Biology Department

Seminar Schedule

All Biology Department Seminars are free and open to the public. Seminars take place Fridays at 4:10 PM in B-19 in the basement of the Biology Building on the Reed College Campus (unless otherwise noted on the schedule). Seminars are immediately preceded by a service of coffee, tea, and other refreshments.

The Reed College campus is located in southeast Portland at 3203 SE Woodstock Blvd. (Online maps are available for getting to Reed and for the Campus).

Spring 2010

Feb. 5 Biology Dept Information Seminar: "Summer Research Opportunities, both here and there, A Panel Discussion"
Feb. 12 Justin W. Taraska PhD '99 (Dept of Physiology & Biophysics, UWA)
"Imaging structural rearrangements in proteins with FRET "
Supported by the Lamfrom Fund
Feb. 19 Chris Hayes PhD (Molecular, Cellular & Dev Biology, University of California, Santa Barbara)
"Bang-bang, you're dead: toxic effector domains of contact-dependent growth inhibition (CDI) systems "
Supported by the Liu Fund
Feb. 26 Matt Streisfeld PhD (Center for Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Oregon)
"Evolutionary and molecular genetics of adaptive flower color divergence in 'Mimulus'"
Supported by the Ellis Fund
Mar. 5 Pamela C. Ronald PhD '82 (Plant Pathology, University of California, Davis)
"From Reed College to deciphering the genetic basis of the rice stress response "
Gabriel Lester Memorial Lecture
Mar. 12 No seminar--Friday before Spring break
Mar. 19 No seminar--Spring break
Mar. 26 David K. Skelly PhD (School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, Yale University)
"Hermaphrodites in your backyard: the landscape ecology of amphibian intersex"
Supported by the Liu Fund
Apr. 2

Georgiana Purdy PhD (Department of Molecular Microbiology & Immunology, Oregon Health & Science University)
"Lysosomal Ubiquitin and the Demise of 'Mycobacterium tuberculosis'"
Supported by the Lamfrom Fund

Apr. 9 Vicki L. Chandler PhD (Chief Program Officer, Science Program, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation)
"TBA"
Supported by the Liu Fund
Apr. 16 Jeff Chang PhD (Center for Genome Research & Biocomputing, Oregon State University)
"TBA"
Supported by the Lamfrom Fund
Apr. 23 S.T.A.R. Lectures: Students Talking About Research (brief lectures presented by thesis students about their respective thesis projects)


Past Seminars

Fall 2009  
Fall 2008 Spring 2009
Fall 2007 Spring 2008
Fall 2006 Spring 2007
Fall 2005 Spring 2006
Fall 2004 Spring 2005
Fall 2003 Spring 2004
Fall 2002 Spring 2003
Fall 2001 Spring 2002
Fall 2000 Spring 2001