BIOL 199 KS - Independent Study in Biology, Chemistry, Physics

The faculty and the areas in which they are particularly willing to direct independent study are as follows:

• J. Armstrong: Genetics, cell and molecular biology; chromatin dynamics and gene regulation in the fruit fly.
• K. Black: Organic chemistry; reaction mechanisms studied by computational techniques.
• S. Budischak: Disease ecology; host-parasite interactions; immunology; physiological ecology; co-infection and community ecology.
• P. Chandrangsu: Microbiolgy; molecular biology; biochemistry; microbial stress response.
• M. Coleman: Neurobiology, neurophysiology, neural basis of behavior, neural control of auditoryvocal learning in songbirds.
• G. Edwalds-Gilbert: Cell and molecular biology; pre-mRNA splicing in yeast.
• P. Ferree: Genetics, molecular biology, and early development of Drosophila (fruit flies) and Nasonia (jewel wasps); chromosome structure and evolution; host-pathogen interactions.
• F. Finseth: Genomics; evolutionary biology; genetics; selfish evolution, sexual selection, adaptation and speciation in Mimulus (monkeyflowers).
• A. Fucaloro: Physical chemistry, especially emission and absorption; molecular spectroscopy; electron impact.
• S. Gilman: Marine ecology; invertebrate biology; climate change ecology; biophysical ecology; population biology.
• S. Gould: Scanning probe microscopy; physics of sports.
• M. Hatcher-Skeers: Applications of nuclear resonance spectroscopy in determining the structure of DNA and other biological macromolecules.
• J. Higdon: Astrophysics; fluid dynamics; biophysics.
• A. Landsberg: Non-linear systems: pattern formation, bifurcation theory, chaos, Josephson Junctions.
• A. Leconte: Biochemical investigation of evolutionary intermediates.
• S. Marzen: Reinforcement learning, biophysics, rate-distortion theory, prediction.
• D. McFarlane: Evolutionary ecology; biogeography; late Quaternary paleoecology and extinctions.
• J. Monroy: Neural control and mechanics of animal movement; muscle physiology; comparative animal physiology.
• M. Preest: Physiology and ecology of animal energetics; thermal biology of terrestrial ectotherms; osmoregulatory physiology; herpetology; muscle physiology.
• K. Purvis-Roberts: Chemistry of urban air pollution, primarily aerosol; public policy aspects of air pollution.
• C. Robins: Applications of soil science research to challenges in geomorphology, plant ecology, and environmental science.
• B. Sanii: Experimental physical chemistry; self-assembly and bio-inspired folding of soft materials.
• L. Schmitz: Functional and evolutionary vertebrate morphology; paleobiology; evolution of vertebrate vision.
• J. Sheung:
• T. Solomon-Lane: Neural and developmental basis of behavior, neuroendocrinology, social behavior.
• Z. Tang: Cell and molecular biology, biochemistry; cell cycle control in yeast.
• D. Thomson: Conservation biology, population modeling, ecology of biological invasions, plant ecology and plant/pollinator interactions.
• E. Van Arnam: Natural products chemistry and chemical ecology; structure, function, and evolution of microbial metabolites.
• A. Wenzel: Catalysis, asymmetric synthetic methodology.
• E. Wiley: Molecular biology; genetics; chromatin structure in the ciliate Tetrahymena.
• B. Williams: Paleoceanographic reconstructions on recent timescales from marine climate archives.
• N. Williams: Fundamental late-metal organometallic chemistry, mechanisms of basic organometallic reactions.

Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.