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Thursday, December 02, 2004

Expert on regenerative biology to lecture December 7

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A biologist who has done research and taught in the fields of regenerative biology will be on campus at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, December 7 as featured speaker in the Community of Scholars series.

, dean emeritus of the School of Science and professor of biology at IUPUI in Indianapolis, will talk about his work on regeneration, particularly for studies on how undifferentiated cells self-organize to reproduce a new limb after amputation in salamanders. He is the author of nearly 100 publications and has given numerous national and international lectures on cell and developmental biology and regenerative biology. His lecture will be in Rm. 1101 in the Education Center.

Dr. Stocum said, “Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Shelly, in her first novel Frankenstein, made the name Frankenstein, the surgeon obsessed with the idea of creating life by reanimating a corpse cobbled together from body parts procured from ‘the unhallowed damps of the grave’, synonymous with the distrust and fear of biological knowledge that appears to violate religious, ethical, and cultural norms.

He added, “The history of medicine shows that as benefits of such knowledge are demonstrated, it changes from being perceived as evil to being perceived as good. In the lecture, I trace the medical legacy of Frankenstein from the 19th century to today, from the assembly of body parts into a monster, to cloning and the regeneration of new tissues and organs.”

Dr. Stocum is a graduate of Susquehanna University and earned the Ph.D. degree in biology from the University of Pennsylvania. From 1968 to 1990, Dr. Stocum was on the faculty of the School of Life Sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, before moving to IUPUI.

His lecture is free and open to the public.


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