Rick L. Hammer

Assistant Professor of Biology and Herbarium Curator
325-670-1390
HSU Box
Holland School of Sciences and Mathematics
Biology
rhammer@hsutx.edu

I have a passion for botany and the biological sciences in general and hope to convey this to my students at HSU and to encourage them to develop a lifelong passion for learning. My goal as a teacher is to help students achieve their goals not only here at HSU but beyond as they continue on to graduate studies, professional school, or directly into a career position. I look forward to interacting with students both as a teacher and as a person of faith and feel that HSU provides a wonderful environment for doing this.

 

 

Degrees Earned:

  • Bachelor's ~ B.B.A. ~ Accounting & Information Systems ~ University of Texas ~ Permian Basin ~ 1983
  • Master's ~ M.S. ~ Forest Science ~ Texas A&M University ~ 1993
  • Doctorate ~ Ph.D ~ Botany ~ Texas A&M University ~ 2010

Publications:

  • Hammer, R. L., S. L. Hatch, A. E. Pepper, and J. R. Manhart. 2010. A concordance between molecular and morphological evidence of hybridization in the Dichanthelium acuminatum (Poaceae: Paniceae) subspecies complex. The Southwestern Naturalist. In press.
  • Hammer, R.L. Flow cytometric measurement of nuclear DNA content in the Dichanthelium acuminatum complex (Poaceae). Poster presentation at the Botany 2005 Conference. August 2005, Austin, TX.
  • Bailey, M.J., Beremand, P.D., Hammer, R., Reidel, E., Thomas, T.L. and Cassone,V.M. 2004. Transcriptional profiling of circadian patterns of mRNA expression in the chick retina. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 279, 52247-52254.
  • 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.
  • Baker, R. J. et al. 1997. Natural science database: resource management and public health. Pp. 10-20 in Organization of Fish and Wildlife Information Managers 4th Annual Conference Proceedings. Key Largo, Florida.

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