Daniel G. Blackburn
Thomas S. Johnson Distinguished Professor
of Biology
Chair,
Department of
Biology
Life Sciences Center
Trinity College
Hartford, Connecticut 06106
USA
email:
daniel.blackburn at trincoll.edu
Research
Interests:
Evolution of viviparity; Placentation
and fetal nutrition in lizards and snakes;
History and demise of concepts of
biological “race”; Sexual dimorphism in anurans;
History of biology at Trinity College
Recent
publications and presentations
Publications
with Trinity students
All publications and presentations
Trinity
College's Electron Microscopy Facilities
For details about the facilities and how to use
them, click here.
A wide variety of courses in
five separate departments use the EM facilities:
Courses that use the
electron microscopes
Electron micrographs
taken by Trinity students
Trinity
College Courses
- Vertebrate Zoology
(Biol 315)
- Biological Electron
Microscopy (Biol 350)
Micrographs taken by Trinity students: 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001, 2000, 1999, 1998
- Principles of
Neuroscience: Neurobiology (Nesc 201)
- Neuroscience
Methodology (Nesc 301)
- Organisms and
Populations (Biol 152)
Undergraduate
Research
At
Trinity College, science students have excellent opportunities to conduct
original independent research in the laboratory and in the field, using
state-of-the-art equipment and working closely with faculty members who have
expertise in their respective disciplines.
Research
interests of Biology faculty
Student / faculty collaborative
publications in the
biological sciences and in chemistry
Recent
student research projects in my lab
- Morphology
of extraembryonic membranes in egg-laying corn snakes
- Placental
morphology in viviparous snakes and lizards
- Fate of
abortive eggs and embryos in pregnant lizards
- Oviduct structure and function in water snakes
- Endocrine effects on reproductive tissues in viviparous lizards
- Effects of
androgenic steroids on frog musculature
- Histochemical analysis
of skin gland secretions in frogs
Resultant publications & presentations with students
Links
to Professional Organizations
Society for
Integrative and Comparative Biology
International
Society of Vertebrate Morphology
American Society of Ichthyologists and
Herpetologists
Society for the Study of Amphibians
and Reptiles
N.E.U.R.O.N. (NorthEast Under/graduate Research Organization for
Neuroscience)
Mensa
International
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email: daniel.blackburn at
trincoll.edu
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