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Interview with D. Elwyn Davies '51 by Krista Oldham
No full textInterview was conducted May 28, 2016 for Haverford College's 2016 Alumni Weekend Event: Sharing Our Stories: Voices from Haverford College, Scarlet Sages Series. Interviews took place in the Group Study Room in Magill Library, Haverford Colleg
Methods for in-vivo imaging and analyzing Caveolin movement in Ciona heart
No full textWe use tunicate heart founder cells as a model to study how signaling and receptor trafficking can specify cell fate. Tunicate heart founder cells divide asymmetrically passing Fibroblast Growth Factor Receptors (FGFRs) to only their ventral most daughter cells. FGF signaling then specifies the ventral daughters as heart progenitors. Previous work has shown that Caveolin and matrix adhesion are important for localizing FGFRs to the ventral daughters and specifying them as heart progenitors, but the process by which adhesion and Caveolin localizes FGFRs is unknown. To characterize this process, I developed a protocol for live imaging Caveolin and image analysis software to analyze its movement in dividing heart founder cells. A video of labeled Caveolin in heart founder cells reveals that Caveolin internalizes during mitosis and is recycled to the ventral membrane. This has implications for understanding stem cells specification and oncogenesis
Perspectives on Democracy and Diplomatic Relations: Iran and the United States
No full textWhat is the state of democracy in Iran? Although the 2016 US Presidential elections are occupying media and pundit analysis, equally significant electoral changes are occurring around the world. This week, we will be analyzing last month’s elections in Iran, and what they hold for the future of Iranian relations, both domestic and foreign. We will also revisit the Iran-US prisoner swap that occurred this past January.\ud
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War News Radio’s Ava Shafiei spoke to Shervin Malekzadeh, a visiting professor of political science at Swarthmore College. As an Iranian-American and frequent visitor to Iran, Malekzadeh provides us with commentary on the state of Iranian democracy and attitudes of the Iranian populace
Articles on Ramon Gutierrez
No full textAdvertisement for a lecture and roundtable with Professor Ramon Gutierrez (UCSD): 'Beyond Black and White: New Models for Race in the United States
1991 Latinos/as in Swarthmore: Abriendo Caminos/Paving the Way
No full textPlanning materials for the 1991 HOLA workshop 'Latinos/as in Swarthmore: Abriendo Caminos/Paving the Way
Molecular Neurobiology
No full textWelcome to Molecular Neurobiology! At some point, all of us have asked the questions “Why do we act the way we do?” or “How did they do that?” which both ultimately lead us to the “black box” of the nervous system. This course will give you the tools to start answering those questions by exploring \ud
the major molecular players and regulators controlling the development, form, function, and plasticity of the nervous system. We will approach neurobiology from an experimental stance, focusing on how the field has come to understand the way genes and molecules can control simple and \ud
complex behaviors through model organism studies and in humans
Advanced topics in Biology:Genetic Engineering and Food\ud Crops
No full textThe United Nations recently adopted Sustainable Development Goals, one of which is to ‘end hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition andpromote sustainable agriculture’ by 2030. This course will examine to what extent genetically engineered crops may serve as a tool to achieve these goals. The topics we will cover include the laboratory methods that are employed in genetic engineering, and then three of the objectives in engineering crops: 1. preventing yield loss due to pests and pathogens, 2. allowing crops to tolerate or adapt to climate change, and 3. improving nutrition
Bioinorganic Chemistry
No full textThis course will explore the inorganic chemistry behind the requirement of biological cells for metals such as zinc, iron, copper, manganese, and molybdenum. The course will begin with the principles of coordination chemistry and a survey of the abilities of various functional groups within proteins and nucleic acids to form coordination complexes with metal ions. The focus of this course (in 2016, as offered by Rob Scarrow) is reaction mechanisms of metalloenzymes and how these can be probed by spectroscopic methods and modeled by synthetic coordination compounds. This course counts toward both the inorganic requirement and toward the biochemistry concentration requirements