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).
Fall 2009
| Sept. 11 | "Student Summer Research
Presentations: A poster session" Supported by the Arch and Fran Diack Student Field Research Fund, Betty Liu Fellowship Fund, Mellon Foundation, Murdock Foundation, National Institute of Health, National Science Foundation, Reed College Science Research Foundation, and the Sandy Rivert Gorge Field Study |
| Sept. 18 | Corbin
D. Jones PhD ('92) (Department of Biology
and Carolina Center for Genome Sciences, UNC-Chapel Hill) "Origins and evolution of new genes" Supported by the Lamfrom Fund |
| Sept. 25 | David
A. Dalton PhD (Biology Department, Reed College) "Bioplastic production and other applications of sustainable biotechnology in poplar" Supported by the Lamfrom Fund |
| Oct. 2 | Sarah Eppley
PhD (Dept
of Biology, Portland State University) "Bryophyte sexual systems: testing the ecological and physiological constraints to sexual reproduction in bryophytes" Supported by the Ellis Fund |
| Oct. 9 | Michael
Udvardi PhD (Plant Biology Division, The Samuel
Roberts Noble Foundation) "Functional genomics of symbiotic nitrogen fixation in legumes" Supported by the Liu Fund |
| Oct. 16 | No seminar--Friday before Fall break |
| Oct. 23 | No seminar--Fall break |
| Oct. 30 | Kellar Autumn PhD (Department of Biology, Lewis & Clark
College) "Geckos: evolutionary nanotechnology" Supported by the Lamfrom Fund |
| Nov. 6 | Elizabeth G. King
PhD ('93) (Dept
of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University) "Resilence-Based Approaches to Ecosystem Dynamics and Restoration in Kenyan Drylands" Supported by the Lamfrom Fund |
| Nov. 13 | Vincent A. Fischetti
PhD (Laboratory of Bacterial
Pathogenesis and Immunology, The Rockefeller University, NY) "Using phege lytic enzymes to control pathogenic bacteria" Supported by the Liu Fund |
| Nov. 20 | Katja Behnke (Karlsruhe
Institut of Technology (KIT), Institute for Meteorology & Climate
Research - Atmospheric Environmental Research (IMK-IFU), Garmisch-Partenkirchen,
GERMANY) "The role of isoprene in stress tolerance of trees: Results from transgenic studies in poplar " Supported by the Lamfrom Fund |
| Nov. 27 | No seminar--Thanksgiving break |
| Look for S.T.A.R.S. lectures in Spring 2010 : Students Talking About Research (brief lectures presented by thesis students about their respective thesis projects) |
Spring 2010
| Jan. 29 | Biology Dept Information Seminar: "Summer Research Opportunities, both here and there, A Panel Discussion" |
| Feb. 5 | Pamela C. Ronald PhD (Plant Pathology, University of California,
Davis) "TBA" Supported by the Fund |
| Feb. 12 | Justin W. Taraska PhD (Dept of Physiology & Biophysics, UWA) "TBA" Supported by the Fund |
| Feb. 19 | Chris Hayes PhD (Molecular, Cellular & Dev Biology, University
of California, Santa Barbara) "TBA" Supported by the Fund |
| Feb. 26 | TBA "TBA" Supported by the Fund |
| Mar. 5 | TBA "TBA" Supported by the Fund |
| Mar. 12 | No seminar--Friday before Spring break |
| Mar. 19 | No seminar--Spring break |
| Mar. 26 | Vicki Moore PhD (Chief Program Officer, Science Program, Gordon
and Betty Moore Foundation) "TBA" Supported by the Fund |
| Apr. 2 | TBA "TBA" Supported by the Fund |
| Apr. 9 | TBA "TBA" Supported by the Fund |
| Apr. 16 | Jeff Chang PhD (Center for Genome Research & Biocomputing, Oregon
State University) "TBA" Supported by the 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 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 |
