Reed College Biology Department

BIOLOGY DEPARTMENT SEMINAR PROGRAM

Fall Semester, 2001

The following was the seminar schedule for the Fall semester of the 2001-2002 academic year.

PLEASE NOTE: Where possible, we have linked each speaker's name to their home institution or personal homepage. To find out more information about each speaker, follow these links.

Date

Seminar
Sept. 21

 


Biology Department Presents:
Graduate schooling in the Biological Sciences: Where can you go and how do you get there?
Off-campus educational opportunities
and Information on Laboratory Safety
A panel discussion

 
Sept. 28

Dr. Larry Gilbert, (Section of Integrative Biology, University of Texas, Austin)
"Ant decapitating flies vs. fire ants : Ecological and behavioral approaches to controlling an invasive pest"
Supported by the Liu Fund
Oct. 5



Dr. William Costerton, (Center for Biofilm Engineering, Montana State University)
"Microbial Biofilms in Disease and Nature"
Supported by the Lamfrom Fund
Oct. 12

Dr. Gunter P. Wagner (Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University)
Rescheduled for spring 2002 semester
Oct. 26

Dr. Suzanne L. Rutherford, Reed Class of '85 (Division of Basic Sciences, Fred Hutchison Cancer Research Center)
"Hsp90 capacitor uncouples constraints on evolvability from morphological change"
Supported by the Lamfrom Fund

Nov. 2

Dr. Paul Knoepfler , Reed Class of '89 (Division of Basic Sciences, Fred Hutchison Cancer Research Center)
"Got Myc? Conditional knockout of the oncogene n-Myc"
Supported by the Liu Fund

Nov. 9

Dr. Peter M. Lansdorp, (University of British Columbia)
"Role of telomeres in aging and cancer"
Supported by the Liu Fund


Nov. 16

Dr. David Dalton, (Reed Biology Department)
"Associative Nitrogen Fixation in Grasses"


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