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SUMMARY:Dixie Forum: A Window to the World
DESCRIPTION:Learn about the tiniest of organisms living among us when Dr. Alan R. Harker presents about his research on the microbes that inhabit the Great Salt Lake during Dixie State University's weekly lecture series "Dixie Forum: A Window on the World." \n\n\n\nHarker will present "Small and Simple Things That Rule the World.\n\n\n\nDuring Tuesday's presentation\, Harker will discuss how the strictly microbial nature of the Great Salt Lake's unique biosphere allows the exploration of basic fundamental ecological questions\, such as speciation\, competition\, dormancy and symbiosis. Harker posits that the metabolic potential available in the lake should yield both academic and applied discoveries that will rival any other environment thus far explored. \n\n\n\nThe associate academic vice president for research and graduate studies at Brigham Young University\, Harker has served 21 years on the faculty of the Department of Microbiology & Molecular Biology. He also has served as the department chair and associate dean of the College of Life Sciences. \n\n\n\nHarker earned a doctorate in biology at the University of Utah after receiving bachelor's degrees in chemistry and biology from the same institution. He completed his education as a postdoctoral fellow in the Nitrogen Fixation Laboratory at Oregon State University and a research associate with the Environmental Protection Agency in Corvallis\, Ore.\, where he worked on plasmid mediated horizontal gene transfer. \n\n\n\nBefore moving to BYU\, Harker was an assistant and associate professor at Oklahoma State University in the Department of Microbiology. There\, he worked on the degradation of environmental pollutants\, placing a particular emphasis on the genetic modification of organisms to facilitate the degradation of chlorinated solvents. \n\n\n\nDixie Forum is a weekly lecture series designed to introduce the St. George community and DSU students\, faculty and staff to diverse ideas and personalities while widening their worldviews via a 50-minute presentation. Dixie Forum will continue at noon on Tuesday\, Nov. 10\, in the Dunford Auditorium with a presentation from Bradford Lee Eden. He will present about J.R.R. Tolkien\, his life and his work. \n\n\n\nThe remainder of the spring Dixie Forum schedule is below. All forums will be at noon on Tuesdays in the Dunford Auditorium of the Browning Resource Center on the DSU campus. \n\n\n\nTuesday\, November 10 from 12:00 p.m. - 12:50 p.m. Speaker(s): Bradford Lee Eden Topic: Tolkien\n\nTuesday\, November 17 from 12:00 p.m. - 12:50 p.m. Speaker(s): No Forum Topic: No Forum\n\nTuesday\, November 24 from 12:00 p.m. - 12:50 p.m. Speaker(s): No Forum (Thanksgiving) Topic: No Forum (Thanksgiving)\n\nTuesday\, December 1 from 12:00 p.m. - 12:50 p.m. Speaker(s): Eric Thacker Topic: TBA\n\nTuesday\, December 8 from 12:00 p.m. - 12:50 p.m. Speaker(s): Frederick Crook Topic: The China Dream: An Interpretation of Contemporary Wall Posters\n\nTuesday\, December 15 from 12:00 p.m. - 12:50 p.m. Speaker(s): No Forum (Finals week) Topic: No Forum (Finals week)
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<p><span style="color:#000000\;"><span style="font-size:14px\;"><span style="font-family:arial\;"><span style="line-height: normal\;">Learn about the tiniest of organisms living among us when Dr. Alan R. Harker presents about his research on the microbes that inhabit the Great Salt Lake during Dixie State University&#39\;s weekly lecture series &quot\;Dixie Forum: A Window on the World.&quot\;&nbsp\;</span><br style="font-family: Tahoma\, Geneva\, sans-serif\; color: rgb(0\, 0\, 0)\; font-size: 12px\; line-height: normal\;" />\n<br style="font-family: Tahoma\, Geneva\, sans-serif\; color: rgb(0\, 0\, 0)\; font-size: 12px\; line-height: normal\;" />\n<span style="line-height: normal\;">Harker will present &quot\;Small and Simple Things That Rule the World.