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 | Host peptides exploit symbiotic bacteria- Significance and applications |
| Nov 2 | Dr. Cara Haney, University of Pittsburgh | Balancing Immunity and Symbiosis in plant-microbiome interactions |
| Nov 9 | Ashley Lantigua and Charlotte Uden, UVM Plant Biology graduate students | Dissecting the growth and resilience relationship in the wild grass crop relative, Brachypodium distachyon Building a lighting model to improve predictions of wildfire ignition |
| 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 | The Evolution of Flowering Pathways in Temperate Pooideae Grasses Understanding the Fungal Microbiome of Northern Highbush Blueberry |
| Dec 7 | Mark Mullinger and Greta Savitsky, UVM Plant Biology graduate students | Phylogenetics of Melica: Digging into the Evolution of Bulbous and Cormous Grasses Simulating Global Change and Fire Dynamics in Boreal Forests |
Spring 2023 Marvin Seminar Schedule
| Date | Speaker | Seminar Title |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
Fall 2022 Marvin Seminar Schedule
| Date | Speaker | Seminar Title |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 22 | Dr. Sonali Roy, Tennessee State University | Peptides in Nodulation and Nitrogen Acquisition |
| Sep 29 | open | open |
| Oct 6 | Dr. Li Li, Cornell University (ARS) | Uncovering the regulatory mechanisms underlying pigment accumulation in plants |
| Oct 13 | Dr. Aman Husbands, University of Pennsylvania | The complex and reproducible nature of development |
| Oct 20 | Charlotte Uden, UVM Plant Biology graduate student | Modeling Fire Resilience of Oak Species in Northeastern Forests |
| Oct 27 | Dr. Tessa Burch-Smith, Danforth Plant Science Center | Beyond defense and nutrition: glucosinolates as signals for regulating intercellular communication in plants |
| Nov 3 | Dr. Rachael Floreani, UVM Engineered Biomaterials Laboratory | Plant Biopolymers: Medicine to Meat |
| Nov 10 | Hannah Shafer & Sandra Nnadi, UVM Plant Biology graduate students | Evolution of the (de)vernalization flowering response in temperate Pooideae grasses Examining the link between the root fungal microbiome and floral traits in Northern Highbush Blueberry |
| Nov 17 | Bertrand Black & Rachel Wilson, UVM Plant Biology graduate students | Research Update: A phylogenetic revision of Athyrium Sect. Athyrium in the Americas |
| Nov 24 | Thanksgiving | No Seminar |
| Dec 1 | Greta Savisky & Connor Lewis, UVM Plant Biology graduate students | Title TBA CCDC22 and CCDC93 Contribute to Root and Root Hair Growth in Arabidopsis |
| Dec 8 | Jessica Rubin, UVM Plant & Soil Science graduate student | Myco-Phytoremediation Research for Phosphorus Mitigation & Pollinator Habitat on Unceded Abenaki Territory at Shelburne Farms |
Spring 2022 Marvin Seminar Schedule
| Date | Speaker | Seminar Title |
|---|---|---|
| Feb 3 | Dr. Matt Kling, Postdoc in UVM Biology | Whither, whence, and whether: modeling the ability of plant biodiversity to track climate change |
| Feb 10 | Dr. Jennifer Mandel, University of Memphis | Phylogeny and evolution of the worlds largest group of flowering plants |
| Feb 17 | Tenaya Driller, PhD candidate at University of Canterbury, New Zealand | The mechanisms behind sap exudation in sugar maple (Acer saccharum) |
| Feb 24 | Open | Open |
| Mar 3 | Berke Tinaz and Baxter Worthing, UVM Plant Biology graduate students | Abscisic Acid (ABA) Localization in Mediago truncatula A New Age for Poplar Genomics |
| Mar 10 | Spring Break | No Seminar |
| Mar 17 | Julie Raiguel and Laura Hatmaker, UVM Plant Biology and Field Naturalist graduate students | The Functional Evolution of Transporters involved in the Legume-Rhizobum Symbiosis Balch Head Heath: A Coastal Raised Bog in Maine |
| Mar 24 | Dr. Dan Park, Purdue University | The ecological implications of intra- and inter-specific variation in phenological responses |
| Mar 31 | Sarah Morris and Zoe Portlas, UVM Plant Biology graduate students | Historical Biogeography of the Chocó Biogeographic Region Drought tolerance in invasive and native Centuarea populations |
| Apr 7 | Masoumeh Khodaverde and Morgan Southgate, UVM Plant Biology graduate students | Role of climate variation in shaping sensitivity to vernalization The hidden aspect of reticulate evolution in ferns; a study of allopolyploid gametophyte ecology |
