Margaret Stevens

  Peggy Stevens

 

Education

  • 1967 B.A., Macalester College, St. Paul, Minn., (biology)
  • 1972 M.A., Stanford University, Stanford, Calif., (biological sciences)
  • 1972 Ph.D., Stanford University, Stanford, Calif., (biological sciences; major area: developmental and cell biology)

 

Current Courses Taught

  •  Biology 121 – Introductory Biology Laboratory Sections

 

 

 

Recent Publications and Presentations

  • A. Felix, M.E. Stevens and R.L. Wallace, R.L. 1995. “Unpalatability of a colonial rotifer, Sinantherina socialis, to small zooplanktivorous fishes,” Invertebrate Biology 114, 139-144, 1995
  • Margaret E. Stevens, Jatinder Dhillon*, Chase A. Miller, Cynthia Messier-Solek, Audrey J. Majeske, Dustin Zuelke*, Jonathan P. Rast, L. Courtney Smith. 2010. SpTie1/2 is expressed in coelomocytes, axial organ and embryos of the sea urchin Strongylocentrotus purpuratus, and is an orthologue of vertebrate Tie1 and Tie2. Developmental and Comparative Immunology 34: 884–895.

* denotes Ripon College student researchers/co-authors

 

 

 

Areas of Interest

  • Sea urchin development
  • Immunology of echinoderms
  • Ultrastructure of sea urchin reproductive tissues
  • Molecular analysis of evolutionary relationships
  • Cytoskeleton of erythrocytes of amphibia
  • Genetic diseases of dogs