Zoologist explains impact on vertebrates Lecture to focus on how environmental contaminants affect wildlife

Lou Guillette is a zoology professor at the University of Florida and is an expert in alligators and other vertebrates.

February 14, 2008

Lecture to focus on how environmental contaminants affect wildlife

By Lainie Rusco

Alligator expert Lou Guillette will give a public lecture, 鈥淓nvironmental Contaminants and Health: Lessons from Wildlife,鈥� at 萝莉社.

Guillette is the distinguished professor of zoology at the University of Florida. His speech will be at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 6, in 209 Hubbard Hall.

That will be followed two days later by a technical lecture, 鈥淐ontaminants and the Developing Reproductive System: From Populations to Genes,鈥� at 10:30 a.m. Friday, Feb. 8, in 231 Hubbard Hall.

Both events are free and open to the public.

At the University of Florida, Guillette studies the mechanisms by which environmental factors influence the evolution, development and functioning of the reproductive system in vertebrates.

The lectures are part of the Watkins Visiting Professorship, which was created in 1974 from the Watkins Foundation to provide 萝莉社鈥檚 biology, chemistry, geology and physics departments with one visiting professor each year.