Reed College Biology Department

BIOLOGY DEPARTMENT SEMINAR PROGRAM

Spring Semester, 2006

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 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. The Biology Department's 2005-06 seminar program is coordinated by Prof. Janis Shampay
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. 27	Information Seminar: Summer Research Opportunities, both here and there "A Panel Discussion"
Feb. 3	Dr. John Neumaier '83 (Department of Psychiatry, University of Washington) "Sorting out serotonin with viral gene transfer" Supported by the Liu Fund
Feb. 10	Dr. Michael Katze (Department of Microbiology, University of Washington) "Virology in the 21st Century: Can We Save the World by Putting the Function in Functional Genomics?" Supported by the Lamfrom Fund
Feb. 17	Dr. Joe Thornton (Center for Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Oregon) "The Origin of Hormones: The Evolution of Complexity in the Endocrine System" Supported by the Liu Fund
Feb. 24	Dr. Niles Lehman (Chemistry Department, Portland State University) "The Spontaneous Self-Assembly of an RNA Catalyst: A Model for the Origins of Life?" Supported by the Merck/AAAS Undergraduate Science Research Program
Mar. 3	Dr. John McKay (Department of Plant Sciences and Center for Population Biology, UCDavis) *"Ecology and Evolution of an Invasion: Barbed Goatgrass (Aegilops triuncialis) range expansion into serpentine habitats in California"* Supported by the Liu Fund
Mar. 10	No Seminar
Mar. 17	Spring break--No Seminar
Mar. 24	Dr. Dorothy Shippen (Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Texas A& M University) "Maintaining an edge: what plants are revealing about telomere biology " Supported by the Lamfrom Fund
Mar. 31	Dr. Adam S. Wilkins, Editor, BioEssays, Cambridge, England "Evolutionary genetics, genomics, genetic networks: how should we approach the genetic foundations of the evolution of development/morphology?" Gabriel Lester Memorial Lecture
Apr. 7	Dr. Jeff K. Conner (Kellogg Biological Station, Michigan State University) "The roles of genetic integration and constraint in adaptive evolution: a floral case study" Supported by the Liu Fund
Apr. 14	Dr. Janis Shampay (Biology Department, Reed College) "Frog telomeres: Not the end of the story" Supported by the Lamfrom Fund
Apr. 21	Students Talking About Research (A series of brief lectures presented by thesis students about their respective thesis projects)

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