2006 Prof. Walter Moore Lecture in Ecology                             

The Walter Moore Lectures in Ecology

 Professor Walter G. Moore served as a faculty member in the  Department of Biological Sciences for over 30 years, dedicating his professional career to helping Loyola undergraduates succeed in Biology. His love of ecology, especially of our local bayous, swamps, lakes and marshes, inspired many of his students.  An endowed fund has been established to support an annual Lecture in Ecology in his name.   This lecture series allows us to bring eminent ecologists to our campus to enrich the lives of our current students and to celebrate the memory of Dr. Moore's contributions to ecology at Loyola . For more information on the Moore Endowed Fund, click here.


About our Speaker

Dr. David J. Patterson is a Senior Scientist at the Josephine Bay Paul Center for Comparative Molecular Biology and Evolution at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts and is an internationally respected scholar on microbial biodiversity. He is an Emeritus Professor at the School of Biological Sciences, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia and also serves at the rank of Professor (MBL) in the Department of Ecological and Evolutionary Biology, Brown University, Providence, RI. Following his Ph.D. he began his career as a Lecturer and eventually as a Reader in Protozoology, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom.

For two centuries advancements in understanding the biodiversity of microbes accompanied technological developments. In the nineteenth century it was the production of high quality light microscopes, while later in the mid to late twentieth century it was electron microscopy. More recently molecular biology and its spin-offs, genomics and proteonomics, have provided new tools for understanding microbial biodiversity. During his career Dr. Patterson has embraced each new technology that has arrived while maintaining his keen interests in pursuing microbial diversity. He quickly understood the problems with accessing the rapidly developing information base on microbes for educators and researchers, as well as the potential information technology has for ameliorating these issues. Consequently, Dr. Patterson has set out to make this information accessible and understandable via his web-based bioinformatics resource, micro*scope.

  
Image from Microbial Life (Marine Biological Laboratory)




  Dr. David J. Patterson (Marine Biological Laboratory)

   
   Image from micro*scope (Marine Biological Laboratory)