<p>My husband swears that there is no one doing respected published research and attending the major conferences in his field (cancer research now, before that research involving e coli and dictiostylium dischordium (may have spelled the latter wrong!) at any LAC.</p>
<p>I don’t know from slime mold but Jay Mellies has been doing ecoli research.</p>
<p>[Jay</a> Mellies | Research](<a href=“http://academic.reed.edu/biology/professors/jmellies/research.html]Jay”>Research - Jay Mellies - Reed College)
[Jay</a> Mellies | Students](<a href=“http://academic.reed.edu/biology/professors/jmellies/students.html]Jay”>Students - Jay Mellies - Reed College)</p>
<p>But I would be concerned about a dept with only two profs- my D attended a college that was smaller than her sister’s high school, but biology was the largest dept & still there were issues arising from size.</p>