| Apr 14 | Dr. Li-Jun Ma, University of Massachusetts, Amherst | Accessory chromosomes and Fusarium pathogenomics |
| Apr 21 | Dr. Chandra Jack, Clark University | Selection on microbially-mediated traits in natural and agricultural systems |
| Apr 28 | Sarah Lindsay and Jaime Van Leuven, UVM Field Naturalist graduate students | Lepidopteran diversity and abundance in the Ossipee Pine Barrens ecosystem American Chestnut Restoration with the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians |
| May 5 | Rachael Monosson, UVM Field Naturalist graduate student | Inspiring Environmental Leadership in Teens |
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 | Cross-kingdom RNA trafficking between plants and fungal pathogens |
| Oct 14 | Dr. Andrew Nelson, Cornell University | Using large-scale transcriptomics, comparative genomics, and low-cost phenomics to identify functional long non-coding RNAs in plants |
| 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 | Dr. Christian Peters, USDA ARS | Agricultural Carrying Capacity: Estimating the Potential of Land to Feed People |
| Nov 4 | Rachel Wilson, UVM Plant Biology Graduate Student | VTI13: A SNARE Story |
| Nov 11 | Connor Lewis and Sandra Nnadi, UVM Plant Biology Gradute Students | Explorations of Endosomal Trafficking Pathways in Arabidopsis thaliana The fungal microbiome: Understanding seasonal and inoculation effects of highbush blueberry |
| Nov 18 | Bertrand Black, UVM Plant Biology Graduate Student | Phylogenetic relationships of the Athyrium filix-femina complex in the Americas |
| Nov 25 | Thanksgiving | No Seminar |
Spring 2021 Marvin Seminar Schedule
| Date | Speaker | Seminar Title |
|---|---|---|
| Feb 4 | Dr. Tanisha Williams, Bucknell University | Conserving Biodiversity from South Africa to Australia |
| Feb 11 | Open | Open |
| Feb 18 | Dr. Allyson MacLean, University of Ottawa | Plant-based vaccines: how bacteria, lettuce, and a relative of tobacco help combat COVID-19 |
| Feb 25 | Julie Raiguel, UVM Plant Biology Graduate Student | The Mystery of NPF1B: Does this LATD cousin also play a role in the legume-rhizobium symbiosis? |
| Mar 4 | Dr. Alejandra Vasco, Botanical Research Institute of Texas | Simple and divided leaves in ferns: Exploring the evolution and genetic basis for leaf morphology differences in the genus Elaphoglossum |
| Mar 11 | Dr. Robbin Moran, New York Botanical Garden | Darwin’s Passion for Plants |
| Mar 18 | Dr. Laura Hill, UVM Plant Biology | Contemplative Teaching and Learning in Higher Education: Theory and Practice |
| Mar 25 | No Seminar | UVM Blackboard Jungle Symposium |
| Apr 1 | Matt Grasso, UVM Plant Biology Graduate Student | Developing a protocol for the encapsulation of living plant protoplasts in hydrogel microspheres: motivations and methods |
| Apr 8 | Morgan Southgate, UVM Plant Biology Graduate Student | Ecological dynamics of allopolyploidy in the Adiantum pedatum complex across micro- and macro- habitat scales |
| Apr 15 | Dr. Catalina Pislariu, Texas Women's University | Belowground peace talks: Decoding symbiotic nitrogen fixation in the model legume Medicago truncatula |
| Apr 22 | Berke Tinaz, UVM Plant Biology Graduate Student | Functional evolution of LATD/NIP prior to symbiotic nitrogen fixation evolution |
| Apr 29 | Baxter Worthing and Brittany Verrico, UVM Plant Biology Graduate Students | Genomics and Ecology Guide Predictions of Poplar Phenology How local is local? Investigating the spatial scale of climate adaptation in red spruce (Picea rubens Sarg.) |
| May 6 | Aayudh Das and Charlotte Uden, UVM Plant Biology Graduate Students | Stress adaptation in Pooideae grasses: the relative roles of historical and local climatic factors in shaping cold and drought resistance Modeling Historic Frequency of Fire Ignition by Indigenous People of Northeastern United States |
| May 13 | Zoe Portlas and Meredith Naughton (Field Naturalist), UVM Plant Biology Graduate Students | Exploring the genomics and ecology of an invasive, polyploid hybrid complex. How does trail recreation impact wildlife? Examining the literature to inform management in Vermont. |
Fall 2020 Marvin Seminar Schedule
| Date | Speaker | Seminar Title |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 17 | Dr. Jane Molofsky, UVM Plant Biology | CANCELED (Taming the Black Swan: An ecological approach to controlling SARS-Cov-2) |
