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Biorythms: Undergraduate Biology Newsletter

BIOrhythms October 2009 featuring the Ecology and Evolution Track, Tyson Research Center and Undergraduate Opportunities, Bio 4193 Experimental Ecology Lab, Professor Ellen Damschen, and more.

BIOrhythms May 2009: the first electronic version of this newsletter featuring a letter from Chair Kathy Miller, the HHMI grant program, articles on the Dixit Lab, Haswell Lab, Herzog Lab and Quatrano Lab, Safety Spotlight with Gerry Rohde on specialty cylinder wrenches and a microscopy update with Olga Pontes as well as grant awards, honors and announcements about department faculty and staff members, and the Spector and Stalker prize winners.

BIOrhythms April 2009: featuring helpful information about pre-med courses in the Biology department, student reviews of those courses, the Life Science Advising team, Dr. Greg Polites, Wash U's Career Center, Biology Club's PEMRAP Panel Lunch, summer jobs and more.

BIOrhythms January 2009: featuring the Molecular Biology and Biochemistry Track, Bio 437 DNA Manipulation Lab, Professor Bob Blankenship, Amy O'Brien of Science Outreach, SURF, Study Abroad Programs for Biology Majors, exchange student Scott Fabricant's Australian experience at UQ and the Biology Club's Professor Lunch with Dr. Alan Templeton.

BIOrhythms November 2008: featuring the Neuroscience Track, Bio 404 Neurophysiology Lab, Professor Bruce Carlson, Mike Dyer of the Jeanette Goldfarb Plant Growth Facility (the greenhouse) and the Biology Club's Professor Lunch with Dr. Erik Herzog.

BIOrhythms September 2008: introductory issue featuring Professor Joseph Jez, David Heyse of the NSLC, BIO 191 Phage Hunters, a letter from the Chair Kathryn Miller, Biology Club and CO-SIGN Neuroscience Club, Science Outreach and the Haswell Lab's research on Touch Perception in Plants.


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