MONMOUTH, Ill. — University of Illinois faculty member Peter Jones will present the annual Donald B. McMullen Memorial Lecture in Biology at Monmouth College on March 25 at 11 a.m. in the Dahl Chapel and Auditorium.

Entitled "Insights from a Muscular Dystrophy Model Frog," the lecture is free and open to the public. Jones will also present a lecture for biology students entitled "Mechanisms of FSHD Pathology" at 4 p.m. in the Room 423 of the Haldeman-Thiessen Science Center. Persons interested in attending the afternoon lecture are asked to call the biology department at 309-457-2361 to ensure seating.

Jones is an assistant professor of cell and development biology at the University of Illinois School of Molecular and Cellular Biology. He earned his bachelor’s degree in microbiology at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, and received his Ph.D. in genetics and molecular biology from Emory University. Jones also received a post-doctoral degree from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development in Bethesda, Md.

The McMullen Lectureship in Biology was endowed in 1973 by Mrs. Donald McMullen of Silver Springs, Md., in memory of her husband, who was a biology professor at Monmouth College from 1928 to 1938. The fund was established to assist the college in bringing to campus outstanding scholars in the biological sciences.