Associate Director of Great Salt Lake Institute
email: bavery AT westminstercollege.edu
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Associate Professor of Biology and
Associate Director of Great Salt Lake Institute email: bavery AT westminstercollege.edu |
Classes
Fall 2009
Biology 105 - Principles of Biology I
Biology 304 - Developmental Biology
May 2009
The Chemistry and Biology of Brewing this year we will be using...
Beer:Tap Into the Art and Science of Brewing by Charles Bamforth as the text for class.
Spring 2009
Biology 105 - Principles of Biology I
Advanced Topics in Neuroscience
Senior Seminar
Fall 2008
Biology 105 - Principles of Biology I
Biology 403 - Neuroscience
Senior Seminar
Research
Since coming to Westminster I have begun to work with a group of undergraduate research students to study the the brine shrimp Artemia that live in Great Salt Lake (GSL).
Artemia is the only animal that spends its entire life in the lake are an important food source for migrating birds. Encysted brine shrimp embryos are harvested from GSL and shipped around the world for use as food in aquaculture.
Our major focus is to better understand the genes and genome of Artemia: specifically what changes in gene expression occur during different stages of the unusual life cycle of Artemia and which genes are involved in the response of the brine shrimp to environmental stress.
In collaboration with other Westminster faculty, I am working with several students to examine gene expression changes in Artemia after treatment with selenium and other stressors, and we have used molecular techniques to characterize microbes found in association with the brine shrimp.
I am also interested in signaling networks and complex systems in development as well as the evolution of developmental mechanisms.
checkout my Artemia page
Links
Biology Great Salt Lake Institute Library Journal ILL WebAdvisor Angel email
Genetic Science Learning Center (U of Utah)
GSL Ecology Microarray Pharmacogenomics Stem Cells Cloning
Summer UG Research Programs Neuroscience Graduate Programs McNair Program
Biology Workbench - best comprehensive set of free webtools around, from the San Diego Supercomputer Center
Bioinformatics.org - SeWer Sequence Extractor Savvy
Online Journals accessible from Westminster
NEB - NEB Cutter NEB Technical Reference Page
Alternative Transportation Info
Great Salt Lake from Black Rock