Restoration prioritization in the sagebrush sea: Geospatial techniques and ground truthing |