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 found here.
Spring 2026 Marvin Seminar Schedule
| Date | Speaker | Seminar Title |
|---|---|---|
| January 21 | Prof. Liana Burghardt, Penn State | Picking Partners: Host selectivity and rewards in the legume-rhizobia symbiosis |
| January 28 | NO SEMINAR | |
| February 4 | NO SEMINAR | |
| February 11 | Isaac Buabeng & Julie Raiguel-Meis, Plant Biology PhD students | Assessing Community Invasibility as an Effect of the Functional Differentiation of Invasive Species to the Edge of Trait Space An Investigation of Abscisic Acid Localization in the Developing Root Tip |
| February 18 | Prof. Dominique Gravel, Université de Sherbrooke | The challenge of predicting forest response to climate change from landscape to individual scales |
| February 25 | Nicole Phelan, Plant Biology PhD student | Polyploidy, cryptic species, and surprise hybridization in Vermont’s wild sunflowers |
| March 4 | Prof. John Salogiannis, Larner College of Medicine | TBA |
| March 11 | NO SEMINAR | SPRING BREAK |
| March 18 | Dr. Ari Freedman, UVM Plant Biology | The role of behavior in human and animal infectious disease dynamic: considerations for modeling and control |
| March 25 | Regina Visconti, Plant Biology PhD student | TBA |
| April 1 | Dr. Karsten Fatur, UVM Plant Biology | Names in Search of a Species: Ethnobotanical research on proposed identities of plants in mythology |
| April 8 | Prof. Guillaume de Lafontaine, Université du Québec à Rimouski | TBA |
| April 15 | Nico Zapata, Plant Biology PhD student | Integrating Evolutionary, Biogeographic and Natural History perspectives of tropical fern genus Pityrogramma |
| April 22 | Emily DeAlto & Laura Costello, Field Naturalist master's students | Twenty Feet of Peat: A Paleoecological Investigation into the Origins of the UVM Natural Areas Program's New Peatland – Joe's Pond, Morrisville Crowds, Cameras, and Citations: Exploring Orchid-Insect Relationships Using iNaturalist, Fieldwork, and the Literature |
| April 29 | Naya Banerjee & Matthias Sirch, Field Naturalist master's students | Tracks and Taps: Wildlife Habitat and Presence in the Sugarbush at Proctor Maple Research Center Vermont’s Sugaring Operations and Potential Implications for Wildlife |
| May 6 | Ben Applegate & Greta Aiken, Field Naturalist master's students | River Conservation Opportunities in Northeastern Vermont: A Scoping Study of Partnership Wild & Scenic Designation for the Clyde River A Landscape Inventory and Assessment of Londonderry, Vermont's Town Lands |