| Sep 24 | Dr. Hosna Jabbari, University of Victoria, BC | COVID-19: past, present, future |
| Oct 1 | Open | Open |
| Oct 8 @4pm | Dr. Jeanne Harris, UVM Plant Biology | The quest for the top 10 unanswered questions in molecular plant-microbe interactions |
| Oct 15 | Open | Open |
| Oct 22 | Dr. Iván Jiménez, Missouri Botanical Garden | The Nature of Espeletia Species |
| Oct 29 | Dr. Michael Sundue, UVM Plant Biology | Using Large-Scale Integrative Analyses to Understand Global Patterns of Fern Diversity |
| Nov 5 | Bertrand Black, UVM Plant Biology Graduate Student | Historical biogeography of the Lastreopsid ferns (Dryopteridaceae): what is the role of Antarctica? |
| Nov 12 | Rachel Wilson, UVM Plant Biology Graduate Student | Is VTI13 involved in turnover of plasma membrane proteins needed for growth? |
| Nov 19 | Anoob Prakash, UVM Plant Biology Graduate Student | Climate Adaptation in Red Spruce: determinate growth in an increasingly indeterminate world |
| Nov 26 | No Seminar | Thanksgiving |
| Dec 3 | Dr. Sally Aitken, University of British Columbia | Long, slow lives facing rapid change: Climate adaptation in conifers |
| Dec 10 | Sandra Nnadi, UVM Plant Biology Graduate Student | Examining effects of the fungal microbiome on interactions with pollinators in highbush blueberry |
Spring 2020 Marvin Seminar Schedule
| Date | Speaker | Seminar Title |
|---|---|---|
| Jan 16 | Open | No Seminar |
| Jan 23 | Open | No Seminar |
| Jan 30 | Dr. Josef Gorres, UVM Plant & Soil Science | Alterations of Habitable Pore Space By Earthworms and Subsequent Effects on Soil Biogeochemistry |
| Feb 6 | Morgan Southgate & Baxter Worthing, PBIO Graduate Students | Micro- and macro- habitat differences among the members of the Adiantum pedatum complex at local and regional scales Predictability, Plasticity and Poplar Populations |
| Feb 13 | Dr. Michelle Facette, U Mass Amherst | Form and function of grass stomata |
| Feb 20 | Open | Open |
| Feb 27 | Dr. Emily Sessa, University of Florida | Fern tales at two scales: Using phylogenetics to study historical biogeography in Africa and community assembly in Florida |
| Mar 5 | Matt Grasso, PBIO Graduate Student | Using droplet-microfluidics to fabricate tunable hydrogel microenvironments for regenerating plant protoplasts |
| Mar 12 | Spring Break | No Seminar |
| Mar 19 | Eric Hagen & Grace Glynn, PBIO Field Naturalist Graduate Students | Postponed because of Covid-19 social distancing |
| Mar 26 | Blackboard Jungle Symposium | No Seminar (Blackboard Jungle has been canceled, and we still won't have seminar) |
| Apr 2 | Canceled | Canceled |
| Apr 9 | Charlotte Uden, PBIO Graduate Student (remotely via MS Teams; email plantbio@uvm.edu to request a link to the seminar meeting) | Using forest composition predicted by LPJGUESS to understand the role of fire on the pre European landscape of the Northeastern United States |
| Apr 16 | Connor Lewis, PBIO Graduate Student (remotely via MS Teams; email plantbio@uvm.edu to request a link to the seminar meeting) | The Retriever Complex and Endosomal Trafficking in Plants |
| Apr 23 | Morgan Southgate and Grace Glynn (joint talk), PBIO Graduate Students | Herbaceous species composition and edaphic variation in a post-agricultural floodplain forest |
| Apr 30 | Aayudh Das & Berke Tinaz, PBIO Graduate Students | Understanding how Pooideae stress adaptations explain climatic distributions Medicago truncatula LATD/NIP expression and evolution of function |
| May 7 | Eric Hagen & Grace Glynn, PBIO Field Naturalist Graduate Students | Using relational values to guide biodiversity conservation in Vermont Assessing the ecological integrity of Maine's salt marshes |
Fall 2019 Marvin Seminar Schedule
| Date | Speaker | Seminar Title |
|---|---|---|
| Aug 29 | Dr. Cang Hui, Stellenbosch University | Zeta Diversity as a common currency for partitioning biodiversity and species turnover |
| Sep 5 | New Student Welcome Event | No Seminar |
| Sep 12 | Open | Open |
| Sep 19 | Dr. Tobias Baskin, U Mass Amherst | Out of many, one: On the emergence of stable growth dynamics in the plant root |
| Sep 26 | Open | Open |
| Oct 3 | Dr. Thomas Juenger, UT Austin | Genetic and genomic studies of ecotype divergence and local adaptation in switchgrass (Panicum virgatum) |
