2004 Fall Seminars

August 31:

“Using evolutionary models to reconstruct and deconstruct the last universal common ancestor of life”

Edward L. Braun, Ph.D., Assistant Professor,

Department of Zoology, University of Florida

(

Pubmed Search ), (UFGI New Faculty Profile)

 

September 21:

“Three-dimensional structure to function correlations for adeno-associated viruses”

Mavis Agbandje-McKenna, Ph.D., Assistant Professor,

Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Florida

(PubMed search)

 

September 28:

“Genetics and the conservation of Florida Ziziphus

Matthew A. Gitzendanner, Ph.D., Assistant Scientist,

Department of Botany & the Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida

(PubMed search ), (UFGI New Faculty Profile)

 

October 5:

“Enabling genomics – postcards from the ground floor”

William G. Farmerie, Ph.D., Scientific Director,

Interdisciplinary Center for Biotechnology Research, University of Florida

(PubMed search)

 

October 12 [Note special time and location - Noon, LG-101A (Brain Institute Auditorium)]:

“Multiprotein complexes conduct multiple coordinated steps in trypanosome RNA editing”

Kenneth D. Stuart, Ph.D., Director and President,

Seattle Biomedical Research Institute,

and Professor, Department of Pathobiology, University of Washington

(PubMed search)

Co-sponsored with the Department of Pathobiology

 

October 12-13:

Workshop – “Meeting the information requirements of the Animal Welfare Act”

Lecture 8:30 am – noon either day, Room C3-72. Hands-on database workshops 1:00 – 4:00 pm either day, Room C2-20

Co-sponsored with the University of Florida’s Office of Research, Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee and the Health Science Center Libraries

(AWIC Workshop)

 

October 19:

“Functional genomics of the plant cell wall”

Karen E. Koch, Ph.D., Professor,

Department of Horticultural Sciences & Program in Plant Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Florida

(PubMed search)

 

October 26 [Note special time and location - Noon, LG-101A (Brain Institute Auditorium)]:

“Viruses and the immune system: who is the pupil and who is the teacher?”

Grant McFadden, Ph.D., Professor,

Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Western Ontario

and Co-director, Biotherapeutics and Immunopathogenesis Group, John P. Robarts Research Institute

(PubMed search)

 

November 2:

“Gene and cell-based treatments for arthritis”

Steven C. Ghivizzani, