Reed College Biology Department


BIOLOGY DEPARTMENT SEMINAR PROGRAM

Fall Semester, 1999





The following was the seminar schedule for the Fall semester of the 1999-2000 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. 17

Biology Dept. Faculty
"What's new with the Biology Dept.: an update for new and returning majors".

Sept. 24

Dr. Candace Galen , Reed Class of '77 (Div. of Biological Sciences, Univ. of Missouri-Columbia).
"Floral evolution in an alpine wildflower, Polemonium viscosum".


Oct. 1

Biology Dept. Faculty
"Graduate Schooling in the Biological Sciences: Where can you go and how do you get there?"

Oct. 8

Dr. Alexey Merz , Reed Class of '91 (Molecular Microbiology & Immunology, OHSU).
"Bacterial adhesion to host cells: an active, multistep process".
(Supported by the Liu Fund)

Oct. 20, 4 PM
NOTE: special date & time during Reed's Fall Break

Dr. Wise Young, Reed Class of '71 (Neuroscience Center, Rutgers Univ.).
"The neural basis of spinal cord injury and repair".
(Co-sponsored by the Biology and Psychology Depts.)

Oct. 29

STUDENT SUMMER RESEARCH presentations:
Mark Hartnett, "Memoirs of Madison: How the CAPS Protein Ruled My Summer."
Athena Dodd, "Phylogeography of Big Brown Bats in North America"


Nov. 5

Dr. Jorge H. Crosa, (Dept. of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, OHSU).
"Control of expression of iron transport genes in bacteria".
(Supported by the Liu Fund)

Nov. 12

Dr. David M. Parichy , Reed Class of '91 (Integrative Biology, Univ. of Texas at Austin).
"Evolutionary genetics of Danio pigment pattern development".
(Supported by the Liu Fund)

Nov. 19

Reed Senior Thesis Students (December graduates).

Brent Miller, "Plant foraging: a review and simulation study"

Max Ranall, "Exploring far red-light controlled gene regulation: Attack of the Killer Tomatoes III"


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