Reed College Biology Department

BIOLOGY DEPARTMENT SEMINAR PROGRAM

Spring Semester, 2003


All Biology Department Seminars are free and open to the public.
Seminars take place Fridays at 4:15 PM in B-19 in the basement of the newly renovated 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).

Links to the seminar schedules for past semesters can be found at the bottom of this page.

Questions about the seminar program should be directed to Prof. Jay Mellies (jay.mellies@reed.edu)


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
Jan. 31

Dr. Jasper Rine (Richard and Rhoda Goldman Professor of Biology at UC Berkeley)
"Heritable States of Gene Expression"
Gabe Lester Memorial Speaker
Feb. 7
Dr. Peter G. Gillespie Reed Class of '81 (Associate Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology at OHSU)
"Molecular Dissection of Mechanotransduction in the Inner Ear"
Supported by the Liu Fund
Feb. 14

Biology Department Presents:
INFORMATION SEMINAR: Summer Research Opportunities, both here and there.
A panel discussion
Feb. 28

Dr. Johanne Brunet (Dept. of Botany and Plant Pathology at Oregon State University)
"Where ecology meets genetics: examples from disease resistance and plant mating systems"
Supported by the Lamfrom Fund
Mar. 7

Dr. Greg Hermann (Department of Biology at Lewis and Clark College)
"Organogenesis of the C. elegans intestine"
Supported by the Ellis Fund

Mar. 14
Dr. Roberto Malinow, (Cold Springs Laboratory, Cold Springs, NY)
"Mechanisms underlying experience-driven synaptic plasticity"
Supported by the Lamfrom Fund
Mar. 28

Dr. Sarah Hake, (Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, UC Berkeley)
"The role of Knotted 1-like homeobox genes in plant architecture"
Supported by the Lamfrom Fund

Apr. 4

Dr. Margaret Kidwell , (Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at The University of Arizona)
"Genome evolution: keeping pace with opportunistic DNA"
Supported by the Lamfrom Fund

Apr. 11
 Dr. Mitch Cruzen, (Biology Department at Portland State University)
"Origins and consequences of sparse distributions"
Supported by the Lamfrom Fund

Apr. 18

 Dr. Wolfhard Almers (Dept. of Plant Sciences, Univ. of Minn)
"Life 100 nm beneath the plasma membrane: imaging secretion, endocytosis and single vesicles"
Supported by the Liu Fund
Apr. 25
Reed Senior Thesis Students (May graduates).
STARS presentations

Seminar Schedules from Past Semesters

  • Fall 2002 seminar schedule
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  • Fall 2001 seminar schedule
  • Spring 2002 seminar schedule
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  • Fall 2000 seminar schedule
  • Spring 2001 seminar schedule
  • Fall 1999 seminar schedule
  • Spring 2000 seminar schedule
  • Fall 1998 seminar schedule
  • Spring 1999 seminar schedule
  • Fall 1997 seminar schedule
  • Spring 1998 seminar schedule

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