| Oct 10 | Open | Open |
| Oct 17 | Dr. Kirsten Coe, Middlebury College | The secret life of moss: how tiny plants can give big insights into ecosystem ecology and global change |
| Oct 24 | Susan Fawcett, PBIO Graduate Student | Systematics and Biogeography of the Thelypteridaceae |
| Oct 31 | Zoe Portlas, PBIO Graduate Student | Unraveling the demographic history of an invasive hybrid complex |
| Nov 7 *at 4:30* | Brittany Verrico, PBIO Graduate Student | Searching for resistance to Phytophthora cinnamomi in American Chestnut (Castanea dentata) |
| Nov 14 | Sandra Nnadi & Anoob Prakash, PBIO Graduate Students | Characterizing the fungal microbiome in roots of Vaccinium corymbosum (blueberry) Modeling functional traits to unravel the effect of climate change on range wide variation in Red spruce |
| Nov 21 | Dr. Ali Kosiba, UVM Rubenstein School | Have red spruce trees "recovered" from decades of acid rain? |
| Nov 28 | Thanksgiving | No Seminar |
| Dec 5 | Dr. Will Freyman, 23 and Me | Methods to infer the genetic ancestry of millions of people |
Spring 2019 Marvin Seminar Schedule
| Date | Speaker | Seminar Title |
|---|---|---|
| Jan 17 | Open | Open |
| Jan 24 | Dr. Charles Cogbill, Harvard Forest | The original forests of Vermont and beyond |
| Jan 31 | Morgan Southgate, UVM Plant Biology graduate students | Ecological Outcome of Allopolyploidy in Adiantum (Pteridaceae): Niche Intermediacy and Expansion into Novel Habitats |
| Feb 7 | Dr. Brent Lockwood, UVM Biology | Integrating genetics and physiology to gain insights into species responses to environmental change NOTE: This week's seminar will be held in the Davis Center: 3:45 social in the Livak Ballroom and 4:15 seminar in the Jost Foundation Room. |
| Feb 14 | Dr. Petr Smykal, Palacky University in Olomouc, Czech Republic | Legume seed dormancy from adaptive and domestication perspectives |
| Feb 21 | Dr. Jason Stumpff, UVM Molecular Physiology and Biophysics | Centering the genome: How and why do chromosomes align during mitosis |
| Feb 28 | Dr. Brian Beckage, UVM Plant Biology | The Earth has humans, so why don't our climate models? |
| Mar 7 | Berke Tinaz and Connor Lewis, UVM Plant Biology graduate students | Testing the ability of the Populus balsamifera LATD/NIP ortholog to rescue the Medicago truncatula latd mutant Using CRISPR Induced Mutations to Investigate Proteins Contributing to Polarized Growth in Plants |
| Mar 14 | No Seminar | Spring Break |
| Mar 21 | No Seminar | Blackboard Jungle Keynote is at this time. |
| Mar 28 | Dr. Jane Molofsky, UVM Plant Biology | Plant Traits and Ecosystem Transitions |
| Apr 4 | Dr. Thibaut Capblancq, UVM Plant Biology postdoc | Using genomic data to study species evolutionary history, from hybrid speciation in butterflies to local adaptation in trees |
| Apr 11 | Dr. Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra, University of California - Davis | Maize population genomics are cool |
| Apr 18 | Dr. Rick Lindroth, University of Wisconsin - Madison | Chemical and evolutionary ecology of herbivore defense in an iconic forest tree species |
| Apr 25 | Dr. Madelaine Bartlett, University of Massachusetts - Amherst | Complex families, complex histories: developmental genetics and the evolution of developmental genes in the grasses |
| May 2 | Aayudh Das and Matt Grasso, UVM Plant Biology graduate students | The role of stomatal trait evolution in Pooideae (Poaceae) stress tolerance Encapsulation of plant protoplasts in agarose microspheres: a developing platform for single cell studies in plant systems |
Fall 2018 Marvin Seminar Schedule
| Date | Speaker | Seminar Title |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 6 | Dr. Scott Merrill, UVM Plant & Soil Science | Climate change will affect insect metabolism, population growth rates and spatial distributions with direct consequences for plant hosts |
| Sep 13 | Open | Open |
| Sep 20 | Susan Fawcett, UVM Plant Biology graduate students | Fine-scale distribution and survival of two rare rock ferns shaped by biotic and abiotic factors |
| Sep 27 | Dr. Michael Hood, Amherst College Host: Dr. Stephen Keller | Disease at the edge of species distributions: anther-smut fungi of wild carnations |
