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).
2014-15 Schedule
Fall
4:10-5:00 in Biology B-19 (unless otherwise noted).
Directions to Reed.
Sept 5 | Location: Chemistry Patio Summer Research Poster SessionSummer '14 Research Assistants Sponsor: Lamfrom Fund |
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Sept 12 | "The Genomics Jigsaw: Understanding the Evolutionary Dynamics and Consequences of Mutation from the Inside Out" Sarah Schaack, Biology Department, Reed College Sponsor: Lamfrom Fund |
Sept 19 | "Transitions to asexuality and polyploidy in 'Daphnia'" France Dufresne, Visiting Scholar, Département de biologie, Université du Québec à Rimouski Sponsor: Lamfrom Fund |
Sept 26 | Library and CUS Session/Senior thesis advice Library/CUS Staff, Reed College |
Oct 3 | "Natural pest control in coffee: a story about complexity and biodiversity" Heidi Liere, Visiting Scholar, Biology Department, Reed College Sponsor: Liu Fund |
Oct 10 | "Spatial Hearing in Cluttered Acoustical Environments" Terry Takahashi, Institute of Neuroscience, University of Oregon Sponsor: Liu Fund |
Oct 17 | No seminar, Friday before fall break |
Oct 24 | No seminar, fall break |
Oct 31 | "Swamps and Stress: Hypoxia as a driver of phenotypic divergence in African fishes" Lauren Chapman, Department of Biology, McGill University Sponsor: Liu Fund |
Nov 7 | Location: Music Rehearsal Room, Performing Arts Building (PAB 320) "Life on the wild side: ecological and social environments get under the skin in a wild primate population"Jeanne Altmann, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University Sponsor: Ellis Fund Parents Weekend |
Nov 14 | "Developing specialized phytochemical factories as future sources of biofuels, petrochemical substitutes, specialty chemicals, and medicinals" Norman G. Lewis, Institute of Biological Chemistry, Washington State University Sponsor: Lamfrom Fund |
Nov 21 | "Two bacterial genomes with the functionality of one: nonadaptive speciation in a symbiont" John McCutcheon, Division of Biological Sciences, The University of Montana Sponsor: Lamfrom Fund |
Nov 28 | No seminar, Thanksgiving break |
Dec 5 | No seminar, Fall senior theses due |
Spring
4:10-5:00 in Biology B-19 (unless otherwise noted).
Directions to Reed.
Jan 30 | Biology Post-doc Talks Michael Martin, "From fish to flies: a role for behavior in speciation and immunity" and Morgan Mouchka, "Tentacles and denticles: immune mechanisms in sea anemones and fruit flies", Schlenke Lab, Biology Department, Reed College Sponsor: Lamfrom Fund |
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Feb 6 | "LAVA flow and genomic earthquakes: the gibbon has it all!" Lucia Carbone, Dept of Behavioral Neuroscience & ONPRC Div of Neuroscience, Oregon Health & Science University Sponsor: Lamfrom Fund |
Feb 13 | "Evolution of bacterial genomes: genes lost, found and reused" Rahul Raghavan, Biology Department, Portland State University Sponsor: Lamfrom Fund |
Feb 20 | "Novel modes of cellular communication: from specialized ribosomes to signaling filopodia" Maria Barna, Depts of Developmental Biology & Genetics, Stanford University School of Medicine Sponsor: Liu Fund |
Feb 27 | "Development and evolutionary diversification of adult pigment pattern in 'Danio' fishes" David Parichy '91, Dept of Biology, University of Washington Sponsor: Ellis Fund |
Mar 6 | Visit from CAT rep/Qual Info Session TBA/Biology faculty |
Mar 13 | "The metabolism of an immune response: How do cells really proliferate?" Jeff Rathmell, Vanderbilt University Medical Center Sponsor: Lamfrom Fund Hosted by biology's 2014-15 senior class |
Mar 20 | No seminar, Friday before spring break |
Mar 27 | No seminar, spring break |
Apr 3 | "Duplication, disease and the evolution of the human genome" Evan Eichler, Dept of Genome Sciences, University of Washington Sponsor: Lamfrom Fund |
Apr 10 | "Motors, microtubules and axonal growth" Vladimir I. Gelfand, Dept of Cell & Molecular Biology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University Sponsor: Lamfrom Fund |
Apr 17 | "How ubiquitin orchestrates decisions on endosomes" Robert C. Piper '85, Dept of Molecular Physiology & Biophysics/Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa Sponsor: Lamfrom Fund |
Apr 24 | S.T.A.R.s (Students Talking About Research) Biology Department Thesis Students, Reed College Jossef Osborn (Mellies Lab) Elizabeth Pekarskaya (Medall/Zornik Labs) Rich Posert (Shampay Lab) |
May 1 | No seminar, Spring senior theses due |