University of New England

Lawrence M. Fritz, Ph.D.

Director, Professional Master's Program &
Professor of Biological Sciences
(207) 602-2317
lfritz@une.edu

Website

Education

B.S. - Biology, 1975
          State University of New York, Stony Brook

M.S. - Botany / Plant Physiology, 1982
           Rutgers University

Ph.D. - Botany / Plant Physiology, 1986
            Rutgers University

Post-Doc - Cellular / Molecular Biology
                  Harvard University

Courses

BIO100   Biology I

BIO101   Biology II

BIO310   Phycology

BIO370   Cell / Molecular Biology

BIO343   Biological Rhythms

Electron Microscopy

Grant Writing

Nanotechnology

Research Interests

Cell biology of marine algae including aspects of bioluminescence, circadian rhythms and toxin production 
    
Methods in microscopy, including light, fluorescence, confocal and electron microscopy 
    
Nanotechnology in undergraduate education 
    
Combining nanotechnology and cell biology

Selected Publications

Seo K, Fritz L (2006) Karyology of a marine non-motile dinoflagellate, Pyrocystis lunula, Hydrobiologia 563: 289-296.

Shin W, Fritz L (2003) Endonuclear bacteria in Euglena hemichromata (Euglenophyceae): a proposed pathway to endonucleobiosis, Phycologia 42: 198-203.  
    
Seo K, Fritz L (2002) Ultrastructure of vegetative cysts of Pyrocystis with special reference to PAS bodies and trichocysts, Phycologia 41: 10-14.  
    
Seo K, Fritz L (2001) Evidence for sexual reproduction in the marine dinoflagellates, Pyrocystis notliuca and Pyrocystis lunula, Journal of Phycology 37: 1-6  
    
Nassoury N, Fritz L, Morse D (2001) Circadian changes in RuBisCo distribution inside chloroplasts can account for the rhythm in dinoflagellate carbon fixation, The Plant Cell 13: 923-934.  
    
Seo K, Fritz L (2000) Cell morphology correlates with vertical migration in the non-motile marine dinoflagellate, Pyrocystis noctiluca, Marine Biology 137: 589-594.