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Biology Biology.Richmond.Edu Facts Biology biology.richmond.edu facts facility, greenhouse and herbarium, DNA Students often present results of their Why Study Biology? sequencers, modern electrophysiological investigations at the Richmond Arts & There is nothing more natural than curiosity equipment, microscopes related to computer Science Undergraduate Research about the living world. Studying biology imaging technology, thermocyclers, and Symposium and at regional and national gives you the tools to understand and digital gel documentation are all available meetings. Students also publish findings think critically about how life works and for student and faculty use. The University with faculty in scientific literature. evolves at all different levels, from molecules owns a 20-foot Boston Whaler that serves to cells to organisms to ecosystems. as a research vessel for oceanographic and marine research, and the department has Recent Publications with additional vehicles to reach field sites and Student Co-Authors The Biology Curriculum an array of collection and sampling gear. Because biology today is a broad and Wu, C.A., Streisfeld, M.A., Nutter, L.I., rapidly changing field, the curriculum for and Cross, K.* 2013. The genetic basis majors and nonmajors alike starts with Internships and of a rare flower color polymorphism in biological principles. The program then Mimulus lewisii provides insight into focuses on building other important skills: Career Opportunities the repeatability of evolution. PLoS the ability to think critically and to Students are encouraged to participate in ONE 8(12): e81173. synthesize information; to find and extract internships that offer practical experience Rivera, A., Winters, I.*, Rued, A.*, Ding information from continually expanding in careers related to life sciences. Biology S.*, Posfai, D.*, Cieniewicz, B.*, databases; to formulate hypotheses and graduates enter a variety of fields, including Cameron, K., Gentile, L., and Hill, A. design appropriately controlled experiments medical professions, teaching, biological (2013) The evolution and function of to test these hypotheses; to analyze and research, forensics, museum restoration, the Pax/Six regulatory network in evaluate data and draw scientifically valid natural history, science illustration, science sponges. Evolution and Development. conclusions from that data; and to writing and publishing, photography, and In press. communicate clearly and succinctly, both agricultural professions, such as forestry, Daugherty, A.*, Suvarnapunya, A.E., and orally and in writing. wildlife management, and conservation Runyen-Janecky, L.J. 2012. The Role of Requirements for a biology degree include biology. OxyR and SoxRS in oxidative stress introduction to biological thinking; three survival in Shigella flexneri. Microbiol. courses from three different conceptual Res. 167: 238-245. areas; introductory chemistry; organic Departmental Hill M., Massaro, A.*, Weisz, J., and chemistry I and II; and five additional units Webster N. (2012) Selective filtration of upper-level elective biology courses. The Scholarships/Fellowships and reduced pumping rates in response Bachelor of Science degree requires one The Denoon Scholarship and Cole to thermal stress in the Great Barrier year of calculus and two approved Memorial Scholarship are available annually Reef sponge Rhopaloides odorabile. quantitative science courses. Partnerships to natural science students. The John Journal of Experimental Marine Biology exist with several programs including Neasmith Dickinson Memorial Research and Ecology. 416-417: 55-60. Duke University Marine Sciences Award and the Robert F. Smart Award in * indicates student coauthor Laboratory, the Marine Biological Biology are fellowships awarded to biology Laboratory in Woods Hole, Mass.; and majors to support summer research projects. the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. Recent Student Presentations Study abroad is also encouraged. at National Meetings Undergraduate Research Hill, M., Hill, A., Cotman, C.*, Friday, S.*, The biology faculty’s varied research interests Heist, T.*, McCauley, M.*, Peterson, K.*, Facilities and Equipment provide opportunities for students to Richardson, C. *, Riesgo, A., and Biology shares the state-of-the-art become involved in independent research. Gottwald Center for the Sciences with the Majors are encouraged to join a faculty Strehlow, B.