Vitae

Rick L. Hammer

Department of Biology

Texas A&M University

College Station, TX 77843-3258

Phone: (979) 845-4308

Fax: (979) 862-1977

rhammer@bio.tamu.edu

Graduate Student in Botany, Texas A&M University

Academic Degrees

PhD (in progress) Texas A&M University 2001 – Botany

MS Texas A&M University 1993 Forest Science

Relevant Educational Experience

5-02 to present. Graduate Assistant Non-Teaching. Laboratory for Functional Genomics in the Department of Biology, Texas A&M University. Responsible for bioinformatics support and consulting for various research projects. Perl programming, website creation and maintenance, system administration for four Dell PowerEdge servers running RedHat Linux.

1-02 to 5-02. Teaching Assistant- Texas A&M University, Taxonomy of Flowering Plants. Taught two laboratory sections of plant taxonomy (Botany 301).

8-01 to 12-01. Teaching Assistant- Texas A&M University, Introductory Biology Program. Taught two laboratory sections of introductory biology (Biology 123) as instructor of record. Designed, administered, and graded exams and tests.

Professional Affiliations

American Society of Plant Taxonomists

Botanical Society of America

Publications

Bailey, M.J., P. D. Beremand, R. Hammer, D. Bell-Pedersen, T. L. Thomas, and V. M. Cassone. 2003. Transcriptional Profiling of the Chick Pineal Gland, a Photoreceptive Circadian Oscillator and Pacemaker. Molecular Endocrinology 17:2084-2095.

Relevant Coursework

Field Systematic Botany, Range Grasses and Grasslands, Plant Taxonomy, Plant and Range Ecology, Molecular Genetics, Genetics, Population Genetics, Quantitative Phylogenetics

Skills

Technical: Microsoft Word, Excel (especially as a tool to visualize and manipulate data either from or on its way to a database), Perl scripting for Windows. Comfortable with UNIX command-prompt, Perl scripting for administrative utilities and database access. Experience in Sun Solaris server and network administration. Some experience in C, HTML, and CGI development.