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Margaret Peeler '80 to Discuss Cell Fate in Sea Urchins
Margaret Peeler '80 to Discuss Cell Fate in Sea Urchins March 5 at Franklin & Marshall
Margaret Peeler '80, associate professor of biology at Susquehanna University, will discuss "Cell Fate in Sea Urchins" on Wednesday, March 5 at 4:30 p.m. in the Bonchek Lecture Hall, Barshinger Life Sciences and Philosophy Building. The talk is part of the Faculty Symposium Speaker Series in celebration of the opening of the Barshinger Llfe Sciences and Philosophy Building, and is sponsored by the Center for Liberal Arts and Society and the Biology Department. It is free and open to the public.
Peeler is interested in the general question of how genes regulate cell fate specification and morphogenesis during embryonic development. She is currently studying the role of an enzyme, jun N-terminal kinase or JNK, in activating the cell movements that are required to for the archenteron (larval gut) in the sea urchin embryo.
She earned her Ph.D. from Duke University in 1986 and has taught at Susquehanna since 1989.
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