Biology Department

Seminar Schedule

Spring 2009

Jan. 30	Biology Dept Information Seminar: "Summer Research Opportunities, both here and there, A Panel Discussion"
Feb. 6	Biology Dept Information Seminar: "What Next? Career paths of Reed Biology Majors"
Feb. 13	Mark E. Harmon PhD (Dept of Forest Ecosystems and Society, Oregon State University) "The Fate of Forests in a Changing Climate " Supported by the Liu Fund
Feb. 20	Craig Packer PhD (Dept of Ecology, Evolution & Behavior, University of Minnesota) "Science, Poverty and Lion Conservation in Africa?" Supported by the Liu Fund
Feb. 27	Nick Kaplinsky PhD Reed '93 (Dept of Biology, Swarthmore College) "Hot and BOBBERED: The role of a unique heat shock protein in plant development" Supported by the Lamfrom Fund
Mar. 6	Ege T. Kavalali PhD (Dept of Neuroscience, U.T. Southwestern Medical Center) "Synaptic vesicle recycling and neurotransmission" Supported by the Liu Fund
Mar. 13	No seminar--Friday before Spring break
Mar. 20	No seminar--Spring break
Mar. 27	Jennifer Powers PhD Reed '91 (Dept of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, University of Minnesota) "Litter Decomposition in Tropical Forests: Patterns and Processes Across Sites and Species" Supported by the Lamfrom Fund
Apr. 3	Maureen Hoatlin PhD (Biochemistry and Molecular Biology & Molecular and Medical Genetics, Hematologic Malignancies Program, OHSU Knight Cancer Institute) "Targeting the Fanconi Anemia/BRCA DNA Damage Response Network" Supported by the Lamfrom Fund
Apr. 10	John H. Willis PhD (Biology Department, Duke University) "Genetic basis of adaptation and speciation in Mimulus" Supported by the Ellis Fund
Apr. 17	Emily Wiley PhD (Joint Science Department of the Claremont Colleges) "Dynamic packaging of genomes: big revelations from a quirky little cell" Supported by the Lamfrom Fund
Apr. 24	S.T.A.R. Lectures: Students Talking About Research (brief lectures presented by thesis students about their respective thesis projects) Laura Bradley - “Inhibiting secretion from bag cells increases prohormone mRNA trafficking to the neurites” Julia Carlton - “One bad mother: functional genomics of maternal aggression in an African cichlid fish” Danial Glaser -“Where’s the ETEC?: Infection and chemical protection in the C. elegans intestine” Clare Parker -“Sex and violence in juveniles: size, aggression, and a possible social mechanism for sex determination in Austatotilapia burtoni”
Apr. 28 (note: specieal Tuesday seminar)	S.T.A.R. Lectures: Students Talking About Research (brief lectures presented by thesis students about their respective thesis projects) Molly Schumer - “Comparisons of gene expression and behavior in a sex-role conventional and sex-role reversed cichlid species pair (Julidochromis)” Jeannette Tenthorey - “Regulation of virulence in Enteropathogenic E. coli: in search of Ler’s DNA binding sequence” Angeline Wolski -“Predicting invasive species potential distribution according to the niche conservatism theory”