| Oct 4 | Dr. Stephen Keller, UVM Plant Biology | Evolutionary responses to global change -- linking ecology and genomics to understand the past and predict the future |
| Oct 11 | Dr. Shawn Mansfield, University of British Columbia Hosts: Dr. Mary Tierney and Dr. Stephen Keller | Cellulose Synthesis - Simple Polymer, Complicated Biosynthesis. |
| Oct 18 | Dr. Seema Sheth, North Carolina State University Host: Dr. Jill Preston | Adaptation in plant populations, species, and clades |
| Oct 25 | Dr. Jeanne Harris, UVM Plant Biology | Development of Symbiotic Root Nodules: Environment and Evolution |
| Nov 1 | Dr. Stephen Guerin, CEO, Simtable Host: Dr. Brian Beckage | Realtime.Earth - coordinating mobile camera feeds and agent-based models for a shared realtime understanding of the world |
| Nov 8 | Dr. Pedro Bond Schwartzburd, Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Brazil Hosts: Dr. Michael Sundue and Dr. David Barrington | Phylogeny, character evolution, and biogeography of the fern genus Hypolepis |
| Nov 15 | Brittany Verrico and Karl Fetter, UVM Plant Biology graduate students | Long-term monitoring reveals forest community change driven by atmospheric deposition and contemporary climate change Quantitative analysis and admixture mapping of rust disease severity in hybrid poplars |
| Nov 22 | Thanksgiving | No Seminar |
| Nov 29 | Chris Schorn and Lauren Sopher, Field Naturalist Graduate Students | Growing ‘Plains: Factors limiting valley clayplain forest regeneration and restoration success on post-agricultural land The Greensboro Bend, Vermont PLACE Project: Place-based Landscape Analysis & Community Engagement |
| Dec 6 | Carolyn Loeb and Jason Mazurowski, Field Naturalist Graduate Students | Seeing the Forest and the Trees: Can We Provide Tools that Help Conservation-Minded Landowners Work Towards an Ecologically Functional Future for Vermont? Examining Fire's Role in the Conservation of Endangered and Threatened Birds in New Hampshire's Ossipee Pine Barrens |
Spring 2018 Marvin Seminar Schedule
| Date | Speaker | Seminar Title |
|---|---|---|
| Jan 18 | Dr. Eric Bishop von Wettberg, UVM Plant & Soil Science | Feeding new friends: using an understanding of how domestication altered symbioses and plant architecture to create crops with increase climatic resilience |
| Jan 25 | Dr. Jean-Michel Ané, University of Wisconsin Host: Dr. Jeanne Harris | Origin and evolution of symbioses between plants and microbes |
| Feb 1 | OPEN | OPEN |
| Feb 8 | Dr. Tommy Stoughton, Plymouth State University Host: Dr. Michael Sundue | Next Generation Lineage Discovery: a Case Study of Tuberous Claytonia L. (Montiaceae) |
| Feb 15 | Dr. Sabrina Greenwood, UVM Animal Science | Dairy cattle nutrition and its impact on the bovine milk proteome |
| Feb 22 | Berke Tinaz and Matt Grasso, UVM Plant Biology graduate students | Evolution of the LATD/NIP gene root and nodule meristem function Plant Reproductive Biology: an Interesting Problem |
| Mar 1 | Dr. Meredith Niles, UVM Nutrition & Food Sciences | Smallholder farmer food security in a changing climate |
| Mar 8 | CANCELED: Dr. Luis Vidali, Worcester Polytechnic Institute Host: Dr. Jeanne Harris | CANCELED because of weather, to be rescheduled. |
| Mar 15 | No Marvin Seminar | Spring Break |
| Mar 22 | Dr. Andrew Groover, USDA Forest Service Host: Dr. Stephen Keller | Molecular and Genomic Insights into the Evolution and Development of Wood in Forest Trees |
| Mar 29 | Aayudh Das, UVM Plant Biology graduate student | Drivers of Pooideae grass adaptation in response to drought and cold stress |
| Apr 5 | Dr. Philip Lintilhac, UVM Plant Biology | Concepts of the cell in plant development - Who's in charge here? |
| Apr 12 | Dr. Mary Tierney, UVM Plant Biology | From mutants to proteomics: genetic and genomic approaches to understanding polarized growth in plants |
| Apr 19 | Maria Dunlavey, Field Naturalist Graduate Student | Ginseng Poaching in Shenandoah National Park |
| Apr 26 | Andy Wood and Chelsea Clarke, Field Naturalist Graduate Students | Wildlife and Road Ecology in Western Massachusetts Phenology Monitoring at Shelburne Farms |
| May 3 | Dr. Luis Vidali, Worcester Polytechnic Institute Host: Dr. Jeanne Harris | Studying polarized cell growth in plants by quantitative live cell imaging and conditional genetics |
Fall 2017 Marvin Seminar Schedule
