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- Schedule with office hrs
- e-mail: hoops@geneseo.edu
- Courses taught:
- Fall, 2008
- Freshman Biology (Biol. 117; Note materials from this course will be posted in "my courses")
- Spring, 2008:
- Freshman Biology (Biol. 117; Note materials from this course will be posted in "my courses")
Research interests:
- Structure and function of the green algal flagellar apparatus .
- Evolution of the organismal state
- Evolutionaty relationships of motile green algae
- The structural basis of simple behaviors
- Molecular motors in yeast mitosis
Selected publications (student co-authors in bold):
- Hoops, H.J. I. Nishii and D.L. Kirk. 2005. Cytoplasmic bridges in Volvox and its relatives. In F. Baluska, F.D. Volkmann and P.W. Barlow eds., Cell-Cell channels. Eureka, Georgetown, TX, pp1-20. ISBN 1-58706-065-5.
- Hoops, H.J. A.E Cocina, D.S. Binder and A. Widjaja. 2002. Acetate is a chemoattractant for the colonail green alga Asterphomene
gubernaculifera (Chlorophyceae). J. Phycol. 38. 1099-1105.
- Hoops, H.J., M. Brighton, S. Stickles and P.R. Clement. 1999. A
test of two possible mechanisms for phototactic steering in Volvox carteri (Chlorophyceae). J. Phycol. 35:539-547.
- Hoops, H.J. 1997. Motility in the colonial and multicellular Volvocales:
structure, function and evolution. Protoplasma 199:99-112.
- Hoops, H.J. 1995. Fixation and thin-sectioning of flagella.
In W. Dentler and G.B. Witman (eds.) Methods in Cell Biology:
Cilia and Eukaryotic Flagella. 47:193-197.
- Hoops, H.J., J.J. Long, and E.H. Hile. 1994. Flagellar
apparatus structure is similar but not identical in Volvulina steinii,
Eudorina elegans, and Pleodorina illinoisensis: implications for
the volvocine evolutionary lineage. J. Phycol. 30:679-689.
- Prasad, A.V., M.W. Miller. C Cox, E.L. Carstensen, H.J. Hoops and A.A.
Brayman. 1994. A test of the influence of cyclotron resonance exposures on
diatom motility. Health Physics 66: 305-312.
- Hoops, H.J. 1993. Flagellar, Cellular and organismal polarity in Volvox
cateri. J. Cell Sci. 104: 105-117.
A list of biology and college honors students are here:
A list of student researchers from my lab who have won awards are here:
A complete C.V. is here:
A movie of the chemoresponse in Asterphomene gubernaculifera is
here: (Note: this is an 8 meg file.)
Other interests:
- Woodworking (recent project a 20 foot sea kayak)
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Swimming, racquetball, bicycling
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Science Fiction (favorite author David Brin)
- Green Bay Packers (I am a very minor owner! [1 diluted share of stock])
Harold Hoops
