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Destiny is not a matter of chance
it is a matter of choice,
it is not a thing to be waited for,
but something to be achieved.
William Jennings Bryan
If it dies, it's biology, if it blows up, it's chemistry,
if it doesn't work, it's physics.
John Wilkes (as quoted from graffiti on a bathroom wall)
K. Beth Beason, Ph.D.
I came to Rice in 1998 as a Postdoctoral Teaching Associate in the Department of Biochemistry & Cell Biology. I am now a Lecturer & Laboratory Coordinator for BCB.
In addition to my laboratory courses, I also teach courses in General Laboratory Safety and Radioactive Isotope Safety to the Departments of Biochemistry & Cell Biology, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, and Bioengineering.
And, I am an associate at Brown College.
My teaching labs are located in the basement of Anderson Biology. Rice students affectionately call it....The Dungeon:
Through Me the Way into the Woeful City,
Through Me the Way to the Eternal Pain,
Through Me the Way Among the Lost People.
Justice Moved My Maker on High,
Divine Power Made Me and Supreme Wisdom and Primal Love;
Before Me Nothing was Created but Eternal Things and I Endure Eternally.
ABANDON EVERY HOPE, YE THAT ENTER.
-Dante's Inferno (Inscription on the Gate of Hell, Canto III; translated by John D. Sinclair, London, John Lane The
Bodley Head, 1939)
Course Web Pages
Education
- Auburn University: I received my B.S. in Microbiology (summa cum laude) in 1990.
WAR DAMN EAGLE and GO TIGERS!!
- University of Alabama at Birmingham: I received my Ph.D. in Physiology & Biophysics in 1996.
Dissertation: "Transcriptional Regulation of the Rat Angiotensin II Type 1A Receptor"
- Vanderbilt University: I was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in The Research Training Program in Hypertension (NIH), Division of Cardiology, from 1996-1998; I worked with Joey V. Barnett, Ph.D. and studied the role of Transforming Growth Factor b Receptors in heart development.
Professional Activities
Selected Publications & Presentations
- Brewster, Jay L., Beason, K. Beth, Eckdahl, Todd, and Evans, Irene M. (Manuscript in preparation, 2003) The Microarray Revolution: Perspectives from Educators, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education.
- Beason, K. Beth, Caprette, David, and Rudolph, Frederick B. Teaching communication skills in a laboratory course, Experimental Biology 2003, San Diego, CA.
- Beason, K. Beth, Rudolph, Frederick B., and Caprette, David. Coordinating laboratory courses across a science and engineering curriculum, Experimental Biology 2003, San Diego, CA.
Fun Stuff
Created by B. Beason (bbeason@rice.edu), Rice University, 2 April 2003/Updated 15 August 2006
