SOLS Snippets 2006

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>> How do scientists and students think?
Anton E. Lawson
Professor, Organismal, Integrative and Systems Biology

>> How (and why) are memories made?
Brian Smith
Professor, Organismal, Integrative, and Systems Biology

>> How do neurons compute?
Sharon Crook
Assistant Professor, Organismal, Integrative and Systems Biology; Mathematics and Statistics

>> How do we recognize and describe similarity?
Michael S. Rosenberg
Assistant Professor, Genomics, Evolution and Bioinformatics

>> What makes a population viable?
Leah Gerber
Assistant Professor, Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Sciences

>> What plants and lichen tell us about air pollution?
Thomas Nash III
Professor, Curator of the Arizona State University Lichen Herbarium

>> What is Good Science and How do we Know?
Jane Maienschein
Regents’ Professor and Parents Association Professor. Director, Center for Biology and Society.

>> Are there unique ethical and legal issues with culturally distinct populations?
Joan McGregor
Director of the Bioethics, Policy and Law Program
Associate Professor, Center of Biology and Society; Philosophy.

>> Life in a changing Ocean
Susanne Neuer
Associate Professor, Ecology, Evolution and Evolutionary Sciences

>> How do butterflies and other insects see their world?
Ronald Rutowski
Professor, Organismal, Integrative, and Systems Biology

>> Communicating in color: the bright world of birds
Kevin McGraw
Assistant Professor, Organismal, Integrative, and Systems Biology

>> How to Attract a Frog Prince
Douglas Chandler
Professor, Cell and Molecular Biosciences

>> As the World Burns
Steve Pyne
Regents’ Professor, Human Dimensions of Biology

>> How Brain and the Immune System Interact
Steven Hoffman
Associate Professor, Human Dimensions of Biology

>>How to defend ourselves against anything and everything?
Yung Chang
Associate Professor

>> What is an organism anyway?
Manfred D Laubichler
Assistant Professor Human Dimensions of Biology, Centers for Biology and Society and Social Complexity and Dynamics

>>How does landscape pattern affect biodiversity and ecological processes?
Jianguo (Jingle) Wu
Professor, Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Science

>> Why do tarantula hawk wasps mate on mountaintops?
John Alcock
Regents’ professor, Organismal, Integrative & Systems Biology

>> Location, Location, Location…
Andrew T. Smith
Parents’ Association Professor, Human Dimensions of Biology;
Associate Director of Undergraduate Programs

>> How can Tiny Microbes in Plants Influence Big Communities?
Stan Faeth
Professor, Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Science

>> How making a science of innovation can revolutionize medicine.
Stephen Albert Johnston
Director, Center for Innovations in Medicine at ASU Biodesign Institute
Professor of Microbiology and Internal Medicinediagnostic

>> How do you build a backbone, and can understanding this help prevent spinal birth defects?
Kenro Kusumi
Associate Professor, Genomics, Evolution and Bioinformatics