Seminars
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 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).
2010-11 Schedule
Fall
4:10-5:00 in Biology B-19 (unless otherwise noted).
Directions to Reed.
| Sept 2 | Time: 7:30 PM Location: Vollum lecture hall Life in Transition: Origins, Energy, and Adaptation at the Junction of the Life and Physical SciencesJames P. Collins PhD, School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University Sponsor: Supported by the Dean of Faculty. Cosponsored by the Reed environmental studies program. |
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| Sept 3 | Extinction in Our Times. Global Amphibian Decline James P. Collins PhD, School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University Sponsor: Supported by the Dean of Faculty. |
| Sept 10 | Student Summer Research Presentations: A poster session Sponsor: Supported by the ASM Undergraduate Research Fellowship, Milton L. Fischer Memorial Field Research Fellowship, Betty Liu Fellowship Fund, Mellon Foundation, Murdock Foundation, National Institute of Health, National Science Foundation, and the Reed College Science Research Fellowship. |
| Sept 17 | Quantifying evolutionary process from mutations to natural selection Charles B. Fenster PhD, Department of Biology, University of Maryland Sponsor: Supported by the Ellis Fund. |
| Sept 24 | Lysosomal Ubiquitin and the demise of 'Mycobacterium tuberculosis' Georgiana Purdy PhD, Dept of Molecular Microbiology & Immunology, Oregon Health & Science University Sponsor: Supported by the Lamfrom Fund. |
| Oct 1 | Discovery of a Neuronal Degradation Pathway in Drosophilia Peter Robin Hiesinger PhD, Dept of Physiology and Green Center for Systems Biology, UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas Sponsor: Supported by the Lamfrom Fund. |
| Oct 8 | The NO/ONOO- cycle as a new paradigm of human disease: Testing it in Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and ALS Martin L. Pall PhD, School of Molecular Biosciences, Washington State University Sponsor: Supported by the Liu Fund. |
| Oct 15 | No seminar--Friday before Fall break |
| Oct 22 | No seminar--Fall break |
| Oct 29 | Department Information Seminar: "What Next? Career Paths of Reed Biology Majors" |
| Nov 5 | An Approach to Eliminating the Pool of HIV Latently Infected Cells Milton Yatvin PhD, Ruben Lab, Biology Department, Reed College Sponsor: Supported by the Lamfrom Fund. |
| Nov 12 | What structural biology and biophysics tell us about how cellular motor proteins work Elisar Barbar PhD, Biochemistry and Biophysics Dept, Oregon State University Sponsor: Supported by the Lamfrom Fund. |
| Nov 19 | Two Centuries of Coevolution Research Chris Smith PhD, Department of Biology, Willamette University Sponsor: Supported by the Ellis Fund. |
| Nov 26 | No seminar--Thanksgiving break |
Spring
4:10-5:00 in Biology B-19 (unless otherwise noted).
Directions to Reed.
| Mar 4 | Science Gone Translational: The OX40 Story from Mice to Monkeys to Man Andrew D. Weinberg PhD, Laboratory of Basic Immunology, Robert W. Franz Cancer Research Center, Providence Health & Services, Portland OR and OHSU Microbiology & Immunology Dept Sponsor: Supported by the Lamfrom Fund |
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| Feb 4 | Biology Department Information Seminar: "Summer Research Opportunities, both here and there, A Panel Discussion" |
| Feb 17 | Time: 4:15 PM Location: Psychology 105 NSF STEM PROGRAM presents an INTERDEPARTMENTAL SCIENCE SEMINAR: "Building a New Biology"Drew Endy PhD, Stanford Bioengineering, The BioBricks Foundation |
| Mar 9 | Time: 7:30 PM Location: Kaul Auditorium Green Biotech, Green Slums, Green Nukes, Green GeoengineeringStewart Brand PhD, The Long Now Foundation and Global Business Network, CA |
| Mar 11 | Three Short Stories of Pavlov's Flies Steven de Belle PhD, Biology, Dart NeuroScience LLC, San Diego CA Sponsor: Supported by the Ellis Fund |
| Mar 18 | No seminar--Friday before Spring break |
| Mar 25 | No seminar--Spring break |
| Apr 1 | Regulatory networks and polygenic evolution from fungi to human Rachel Brem PhD, Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley Sponsor: Supported by the Lamfrom Fund |
| Apr 8 | Engineering the Microbe Electric Jeffrey A. Gralnick PhD, Department of Microbiology and BioTechnology Institute, University of Wisconsin, Madison |
| Apr 15 | Exploring the genetic basis of enhanced photoprotection in natural allotetraploids using comparative transcriptomics Jeremy Coate, PhD (Reed '92), Dept. of Plant Biology, Cornell University |
| Apr 22 | They Sing the Body Electric: Evolution and Physiology of Sexually Dimorphic Communication in Electric Fish G. Troy Smith PhD, Department of Biology, Center for the Integrative Study of Animal Behavior, Indiana University, Bloomington Sponsor: Supported by the Ellis Fund |
| Apr 29 | S.T.A.R. Lectures: Students Talking About Research (brief lectures presented by thesis students about their respective thesis projects) Camille Charlier Matt Hagen Katherine Thomas Laural Oldach |
| May 3 | S.T.A.R. Lectures: Students Talking About Research (brief lectures presented by thesis students about their respective thesis projects) Advait Jukar Holly Cho Quinn Langdon David Toffey |