| Date | Speaker | Seminar Title |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 7 | Katherine Hale, UVM Field Naturalist graduate student | Best Practices for a Florida Torreya (Torreya taxifolia) Conservation Seed Orchard: Or, What's an Endangered Conifer Doing So Far North? |
| Sep 14 | Dr. Dianna Jolles, Plymouth State University Host: Dr. David Barrington | Reproductive isolation and diversification in the buzz-pollinated Pyrola picta (plant) species complex of western North America |
| Sep 21 | Dr. Abby van den Berg, UVM Plant Biology, Proctor Maple Research Center | Sustainable tapping guidelines for modern maple sap collection practices |
| Sep 28 | Dr. Susanne Lachmuth, UVM Plant Biology visiting scholar in the Keller Lab | Eco-evolutionary processes and their effects on the demographic dynamics of invasive plant populations |
| Oct 5 | OPEN | OPEN |
| Oct 12 | CANCELLED Dr. Carolyn Rasmussen, University of California, Riverside Host: Dr. Phil Lintilhac | Predicting plant cell division from cell shapes |
| Oct 19 | Dr. Thomas Mitchell-Olds, Duke University Host: Karl Fetter and Dr. Stephen Keller | Biotic and abiotic influences on balancing selection in nature |
| Oct 26 | Dr. Jill Preston, UVM Plant Biology | Evolutionary Genetics of Plant Reproductive Development |
| Nov 2 | Susan Fawcett (Barrington Lab), UVM Plant Biology graduate student | Biogeography, Taxonomy and Evolutionary Affinities of Northeastern Thelypteridaceae |
| Nov 9 | Brittany Verrico and Karl Fetter (Keller Lab), UVM Plant Biology graduate students | Is gene flow extensive and inhibiting adaptation of red spruce along an elevational gradient? The cost of hybridization: modeling disease, genotype, and phenotype in naturally formed Poplar hybrid |
| Nov 16 | Dr. Jamie Kostyun, UVM Plant Biology postdoc in Preston Lab Host: Dr. Jeanne Harris | The developmental genetic basis and evolutionary consequences of floral diversity in Jaltomata (Solanaceae). |
| Nov 23 | No Seminar | Thanksgiving |
| Nov 30 | Dr. Sara Helms Cahan, UVM Biology Host: Dr. Jeanne Harris | Misery Loves Company: Exploring Variation in Social Structure in a Desert Ant |
| Dec 7 | Dr. Christine Ondzighi-Assoume, Tennessee State University Host: Dr. Jeanne Harris | Elucidation of Switchgrass Biomass Recalcitrance for Biofuels Through Biotechnology |
Spring 2017 Marvin Seminar Schedule
| Date | Speaker | Seminar Title |
|---|---|---|
| Jan 19 | OPEN | OPEN |
| Jan 26 | Dr. Dawei Li, UVM Microbiology and Molecular Genetics Host: Dr. Jeanne Harris | Identifying novel viral integrations using whole-genome sequencing |
| Feb 2 | Dr. Jinshun Zhong, UVM Plant Biology Preston Lab | Evolution of Cold Adaptations in Temperate Grasses (Pooideae, Poaceae) |
| Feb 9 | Dr. Mel Tyree, University of Alberta | Experimental and theoretical evidence for negative turgor pressure in leaf cells: Is there a functional significance? |
| Feb 16 | Dr. Aimee Classen, UVM Rubenstein School | Ecosystem function in a changing world |
| Feb 23 | Dr. Sen Subramanian, South Dakota State University Host: Dr. Jeanne Harris | Spatio-temporal auxin-cytokinin balance during nodule development in soybean |
| Mar 2 | Dr. John Stinchecombe, University of Toronto Host: Dr. Stephen Keller | Ecological genomics of plant adaptation |
| Mar 9 | Dr. Matt Wargo, UVM Microbiology & Molecular Genetics Host: Dr. Jeanne Harris | Dissecting robustness and resilience in a model bacterial community from the International Space Station |
| Mar 16 | No Marvin Seminar | Spring Break |
| Mar 23 | Nikisha Patel, UVM Plant Biology graduate student, Barrington Lab | Polyploid evolution among apomictic ferns of the Dryopteridaceae in East Asia |
| Mar 30 | Dr. Brandon Ogbunu, UVM Biology Host: Dr. Jeanne Harris | Coffee and Epistasis |
| Apr 6 | Dr. Anna Jacobsen, California State University Bakersfield Host: Dr. Phil Lintilhac | Woody plant xylem vessels: Development, hydraulic function, and hydraulic failure |
| Apr 13 | Kattia Palacio Lopez (Molofsky Lab) and Gianna Sassi (Harris Lab), UVM Plant Biology graduate students | Genomic admixture between locally adapted populations of Arabidopsis thaliana: Evidence of optimal genetic outcrossing distance Evolutionary History of the plant NTR1/PTR Family (NPF1) |
