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 2009
| Jan. 30 | Biology Dept Information Seminar: "Summer Research Opportunities, both here and there, A Panel Discussion" |
| Feb. 6 | Biology Dept Information Seminar: "What Next? Career paths of Reed Biology Majors" |
| Feb. 13 | Mark
E. Harmon PhD (Dept of Forest Ecosystems and Society, Oregon
State University) "The Fate of Forests in a Changing Climate " Supported by the Liu Fund |
| Feb. 20 | Craig Packer PhD (Dept of Ecology, Evolution & Behavior, University
of Minnesota) "Science, Poverty and Lion Conservation in Africa?" Supported by the Liu Fund |
| Feb. 27 | Nick Kaplinsky PhD Reed '93 (Dept of Biology,
Swarthmore College) "Hot and BOBBERED: The role of a unique heat shock protein in plant development" Supported by the Lamfrom Fund |
| Mar. 6 | Ege
T. Kavalali PhD (Dept of Neuroscience, U.T. Southwestern
Medical Center) |
| Mar. 13 | No seminar--Friday before Spring break |
| Mar. 20 | No seminar--Spring break |
| Mar. 27 | Jennifer Powers
PhD Reed '91 (Dept of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, University of
Minnesota) "Litter Decomposition in Tropical Forests: Patterns and Processes Across Sites and Species" Supported by the Lamfrom Fund |
| Apr. 3 | Maureen Hoatlin
PhD (Biochemistry and Molecular Biology & Molecular and Medical
Genetics, Hematologic Malignancies Program, OHSU Knight Cancer
Institute) "Targeting the Fanconi Anemia/BRCA DNA Damage Response Network" Supported by the Lamfrom Fund |
| Apr. 10 | John H. Willis
PhD (Biology Department, Duke University) "Genetic basis of adaptation and speciation in Mimulus" Supported by the Ellis Fund |
| Apr. 17 | Emily
Wiley PhD (Joint Science Department of the Claremont Colleges) |
| Apr. 24 | S.T.A.R. Lectures: Students Talking About Research (brief lectures presented by thesis students about their respective thesis projects) Laura Bradley - “Inhibiting secretion from bag cells increases prohormone mRNA trafficking to the neurites” Julia Carlton - “One bad mother: functional genomics of maternal aggression in an African cichlid fish” Danial Glaser -“Where’s the ETEC?: Infection and chemical protection in the C. elegans intestine” Clare Parker -“Sex and violence in juveniles: size, aggression, and a possible social mechanism for sex determination in Austatotilapia burtoni” |
| Apr. 28 (note: specieal Tuesday seminar) |
S.T.A.R. Lectures: Students Talking About Research (brief lectures presented by thesis students about their respective thesis projects) Molly Schumer - “Comparisons of gene expression and behavior in a sex-role conventional and sex-role reversed cichlid species pair (Julidochromis)” Jeannette Tenthorey - “Regulation of virulence in Enteropathogenic E. coli: in search of Ler’s DNA binding sequence” Angeline Wolski -“Predicting invasive species potential distribution according to the niche conservatism theory” |
Past Seminars
| Fall 2008 | |
| 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 |
