Rachel Fink
Associate Professor
rfink@mtholyoke.edu
413-538-2359
Office: Clapp 215
Personal Website

EDUCATION

B.A., Cornell University, 1978
Ph.D., Duke University, 1984

POSTDOCTORAL TRAINING

Department of Biology, Yale University; and Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole; with J.P. Trinkaus, 1984-1986

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Cytoskeletal dynamics in living fish embryos: How microfilament and microtubule behavior relates to cell rearrangements during embryogenesis

COURSES

Biology 200	How Organisms Develop	Spring
Biology 305	The Cellular and Molecular Basis of Development	Fall
Biology 321	Animal Cloning: Past, Present and Future	Spring

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Fink, R.D. 2002. Cloning, stem cells, and the current national debate: Incorporating ethics in a large introductory biology course. Cell Biology Education. 1: 132-144.

Fink, R.D. and P. Wadsworth. 2002. Actin dynamics in living Fundulus embryos. 4 sequences. In: Cooper, M.S. (Ed.). Zebrafish: The Living Laboratory. cd-rom. University of Washington, Seattle, WA.

Fink, R.D. and M.S. Cooper. 1996. Apical membrane turnover is accelerated near cell-cell contacts in an embryonic epithelium. Devel. Biol. 174:180-189.

Fink, R.D. (Ed.) 1995. CELLebration. The American Society for Cell Biology and Sinauer Associates, Inc. VIDEO, 36 min.

Fink, R.D. (Ed.). 1991. A Dozen Eggs: Time-lapse Microscopy of Normal Development. The Society for Developmental Biology and Sinauer Associates, Inc. Sunderland, MA. VIDEO, 43 min.

Last Modified: February 20, 2005