| Apr 20 | Suryatapa Jha (Tierney Lab) and Sanhita Chakraborty (Harris Lab), UVM Plant Biology graduate students | A Novel Retromer Subunit VPS26C, and its Human Ortholog, Regulate Polarized Growth in Arabidopsis thaliana Interplay between salt signaling and the early stages of nodulation |
| Apr 27 | Gabe Andrews and Ellen Gawarkiewicz, UVM Field Naturalist graduate students | Rivers Stories Along the New Haven: Resilience and a Sense of Place in a Vermont Watershed Cultivating Modern Naturalists: Proposal for an Undergraduate Field Naturalist Concentration |
| May 4 | Sonya DeYoung and Anya Tyson, UVM Field Naturalist graduate students | Wild Surprises on Ordinary Land: An Ecological Assessment of a Soon-to-Be Small Farm NOLS and Nutcrackers: citizen science at high elevations |
Fall 2016 Marvin Seminar Schedule
| Date | Speaker | Seminar Title |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 8 | Dr. Nick Gotelli, UVM Biology Host: Dr. Cathy Paris | Holocene shifts in the assembly of plant and animal communities |
| Sep 15 | Dr. Bruce Baldwin, University of California, Berkeley Host: Susand Fawcett and Dr. David Barrington | Evolutionary and biogeographic perspectives from studies of oceanic island floras |
| Sep 22 | OPEN | OPEN |
| Sep 29 | Dr. David Barrington, UVM Plant Biology | Of ferns, giant parasites, climate change, and herbaria: Barrington on sabbatical 2016 |
| Oct 6 | Susan Fawcett, Grad Student, Barrington Lab Wes Testo, Grad Student, Barrington Lab | The Flora and Ecology of a Neotropical Savanna, Utila, Bay Islands, Honduras Polyploidy does not influence rates of diversification across the fern phylogeny |
| Oct 13 | Dr. Lydia Bright, SUNY New Paltz Host: Dr. Jeanne Harris | Functional diversification of Rab GTPase gene family members in Paramecium |
| Oct 20 | Dr. Pamela Diggle, University of Connecticut Host: Dr. Phil Lintilhac | A great and curious blunder in dame nature: Evo-devo and Darwin's exclamation |
| Oct 27 | Suryatapa Jha, Grad Student, Tierney Lab Matt Grasso, Grad Student, Lintilhac Lab | VPS26C is a Conserved Retromer Complex Subunit in Eukaryotes Essential for Cell Wall Organization in Arabidopsis Microbead encapsulation of individual plant protoplasts: a method for controlling the physical environment of plant cells |
| Nov 3 | No Marvin Seminar | Aiken Lecture today |
| Nov 10 | Career Panel: Dr. Julie Dragon and Dr. Monique McHenry | What to do with a PhD in Plant Biology: Thinking outside the box |
| Nov 17 | Dr. Bill Keeton, UVM Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources Host: Dr. Jane Molofsky | Forest-stream interactions in northern temperate forests: a cross-disciplinary approach |
| Nov 24 | No Marvin Seminar | Thanksgiving |
| Dec 1 | Karl Fetter, Grad Student, Keller Lab Brittany Verrico, Grad Student, Keller Lab | Breaking the genomic piñata to find the good stuff: hybridization reveals pathogen associated genes in Populus Microgeographic analysis of forest community change and gene flow across an elevation gradient in northeastern red spruce forests. |
Spring 2016 Marvin Seminar Schedule
| Date | Speaker | Seminar Title |
|---|---|---|
| Jan 21 | Dr. Rachael Oldinski, UVM Engineering Host: Dr. Phil Lintilhac | Smart Alginate-Based Hydrogels: Bio-Inspired Materials for Regenerative Medicine |
| Jan 28 | Dr. Terry Bradshaw, UVM Plant & Soil Science Host: Dr. Laura Hill | Management of rusts and other diseases in organically-grown scab-resistant apple cultivars with biopesticides and copper |
| Feb 4 | Dr. Tom Kinraide, USDA Host: Dr. Bud Etherton | Surface electrical potentials of plant plasma membranes: implications for ion interactions, phytotoxicity, and uptake |
| Friday Feb 5 1:00pm | Dr. Tom Kinraide, USDA Host: Dr. Bud Etherton | Electrophysiology Workshop in room Jeffords 326 |
| Feb 11 | Dr. Melissa Pespeni, UVM Biology | Evolutionary genomics in a diverse and changing world: Studies in sea urchins and horned beetles |
| Feb 18 | Dr. Jinshun Zhong, Postdoc, Preston Lab | Plant adaptations to temperate climate - insights from temperate grasses |
| Feb 25 | OPEN | OPEN |
| Mar 3 | Dr. Ed Weinberger, Clark University Host: Dr. Brian Beckage | Pragmatic Information and its applications to evolutionary theory, economics, and finance |
| Mar 10 | Spring Break | No Seminar |
| Mar 17 | Dr. Christine Palmer, Castleton State Host: Dr. Jeanne Harris | The genetics of shade avoidance in plants |
