SPRING 09 BIOLOGY GUEST SPEAKERS

all seminars are 4:30 – 5:30 in Emerson Auditorium, Palamountain

26 March 09 – Michael Dietrich , Biology Department, Dartmouth College , NH , www.dartmouth.edu/~dietrich/. Lecture Title: "Johannes Holtfreter and the Politics of Gastrulation"

2 April 09 – Larry Hufford , Professor & Director, Marion Ownbey Herbarium, School of Biological Sciences, Washington State University . www.wsu.edu/~hufford/ . Lecture Title: “Keys to Innovation:  Ontogenetic Avenues to Flower Specialization in Loasaceae”

9 April 09 – Anthony Chan , Assistant Professor, Division of Neuroscience, Yerkes National Primates Research Center, Department of Human Genetics, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA. http://genetics.emory.edu/FACULTY/faculty_bio_chan.php . Lecture Title: “Nonhuman primate models in biomedical research: In vitro vs In vivo”

16 April 09 – Alice Brennan , Biology Major, Class of 1975, Associate General Counsel & Head of the Office of Integrity & Compliance, Verizon Wireless; and Andrew Burling , Biology Major, Class of 1975, Managing Partner, GO INFUSION , to speak about the more general value of Liberal Arts Science Degrees.