Betsey Dexter Dyer
Professor of Biology
Office: 228 Science Center
Phone: 508 286 3951
Fax: 508 285 8278
Email: BDyer@WheatonMa.edu
Degrees
Ph.D., M.A., Boston University
A.B., Wheaton College
Research Interests
Symbiosis; termite symbionts; evolution of cells; field microbiology; genomics.
Teaching Interests
Introductory Biology
Cell Evolution
Genetics
Parasitology and Symbiosis
Invertebrate Evolution
Bacteriology
Other Interests
reading, cooking,dancing,playing basketball,thinking
Student Projects
I am part of the Genomics Research Group, working on regulatory sequences of the genomes of eukaryotes, with Mark LeBlanc, professor of Computer Science
Look at our website: http://genomics.wheatoncollege.edu
Contact us if you are interested in joining the group at any level. There are lots of projects for both biology and computer science majors.
Selected Publications, Creative Work or Performances
2008 Dyer "The Invisible World" (14 lectures plus booklet for Recorded Books Modern Scholar series)
2007 Dyer, Kahn,and LeBlanc "Classification and Regression Tree Analyses of genomic signatures reveal sets of tetramers that discriminate temperature optima of Archaea and Bacteria" Archaea 2:159-167
2007 LeBlanc and Dyer Perl for Exploring DNA Oxford University Press
2004 Dyer, LeBlanc, et al; "A DNA Motif Lexicon: Cataloging and Annotating Sequences" InSilico Biology 4:39
2003 Dyer A Field Guide to Bacteria, Cornell University Press
1998 Dyer "A hypothesis about the significance
of symbionts as a sorce of protein in the evolution
of eusociality in naked mole rats" Symbiosis 24:369
1997 Dyer in Explore the World Using Protozoa "The
termite as an ecological community"
1994 Dyer and Obar Tracing the History of Eukaryotic Cells
Columbia U Press