| Mar 24 | Vikram Chhatre, Postdoc, Keller Lab | Genome-Wide Patterns of Local Adaptation and Introgressive Hybridization in Populus |
| Mar 31 | Beck Powers, Grad Student, Preston Lab | Candidate genes in the evolution of sympetaly |
| Apr 7 | Art Gilman, Author of New Flora of Vermont Hosts: Dr. Cathy Paris and Susan Fawcett | Incidents in the Development of the New Flora of Vermont |
| Apr 14 | Sanhita Chakraborty, Grad Student, Harris Lab Meghan McKeown, Grad Student, Preston Lab | Dissecting salt regulation of nodulation Evolution of the miR5200-FLOWRING LOCUS T flowering time regulon in the temperate grass subfamily Pooideae |
| Apr 21 | Emma Stuhl, Field Naturalist Grad Student Nikisha Patel, Grad Student, Barrington Lab | Connecting People to Place: The New Haven, Vermont, PLACE Program The evolution of apomixis in Polystichum section Xiphopolystichum: A systematics approach to understanding speciation in asexual ferns |
| Apr 28 | Ben Lemmond, Field Naturalist Grad Student Shelby Perry, Field Naturalist Grad Student | Hurricane Island, Maine: A Field Naturalist's Account Big Woods: A Coarse Filter Approach to Conserving Vermont Landscapes |
| May 5 | Kattia Palacio Lopez, Grad Student, Molofsky Lab Gianna Sassi, Grad Student, Harris Lab | Genomic admixture between locally adapted populations of Arabidopsis thaliana: Evidence of transgressive segregation and phenotypic novelty Evolutionary history of the plant LATD/NIP gene family: losses, duplications, implications for root development and symbioses. |
Fall 2015 Marvin Seminar Schedule
| Date | Speaker | Seminar Title |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 3 | Dr. Dana Royer, Wesleyan University Host: Dr. Stephen Keller | Fossil plants as recorders of ancient climate |
| Sep 10 | Dr. Siri Fjellheim, Norwegian University of Life Sciences Host: Dr. Jill Preston | Battle of the brooms: introduced Scotch broom (Cytisus scoparius) invades the genome of native Scotch broom in vulnerable heathland habitats. Can the locals strike back? |
| Sep 17 Livak Ballroom, Davis Center, 5pm | Dr. David M. Richardson, UVM Marsh Professor-At-Large Host: Dr. Jane Molofsky | Developments and Challenges in Invasion Science - Insights form South Africa (panel discussion and reception to follow) |
| Sep 24 | Dr. Sydne Record, Bryn Mawr College Host: Dr. Stephen Keller | Moving beyond correlative species distribution models |
| Oct 1 | Dr. Jeff Blanchard, University of Massachusetts at Amherst Host: Dr. Mary Tierney | A common gap in biofuel and climate change research: Understanding mechanisms controlling rates of plant decomposition |
| Oct 8 | Dr. Nathalie Isabel, Laval University, Quebec Host: Dr. Stephen Keller | What is going on 200 miles away from the University of Vermont? Forest tree Genomics! |
| Oct 15 | Dr. Lena Struwe, Rutgers University Host: Dr. David Barrington | The new extreme plants - urbanized biodiversity in a changing world |
| Oct 22 | Dr. Dan Chitwood, Danfort Plant Science Center Host: Dr. Jill Preston and Dr. Jinshun Zhong | Reconceptualizing morphology: the architecture of a giant single-celled alga and the latent shapes of grapevine leaves |
| Oct 29 | Dr. Gloria Muday, Wake Forest Host: Dr. Jeanne Harris | Flavonoids act as modulators of plant development and environmental response |
| Nov 5 | Dr. Rob McClung, Dartmouth Host: Dr. Terry Delaney | As easy as ABC: Arabidopsis and Brassica clocks |
| Nov 12 | Suryatapa Jha, Grad Student, Tierney Lab Matt Grasso, Grad Student, Lintilhac Lab | Characterization of an Endosomal Trafficking Pathway Required for Cell Wall Organization and Polarized Growth in Arabidopsis thaliana Microbead encapsulation of living plant protoplasts: A new method for handling single plant cells |
| Nov 19 | Dr. Madelaine Bartlett, University of Massachusetts at Amherst Host: Dr. Jill Preston | The evolution of transcription factor protein-protein interactions: tying historical patterns to functional change in the grasses |
| Nov 26 | Thanksgiving | No Seminar |
| Dec 3 | Karl Fetter, Grad Student, Keller Lab Wes Testo, Grad Student, Barrington Lab | A dissertation idea: What is the fate of pathogen resistance genes when genetic incompatibilities maintain a Populus balsamifera - P. deltoides hybrid zone? A new look at diversification in the ferns |