*, “Evolutionary and chemistry and physics departments. This research program early in their studies. ecological significance of sponge- arrangement encourages collaboration Each semester, more than 50 students Symbiodinium symbioses: genetic among faculty and students in the three pursue independent research, and more than regulation of uptake and maintenance in disciplines. In addition to well-equipped 60 stay during the summer for 10 weeks sponges.” Society for Integrative and teaching and research labs, the facility of full-time research. Faculty research Comparative Biology. January 2013 features a central reading room with grants, the Richmond undergraduate (San Francisco, CA) electronic access to reference materials research committee, department awards, Hill, M., Strehlow, B.*, Richardson, C.*, that are updated and expanded daily. UR Summer Fellowships, and institutional Peterson, K.*, Cotman, C.*, McCauley, The department maintains diverse, grants support students in this work. M.*, Friday, S.*, Heist, T.*, Riesgo, A. modern equipment to support teaching Collaborations with other departments are and Hill, A. “Genetic regulation of and research. An imaging center (TEM, encouraged (for example, a biology and zooxanthella uptake and maintenance SEM, and confocal microscope), animal psychology concentration in neuroscience). in sponges.” 12th International Coral 9 Reef Symposium. July 2012 (Cairns, Angela Hilliker Australia) IQ Science, URISE, and SMART Ph.D., University of Chicago Moore M.E.*, Smith, C.J.*, and Wu, C.A.. Continuing support from the Howard Hughes Area of specialty: yeast molecular genetics Genetic and phenotypic analysis of natural Medical Institute has allowed the University to freeze tolerance variation in Mimulus expand science faculty, create new courses, and Roni J. Kingsley wildflowers. First Joint Congress on develop an Integrated Quantitative Science Ph.D., University of South Carolina Evolutionary Biology, Ottawa, Canada. course (IQS), a year-long sequence. Open to Area of specialty: calcification in marine July 2012. first-year students, the course combines invertebrates and protists * indicates student copresenter biology, chemistry, computer science, math, and physics in an integrated way to solve Omar A. Quintero scientific problems. The latest grant, for Ph.D., Duke University Schools Accepting $1.4 million, supports two new experiences: Area of specialty: role of molecular motors in • URISE: University of Richmond Integrated mitochondrial motility Recent Graduates Science Experience is a comprehensive Gary P. Radice Duke University program combining early and extensive Ph.D., Yale University Emory University undergraduate research with an emphasis on Area of specialty: development of three- Harvard University interdisciplinary STEM education. URISE is dimensional body patterns in vertebrates Massachusetts Institute of Technology a summer pre-first-year research experience The Ohio State University that aims to remove barriers for underrep- Maren B. Reiner The Rockefeller University resented students in STEM disciplines. M.S., New York University Stanford University • Science, Math, and Research Training Director of Nonmajors Biology Laboratories (SMART) combines introductory biology Tufts University Laura Runyen-Janecky University of California, Berkeley and chemistry with a coordinated calculus course. Ph.D., University of Wisconsin University of Chicago Area of specialty: bacterial molecular genetics University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill University of Texas Faculty Peter D. Smallwood University of Virginia Ph.D., University of Arizona Linda M. Boland Area of specialty: behavioral ecology of Vanderbilt University Department Chair Virginia Commonwealth University foraging in small mammals and terrestrial Ph.D., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill invertebrates Virginia Tech Areas of specialty: ion channel function, Washington University synaptic memory formation Krista Stenger Yale University Ph.D., Virginia Commonwealth University Emily J. Boone Areas of specialty: synthesis, release and actions M.S., University of South Alabama of catecholamines in macrophages Medical Schools Accepting Director of Biology Labs Amy M. Treonis Recent Graduates R. Jory Brinkerhoff Ph.D., Colorado State University Brown University Ph.D., University of Colorado, Boulder Area of specialty: microbial ecology Case Western Reserve University School of Areas of specialty: epidemiology, vector-bourne Medicine zoonotic disease dynamics John Vaughan Columbia University Ph.D., Virginia Commonwealth University Christine Davis Director of Pre-Health Education Weill Cornell Medical College B.A., Mary Baldwin College Drexel University School of Medicine Director of Microscopy & Imaging John Warrick Emory University School of Medicine Ph.D., Temple University Florida State University College of Medicine Rafael O. de Sá Area of specialty: analysis of neurodegenerative Jefferson Medical School Ph.D., University of Texas, Austin disease via transgenic Drosophilia Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Distinguished Educator Award, 1998 Mayo Medical School Areas of specialty:
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