September 22, 1994: Vol26n3: Birds Over Everest to be topic of Rahn Memorial Lecture

Peter Scheid, an expert in the field of comparative respiratory
physiology, will present the fourth Hermann Rahn Memorial Lecture
Sept. 27 at 4 p.m. in Butler Auditorium in Farber Hall on the South
Campus. The lecture is free and open to the public.
	Scheid is professor and chair of the Department of Physiology
at Ruhr University Bochum, in Bochum, Germany, where he also serves as
vice president.
	He is renowned in his field for his quantitative experiments
and mathematical models of gas exchange in insects, amphibians, fish,
mammals and birds. In his lecture, "Birds Over Everest: Extreme
Hypoxia Tolerance," Scheid will discuss the ability of these creatures
to thrive and exercise in a low-oxygen environment.
	Scheid holds a doctoral degree in experimental physics from
the University of Zurich, and a medical degree from Georg August
University in Gottingen, Germany. He came to Buffalo in 1971 to work
with Nobel laureate Sir John Eccles in neurobiology, and spent two
years at UB as research associate professor of physiology.
	Returning to Germany in 1973, he joined the Max Planck
Institute for Experimental Medicine in Gottingen and moved to Ruhr
University in 1982.
	Scheid is a member of the International Union of Physiological
Sciences Commission on Respiratory Physiology and serves as vice
president of the European Society for Comparative Physiology and
Biochemistry. He is editor of Respiration Physiology, one of the
preeminent journals in the field.
	The Hermann Rahn Memorial Lecture is sponsored by the
Physiology Department of the UB School of Medicine and Biomedical
Sciences. It honors the former chair of the department, a
distinguished professor of physiology, whose pioneering research in
environmental physiology helped provide the foundation for today's
aerospace and undersea medicine.