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).

Fall

4:10-5:00 in Biology B-19 (unless otherwise noted).
Directions to Reed.

Sept 5	Time: 12:00 PM SPECIAL JOB TALK SEMINAR: "The regulation of actin-microtubule cross-linking by the 'Drosophila spectraplakin' Short-stop" Derek Applewhite, Postdoctoral Associate, Dept of Biology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Sept 6	Location: Chemistry Patio Summer Research Poster Session Summer '13 Research Assistants
Sept 13	"Ler of pathogenic 'E. coli': causes and cures" Jay Mellies, Biology Department, Reed College Sponsor: Lamfrom Fund
Sept 20	"Adaptive evolution and coevolution of sperm - egg recognition molecules" Willie J. Swanson, Dept of Genome Sciences, University of Washington Sponsor: Lamfrom Fund
Sept 27	Internal Info Session for Biology Majors CAT/CUS
Oct 4	"The search for efficiency in synthesis: from natural products to palladium" Silas Cook '99, Chemistry Department, Indiana University Sponsor: Chemistry/Biology Departments
Oct 11	"A spineless tale: Those amazing cephalopods" Nathan Tublitz '74, Dept of Biology, University of Oregon Sponsor: Ellis Fund
Oct 18	NO SEMINAR--FRIDAY BEFORE FALL BREAK
Oct 25	NO SEMINAR--FALL BREAK
Nov 1	"Translating science: Writing about research for fun, profit, and the common good" Michelle Nijhuis '96, Science journalist and contributor to National Geographic Magazine Sponsor: Ellis Fund
Nov 8	"How does a complex tissue develop so many cell types? Clues from the retina" Connie Cepko, Genetics and Neuroscience, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard Medical School Sponsor: Liu Fund
Nov 15	"Wired to cooperate: neural mechanisms of duet singing in a neotropical wren" Melissa J. Coleman, Keck Science Dept of Claremont McKenna, Pitzer and Scripps Colleges Sponsor: Ellis Fund
Nov 22	Summer Internships Info Session

Spring

4:10-5:00 in Biology B-19 (unless otherwise noted).
Directions to Reed.

Jan 31	"Using fruit flies to unravel the mechanisms of neurodegenerative disorders" Mary A. Logan, Jungers Center for Neurosciences Research, Oregon Health & Science University Sponsor: Lamfrom Fund
Feb 7	"Post-translational control of the c-Myc oncoprotein in human cancer" Rosalie Sears '86, Molecular & Medical Genetics, Oregon Health & Science University Sponsor: Lamfrom Fund CANCELED due to inclement weather; RESCHEDULED for Tuesday, February 25 at noon in B19
Feb 14	"Feeling protein-DNA and protein-protein interactions from single-molecule mechanical responses" Jie Yan, Dept of Physics and Mechanobiology Institute, National University of Singapore Sponsor: Lamfrom Fund
Feb 21	Library and Qual Information Seminar Biology Faculty/Library Staff, Reed College
Feb 25	Time: 12:00 PM "Post-translational control of the c-Myc oncoprotein in human cancer" Rosalie Sears '86, Molecular & Medical Genetics, Oregon Health & Science University Sponsor: Lamfrom Fund
Feb 28	"Monkeyflower business: Genomic and molecular perspectives on the repeated evolution of flower color patterning" Arielle Cooley, Biology Dept, Whitman College Sponsor: Lamfrom Fund
Mar 7	"Cyanobacterial heterocyst development, nitrogen fixation, and biofuels" James W. Golden, Div of Biological Sciences, Molecular Biology Section, University of California, San Diego Sponsor: Lamfrom Fund
Mar 14	NO SEMINAR--FRIDAY BEFORE SPRING BREAK
Mar 21	NO SEMINAR--SPRING BREAK
Mar 28	P.E.R.T.: Post-docs Explaining Research Talks Jeremy Coate '92 (Schaack Lab) "Polyploidy and transcriptome size: does genome doubling cause transcriptome doubling" Kristy Lawton (Zornik Lab) "From neurons to behavior: elucidating frog vocal circuitry" Cynthia O'Rourke (Renn Lab) "Causes and consequences of mate competition in the fantail darter"
Apr 4	"Anti-Antibiotics: Outside-the-Box Approaches to Combat Leading Human Bacterial Pathogens" Victor Nizet '84, Dept of Pediatrics, Div of Infectious Diseases, UCSD Sponsor: Lamfrom Fund
Apr 11	"Genetics of mammalian color patterns: model systems in a post-genome world" Greg Barsh, HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology/Stanford University Sponsor: Gabriel Lester Memorial Fund
Apr 18	"Microbe vs. microbe at the OK corral; global change and the biogeography of soil microbes" Ferran Garcia-Pichel, School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University Sponsor: Lamfrom Fund
Apr 24	Time: 1:10 PM "Reconstruction of signaling networks in cancer" Paul Spellman , OHSU Molecular & Medical Genetics Sponsor: Lamfrom Fund Special computational biology seminar
Apr 25	S.T.A.R.s (Students Talking About Research) Matthew Keeslar (Zornik Lab) "Mefloquine Got Your Tongue? Antimalarials and Fictive Frog Vocalizations" Kimmy Stanton (Karoly Lab) "The Genetic Basis of the Floral Color Transition in Two Closely Related Larksput" "Soso" Xue Yuan (Mellies Lab) "Alternative Sigma E-dependent Pathway Mediates Inhibition of LEE Virulence by Zinc"