Virginia Weis

Professor
Department of Zoology
3029 Cordley Hall
Oregon State University
Corvallis, OR 97331
ph: 541-737-4359
email: weisv@science.oregonstate.edu

Background

BS, Yale University, 1984

PhD, University of California at Los Angeles, 1990 with Len Muscatine

Postdoc, University of Southern California, 1991-1993 with Margaret McFall-Ngai

Postdoc, Hopkins Marine Station, Stanford University, 1993-1996 with Paul Levine

 

 

Teaching Interests

I participate in a variety of courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels at OSU. I teach the animal form and function portion of the BI21X series, the introductory biology course in the Biology Program. I teach BI358, Symbioses and the Environment, a course that offers an in-depth treatment of a variety of important mutualistic symbioses. I teach Z361/362, Invertebrate Biology, a lecture and lab course that covers the broad spectrum of invertebrate diversity. I also participate in teaching BI450, Marine Biology, an in-depth 16 credit course that takes place at Hatfield Marine Science Center. I offer periodic graduate seminars on a range of topics. Topics of past seminars have included, Biology of deep sea hydrothermal vent ecosystems, Ecophysiology of marine invertebrate larvae and mutualistic symbioses.

I am a member of OSU's Center for Genome Research and Biocomputing and the Molecular and Cellular Biology Program.