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The S. Meryl Rose Lectureship
7/19/08 - 9:00 AM - Speck Auditorium
"Animal Diversity: Evolutionary Developmental Biology"
Dr. Richard Behringer, University of Texas
Richard Behringer is currently the Ben F. Love Chair in Cancer Research at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. He received his Ph.D. in Biology at the University of South Carolina and then pursued postdoctoral training as a Howard Hughes Medical Institute fellow with Dr. Ralph Brinster in the School of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia and then with Dr. Richard Palmiter at the University of Washington in Seattle.
Dr. Behringer is one of the editors of the 3rd Edition of the Manipulating the Mouse Embryo: A Laboratory Manual and co-wrote with Dr. Virginia Papaioannou the book Mouse Phenotypes: A Handbook of Mutation Analysis both published by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press. He and Dr. Terry Magnuson share the editorship of the Wiley-Blackwell journal genesis:The Journal of Genetics and Development. The Behringer lab is particularly interested in the embryology of diverse mammals, including marsupials, bats, and cetaceans.
About the S. Meryl Rose Lectureship
The S. Meryl Rose Lectureship was established in honor of Dr. Rose’s distinguished career as a research scientist and his dedication to teaching. Dr. Rose conducted innovative zoological research with a major emphasis on the regeneration of limbs of amphibians. He received his MA from Amherst College in 1935 and his Ph.D. in Zoology from Columbia in 1940.
During his career, Dr. Rose held professorships at Smith, the University of Illinois, and Wesleyan. From 1961 until his retirement, he was Professor of Experimental Embryology and University Professor of Biology at Tulane University Medical School. Dr. Rose mentored 23 PhD candidates and one MD, encouraging all to develop and defend ideas even when they differed from his own. He authored and co-authored more than 50 published research papers, a number written in collaboration with his wife, Florence Rose, his long-time research co-worker and critic.
Dr. Rose spent many summers in Woods Hole doing research at the Marine Biological Laboratory. He was course director of the Marine Embryology course from 1950 to 1955 and served two terms as a member of the MBL’s Board of Trustees. Dr. Rose was an avid sailor who loved sailing his sloop, Mystic, in Vineyard Sound. He will long be remembered by his students, colleagues, and friends for his great wit, devotion to science, boundless imagination, and unending generosity.
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