Reed College Biology Department

BIOLOGY DEPARTMENT SEMINAR PROGRAM

Fall Semester, 2000



PLEASE NOTE: where possible, we have linked each speaker's name to their home institution or personal homepage.
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Date

Seminar
Sept. 8

Biology Dept. Faculty
"What's new with the Biology Department: An update for new and returning majors".
Sept. 15
Biology Dept. Faculty
"Graduate schooling in the Biological Sciences: Where can you go and how do you get there?"
Sept. 22

Dr. Vanessa Sperandio , (Dept.of Microbiology & Immunology, Univ. of Maryland School of Medicine).
"Quorum sensing gene regulation in enterohemorrhagic E. coli O157:H7 ."
(Supported by the Lamfrom Fund)

Sept.. 29



Student Summer Research presentations.

Melanie Barnes - Floral Development in the Brassicaceae

Jahan Khalili - Anti-CD154 treatment toward the prevention of autoimmune diabetes

Kristie Miller Ð Analysis of the cis-acting DNA sequences necessary for activation of the tir operon of enteropathogenic E. coli

Karl Gillick - Gradients in in situ photochemical efficiency of Lobaria oregana in old-growth Douglas-fir canopies.


Oct.. 6


Dr.Steve Giovannoni, (Dept.of Microbiology, Oregon St. Univ).
"The Uncultured Microbial Majority."
(Supported by the Lamfrom Fund)


Oct. 13

Dr. Edmund D. Brodie, III (Dept. of Biology, Indiana Univ.)
"The geographic mosaic in predator-prey arms races: the evolution of garter snake resistance to tetrodoxin"
(Supported by the Liu Fund)

Oct. 27

Dr. Kate Barald, (Dept. of Cell and Developmental Biology, Univ. of Michigan Medical School)
"The case of the disappearing semicircular canals, or how molecular antagonists shape the developing inner ear "
(Supported by the Liu Fund)

Nov. 3

Dr. Adam Linstedt, (Reed Class of '82; Dept. of Biological Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University)
"Matrices, Tethers, and Kinases: Mechanisms for Organizing the Golgi Apparatus "
(Supported by the Lamfrom Fund)

Nov. 10

Dr. Roderick Capaldi, (Inst. of Molecular Biology & Dept of Biology, Univ. of Oregon)
"Mitochondria in life and death"
(Supported by the Liu Fund)


Nov. 27

Reed Senior Thesis Students (December graduates).

 

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