2013 Spring Seminars
Cancer/Genetics Research Complex, CGRC 101, Tuesdays 2:00 to 3:00 p.m.
No seminar first week of classes
January 22
Title: VAAST: a probabilistic disease-gene finder for personal genomes
Mark Yandell, PhD, Professor, Eccles Institute of Human Genetics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
January 29
Shelley Starck seminar has been cancelled.
February 12
Title: What are the relatives of chickens and turkeys? using next-gen sequencing to understand the evolution of galliform birds
Rebecca Kimball, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Biology, University of Florida
February 26
Title: Distant homology inference between proteins and its applications
Nick Grishin, PhD, Professor and Virginia Murchison Linthicum Scholar in Biomedical Research, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX
March 5
No seminar/ spring break
March 26
Title: Human induced pluripotent stem cell models of chromosome 15q imprinting disorders
Stormy Chamberlain, PhD, Assist. Professor, University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, CT
April 2
Title: Study design, bioinformatics and biostatistics challenges in microbiota studies
Volker Mai, MPH, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology, Emerging Pathogens Institute, University of Florida
April 9
Title: Translational research support and education: moving biotherapeutics into the clinic
Richard O. Snyder, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, University of Florida
April 16
Title: Computational analysis of genome-wide methylation with BISSCA
Alberto Riva, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, University of Florida
April 23
Title: Genomic approaches to studying RNA biology in Drosophila
Brent Graveley, PhD, Professor, Department of Genetics and Developmental Biology, University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, CT