Reed College Biology Department

BIOLOGY DEPARTMENT SEMINAR PROGRAM

Spring Semester, 1998




The following was the seminar schedule for the Spring semester of the 1997-1998 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
Jan. 30

Dr. Kent L. Thornburg, (Dept. of Physiology & Pharmacology, Director of the Congenital Heart Research Center, Oregon Health Sciences Univ.).
"Regulation of Heart Growth Before Birth"
(Supported by the Sam B. Liu Fund)

Feb. 6

INFORMATION SEMINAR: A panel discussion by the Biology Department Faculty.
"Opportunities for Summer Research"

Feb. 13
(please note
new date)

Dr. Stevan J. Arnold, (Dept. of Zoology, Oregon State Univ.).
"Building a bridge from micro- to macroevolution: lessons from natricine snakes"
(Supported by the Ellis Fund)

Feb. 27

The 1998 GABRIEL LESTER MEMORIAL BIOLOGY LECTURE

Dr. Stanley Fields, (Howard Hughes Medical Inst., Dept. of Genetics, Univ. of Washington).
"Genomic Approaches to Protein Function"
(Supported by the Gabriel Lester Fund)

March 6

Dr. Robert H. Kaplan, (Reed Biology Dept.).
"The Evolution of Maternal Influences on Developmental Plasticity in Amphibians: The Inheritance of Environmental Effects"

March 13

Dr. James W. Truman, (Dept. of Zoology, Univ. of Washington).
"The use of hormonal cascades to organize behavioral sequences in insects"
(Supported by the Sam B. Liu Fund)

Apr. 3

Dr. Lonnie J. Guralnick (Dept. of Biology, Western Oregon Univ.)
"Studies of Crassulacean Acid Metabolism in the Portulacaceae"
(Supported by the Sam B. Liu Fund)

Apr. 24

Reed Senior Thesis Students (May graduates).
"S.T.A.R.S. (Students Talking about Research Seminar)"
    Lucy Goodwin, "Growth factor regulation of feline oviductal stroma: IGF-1-induced ERK activity, proliferation and morphological changes in culture."
    Sarah Davidson, "Agrobacterium mediated transformation of soybean Glycine max."
    Nikhil Anand,"Your space or mine? Territoriality in Plethodontid salamanders."




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