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) |
| 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
