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Faculty Research 2006/2007 |
| Many faculty take research students during the academic year and summer. Please contact each professor directly that you might be interested in working with. |
| Lamont Anderson:
Studies on prokaryote molecular biology and physiology using Chromobacterium violaceum:
(1) characterization of function in a Serratia-type hemolysin and transporter from C. violaceum
(2) investigation of secondary transport functions in the C. violaceum hemolysin transporter
(3) development of a genetic exchange methodology for C. violaceum
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| Ralph Bertrand: |
| Ron Capen: |
| Jim Ebersole: |
| Ron Hathaway: |
| Werner Heim: Evolution, Human Genetics, and protection of human subjects. |
| Shane Heschel:
How plant physiology evolves in stressful environments:
1. interactions between drought response and phytochrome genes
2. drought response as a determinant of species range limits
3. tradeoffs between UV tolerance, pollinator attraction, and carbon assimilation rate
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| Zach Jones: |
| Tass Kelso: |
| Miro Kummel: |
| Brian Linkhart: |
| Phoebe Lostroh: I want to know how bacterial cells sense and respond to the environment. Unlike cells living in animals, which live in a constant, controlled environment, bacteria change gene expression in response to environmental cues in order to exploit or survive constantly changing environments. My interest in this topic ranges from the very molecular (how does one particular signal transduction protein, HilA, work) through the physiological (what signaling circuits are activated in particular environments) to the metagenomic (how do genes involved with signaling vary across populations of related bacteria?). My main research program is to study the transcription factor HilA, a Salmonella protein that turns virulence genes on. In this case, the particular virulence genes are ones that help Salmonella exploit the environment of the host small intestine. The virulence genes that HilA turns on provoke a strong anti-Salmonella immune response, so Salmonella are careful to turn these genes on ONLY when they are most needed. Therefore, figuring out how HilA “knows” when to turn genes on is of critical importance. It is possible that interfering with HilA would even be a good anti-Salmonella treatment. Recent student projects in my lab have included mutagenesis and screening of hilA alleles and attempts at purifying HilA protein to use it for in vitro studies. This summer, students will continue these projects and also start a new one investigating the role of HilA during Salmonella infection of a model invertebrate, the worm Caenorhabditis elegans. Other recent students have worked on a different organism, Vibrio fischeri, studying various aspects of its physiology related to biofilm formation, which appears to be triggered by different environmental signals in different V. fischeri strains.556 |
| Marc Snyder: |
| Alex Vargo: |
| Mark Wilson: |
The Biology Department hosts two listserves, which list internships (mostly summer), research opportunities (mostly summer), and graduate school opportunities.
EVINTERNSHIPS lists ecology, field & lab biology, conservation, and evolutionary biology opportunities: http://listserv.coloradocollege.edu/archives/HTML/EVINTERNSHIPS.HTML
LABJOBS contains lab biology opportunities to subscribe or to unsubscribe from one of these listserves: http://listserv1.coloradocollege.edu/archives/LABJOBS.HTML
If you want to change the email address to which the postings are sent, unsubscribe with the old address and subscribe with the new address.
REU "Research Experiences for Undergraduates" Opportunities & Programs: www.nsf.gov/crssprgm/reu/index.jsp Applications for these opportunities are usually due in February.
For Pre-Med and Health Profession information, visit http://www.coloradocollege.edu/HealthProfessions/links.htm
Please visit
http://www.grinnell.edu/academic/biology/links/ for links to
the following information:
In Preparation for the future (Students)
* National Academy of Science Publications - Careers in
Science and Engineering
* American Society for Microbiology - Careers
Grad School Resources
(as referenced at the department seminar on 9/19/01)
* NSF Graduate Research Fellowships
* NIH Postbaccalaureate and Graduate School Opportunities
* Howard Hughes Medical Institute
* Association of Schools of Public Health (ASPH)
* Gradschools.com
* Peterson's Guide to graduate programs
* U.S. News Graduate Schools
* The Council for Graduate Schools - A site with links for grad
school advice and resources for applicants in any discipline.
* GradView - Another good general source of information for
graduate school preparation no matter what your area of interest.
* Graduate Record Examination (GRE)
* Graduate School in the Life Sciences - An excellent guide with
many, many links to important information. The site also has its
own advice section and brings up things you should be pondering.
A great clearinghouse of info. on basically everything even very
specific types of fellowships that you may not have thought of.
* Primer on Selecting and "Winning" Admission to Grad Schools in
Ecol.
and Evol. Biol. - Excellent advice for every step of the process
from early preparation to your final selection.
* Graduate School Advice - At the bottom of the page there are a
series of links to advice on graduate school planning, deciding
whether or not you are ready, selecting and evaluating programs,
etc.
* Step by Step Grad School Advice - One person's step-by-step
through deciding to go to grad school, the nature of it,
identifying a potential lab match, applying, letters of
recommendation, etc.
* Grad School Advice from a Student at Berkeley - Starting out in
school, how to do research everything you ever wanted to know
about grad school, etc. This is one person's collection of links.
The bias here is for links relevant to computer science, but
there are some general grad school survival guide type links as
well.
* Graduate School: Is it for you? - This link includes the same
type of planning info as the rest steps in the process, tips on
narrowing your search, etc. but it also includes a link to the
pros and cons of grad school.
* Careers in Science and Engineering: Student Planning Guide to
Grad School and Beyond - The table of contents from a book meant
to be used as a planning guide not only for grad school, but also
for career planning in general in the sciences. Each item in the
table of contents is linked to a web version of the chapter or
sub-section of the book. This book includes advice as well as
individual profiles that tell for professionals in different
fields "how they got where they are".
* Applying to graduate School in Biology - This site has some
links that are redundant with those provided here, but it also
has some links for specific types of grad programs you might be
interested in.
* General Information on Graduate School in Biology - Guides to
different specialties and programs within biology pretty
specific info for Wash. U. St. Louis students, but good for
descriptions of the general fields within biology...
* Graduate School Advisory Guide - Good advice about the process,
but especially good advice about using the web in your grad
school search some important points to consider that may help you
evaluate the web as a resource it just may leave you wanting to
look at other search/info.
gathering options (i.e., mail in cards for programs, or sending
requests for the department's recent mail-out info.)
Specific Graduate School Opportunities
* Graduate Program Partnership between the National Institutes of
Health and the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill - Cell
Motility and the Cytoskeleton
* Washington University- Evolution, Ecology and Population
Biology
* Univ. of California Riverside - Entomol., Evol. & Ecol., "Tritrophic
Interactions" position
* University of Alaska Anchorage-Fairbanks, Evolutionary Biology,
Population Genetics, Systematics, Molecular Ecology. Two year
fellowships.
* University of Missouri-St. Louis; Ecology, Evolution and
Systematics
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