Faculty Guide

Title

Associate Professor of Biology

Biology
Environmental Studies
Health: Science, Society, and Policy

Expertise

Evolution, genetics, and biology education

Awards and Honors

Letter of Commendation for Distinguished Teaching, Harvard Extension School (2013)

Louis Dembitz Brandeis Prize for Excellence in Teaching (2013)

National Academies Education Fellow in the Life Sciences (2012)

"Professor I Learned the Most From" Award, Senior Class, Brandeis University (2011)

Letter of Commendation for Distinguished Teaching, Harvard Extension School (2006)

Letter of Commendation for Distinguished Teaching, Harvard Extension School (2005)

Certificate of Distinction in Teaching, Harvard University (2004)

Certificate of Distinction in Teaching, Harvard University (2004)

Certificate of Distinction in Teaching, Harvard University (2003)

Courses Taught

BIOL	16a	Evolution and Biodiversity
BIOL	43b	Comparative Vertebrate Anatomy
BIOL	124b	Epigenetics
BIOL	155a	Project Laboratory in Genetics and Genomics
BISC	7a	The Biology and Culture of Deafness
EL	94a	Experiential Learning Practicum
FYS	41a	Darwin's "On the Origin of Species"

Scholarship

Morris, Hartl, Knoll, Lue, Berry, Biewener, Farrell, Holbrook, Pierce, Viel. Biology: How Life Works. W. H. Freeman and Company, 2013.

Hohl, Thompson, Shoshnev, Wu, Morris, Hsieh, Wu, Geyer. "Restoration of Topoisomerase 2 Function by Complementation of Defective Monomers in Drosophila." Genetics 192. (2012): 843-856.

Ou, Chang, Lee, So, Wu, and Morris. "Effects of Chromosomal Rearrangements on Transvection at the yellow Gene of Drosophila melanogaster." Genetics 183. (2009): 483-496.

Morris, Jehn, Vaughan, Pantages, Torello, Bucheli, Lohman, Lue. A Student's Guide to Writing in the Life Sciences. 2 ed. Cambridge: The President and Fellows of Harvard College, 2007.

Perlman and Morris. "What the IPCC said: A citizens' guide to the IPCC summary for policy makers." (2007): <http://www.islandpress.com/assets/library/37_whatipccsaidguide.pdf>.

Morris, Petrov, Lee, Wu. "Enhancer choice in cis and in trans in Drosophila melanogaster: Role of the promoter." Genetics 167. (2004): 1739-1747.

Wu and Morris. "Genes, genetics, and epigenetics: A correspondence." Science 293. (2001): 1103-1105.

Morris, Chen, Filandrinos, Dunn, Fisk, Geyer, and Wu. "An analysis of transvection at the yellow locus of Drosophila melanogaster." Genetics 151. (1999): 633-651.

Morris, Geyer, and Wu. "Core promoter elements can regulate transcription on a separate chromosome in trans." Genes & Dev 13. (1999): 253-258.

Wu and Morris. "Transvection and other homology effects." Curr. Opin. Genet. Dev. 9. (1999): 237-246.

Morris, Chen, Geyer, and Wu. "Two modes of transvection: Enhancer action in trans and bypass of a chromatin insulator in cis." Proc. Natl. Acad. Scie USA 95. (1998): 10740-10745.