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).
2012-13 Schedule
Fall
4:10-5:00 in Biology B-19 (unless otherwise noted).
Directions to Reed.
| Aug 31 | Location: Chemistry Patio Student Summer Research Presentations: A poster session |
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| Sept 7 | "Gene gain, gene loss, and gene movement in evolution" Matthew Hahn, Dept of Biology and School of Informatics & Computing, Indiana University Sponsor: Ellis Fund |
| Sept 14 | Three short department faculty talks David Dalton "Enhancing stress in transgenic poplar"; Keith Karoly "What I don't know about copy number variation in plant ribosomal genes"; Jeremy Coate '92 (Schaack Lab Visiting Scholar) "Exploring a polyploid translatome" |
| Sept 21 | Library/Computer User Services: Info Session for Biology Majors Library/CUS Staff |
| Sept 28 | "The origin and loss of diversity at the S-locus in Brassicaceae" Jeremiah W. Busch, School of Biological Sciences, Washington State University Sponsor: Ellis Fund |
| Oct 5 | "Polyphenism and the origins of diversity" David W. Pfennig, Dept of Biology, University of North Carolina Sponsor: Liu Fund |
| Oct 12 | No seminar-Friday before fall break |
| Oct 19 | No seminar--Fall break |
| Oct 26 | "PinX1 v. Telomerase: No end to the debate" Janis Shampay, Biology Dept, Reed College Sponsor: Lamfrom Fund |
| Nov 2 | "Courtship negotiations in sage-grouse: experiments using a robotic female" Gail L. Patricelli, Dept of Evolution & Ecology, University of California, Davis Sponsor: Ellis Fund |
| Nov 9 | "Genomics of Plant Speciation" Loren Rieseberg, Dept of Botany and Biodiversity Research Centre, University of British Columbia Sponsor: Liu Fund |
| Nov 16 | Biology Department Information Seminar: "Summer Research Opportunities, both here & there, A Panel Discussion" |
Spring
4:10-5:00 in Biology B-19 (unless otherwise noted).
Directions to Reed.
| Feb 1 | "Modern biology meets agriculture: why this stuff matters, and why it's really interesting" Keith Allen '83, Science and Technology Fellow, Syngenta Biotechnology Sponsor: Liu Fund |
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| Feb 8 | "Active sensing supports 3-D spatial perception and navigation in echolocating bats" Cynthia F. Moss, Dept of Psychological and Brain Sciences and Neuroscience at Johns Hopkins University Sponsor: Liu Fund |
| Feb 15 | "Specificity and evolution of bacterial signaling pathways" Michael T. Laub, HHMI & Department of Biology, MIT Sponsor: Gabriel Lester Memorial Fund |
| Feb 22 | "Post-translational regulation of c-Myc's oncogenic activity" Rosalie Sears, Molecular & Medical Genetics, Oregon Health & Sciences University Sponsor: Lamfrom Fund |
| Mar 1 | "Maternal and paternal influences over gene expression in the brain" Christopher Gregg, Neurobiology and Anatomy, University of Utah Sponsor: Lamfrom Fund |
| Mar 7 | Time: 4:30 PM Location: Psych 105 "Harnessing adult hippocampal neurogenesis to enhance cognition and modulate mood"Amar Sahay PhD, Harvard/Massachusetts General Hospital Sponsor: Biology Department & Office for Institutional Diversity |
| Mar 8 | "What your brain uses to think: the biology of synapses and their control" Timothy A. Ryan, Dept of Biochemistry, Weill Cornell Medical College Sponsor: Lamfrom Fund |
| Mar 15 | No seminar--Friday before Spring Break |
| Mar 22 | No seminar--Spring Break |
| Mar 29 | "Wnt signaling, stem cells and tissue maintenance" Roeland Nusse PhD, Dept of Developmental Biology, Stanford University Sponsor: Lamfrom Fund |
| Apr 3 | Time: 12:00 PM Location: Psych 105 "Genetics of cannabinoid biosynthesis in America's most controversial plant, 'Cannabis sativa'"George Weiblen '92, Dept of Plant Biology, University of Minnesota Sponsor: Liu Fund |
| Apr 5 | "Untargeted metabolomics for discovery of biological activity" Fred Stevens, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Oregon State University Sponsor: Lamfrom Fund |
| Apr 12 | Location: Vollum Lecture Hall "Next-generation sequencing data interpretation: enhancing reproducibility and accessibility"Anton Nekrutenko, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Penn State University Sponsor: Lamfrom Fund |
| Apr 19 | "Genome defense, gene silencing, and epigenetic dynamics in Neurospora" Eric U. Selker '75, Institute of Molecular Biology, University of Oregon Sponsor: Lamfrom Fund |
| Apr 26 | S.T.A.R. Lectures Emily Crotteau Ethan Linck Ben Puliafito Colin Townes-Anderson |