</span><br style="font-family: Tahoma\, Geneva\, sans-serif\; color: rgb(0\, 0\, 0)\; font-size: 12px\; line-height: normal\;" />\n<br style="font-family: Tahoma\, Geneva\, sans-serif\; color: rgb(0\, 0\, 0)\; font-size: 12px\; line-height: normal\;" />\n<span style="line-height: normal\;">During Tuesday&#39\;s presentation\, Harker will discuss how the strictly microbial nature of the Great Salt Lake&#39\;s unique biosphere allows the exploration of basic fundamental ecological questions\, such as speciation\, competition\, dormancy and symbiosis. Harker posits that the metabolic potential available in the lake should yield both academic and applied discoveries that will rival any other environment thus far explored.&nbsp\;</span><br style="font-family: Tahoma\, Geneva\, sans-serif\; color: rgb(0\, 0\, 0)\; font-size: 12px\; line-height: normal\;" />\n<br style="font-family: Tahoma\, Geneva\, sans-serif\; color: rgb(0\, 0\, 0)\; font-size: 12px\; line-height: normal\;" />\n<span style="line-height: normal\;">The associate academic vice president for research and graduate studies at Brigham Young University\, Harker has served 21 years on the faculty of the Department of Microbiology &amp\; Molecular Biology. He also has served as the department chair and associate dean of the College of Life Sciences.&nbsp\;</span><br style="font-family: Tahoma\, Geneva\, sans-serif\; color: rgb(0\, 0\, 0)\; font-size: 12px\; line-height: normal\;" />\n<br style="font-family: Tahoma\, Geneva\, sans-serif\; color: rgb(0\, 0\, 0)\; font-size: 12px\; line-height: normal\;" />\n<span style="line-height: normal\;">Harker earned a doctorate in biology at the University of Utah after receiving bachelor&#39\;s degrees in chemistry and biology from the same institution. He completed his education as a postdoctoral fellow in the Nitrogen Fixation Laboratory at Oregon State University and a research associate with the Environmental Protection Agency in Corvallis\, Ore.\, where he worked on plasmid mediated horizontal gene transfer.&nbsp\;</span><br style="font-family: Tahoma\, Geneva\, sans-serif\; color: rgb(0\, 0\, 0)\; font-size: 12px\; line-height: normal\;" />\n<br style="font-family: Tahoma\, Geneva\, sans-serif\; color: rgb(0\, 0\, 0)\; font-size: 12px\; line-height: normal\;" />\n<span style="line-height: normal\;">Before moving to BYU\, Harker was an assistant and associate professor at Oklahoma State University in the Department of Microbiology. There\, he worked on the degradation of environmental pollutants\, placing a particular emphasis on the genetic modification of organisms to facilitate the degradation of chlorinated solvents.&nbsp\;</span><br style="font-family: Tahoma\, Geneva\, sans-serif\; color: rgb(0\, 0\, 0)\; font-size: 12px\; line-height: normal\;" />\n<br />\n<span style="line-height: normal\;">Dixie Forum is a weekly lecture series designed to introduce the St. George community and DSU students\, faculty and staff to diverse ideas and personalities while widening their worldviews via a 50-minute presentation. Dixie Forum will continue at noon on Tuesday\, Nov. 10\, in the Dunford Auditorium with a presentation from Bradford Lee Eden. He will present about J.R.R. Tolkien\, his life and his work.&nbsp\;</span><br />\n<br />\nThe remainder of the spring Dixie Forum schedule is below. All forums will be at&nbsp\;<span data-term="goog_1932431726" style="border-bottom-width:1px\;border-bottom-style:dashed\;position:relative\;top:-2px\;z-index:0\;" tabindex="0"><span style="position:relative\;top:2px\;z-index:-1\;">noon</span></span>&nbsp\;on Tuesdays in the Dunford Auditorium of the Browning Resource Center on the DSU campus.&nbsp\;<br />\n<br />\nTuesday\, November 10 from 12:00 p.m. - 12:50 p.m. Speaker(s): Bradford Lee Eden Topic: Tolkien<br />\nTuesday\, November 17 from 12:00 p.m. - 12:50 p.m. Speaker(s): No Forum Topic: No Forum<br />\nTuesday\, November 24 from 12:00 p.m. - 12:50 p.m. Speaker(s): No Forum (Thanksgiving) Topic: No Forum (Thanksgiving)<br />\nTuesday\, December 1 from 12:00 p.m. - 12:50 p.m. Speaker(s): Eric Thacker Topic: TBA<br />\nTuesday\, December 8 from 12:00 p.m. - 12:50 p.m. Speaker(s): Frederick Crook Topic: The China Dream: An Interpretation of Contemporary Wall Posters<br />\nTuesday\, December 15 from 12:00 p.m. - 12:50 p.m. Speaker(s): No Forum (Finals week) Topic: No Forum (Finals week)</span></span></span></p>\n
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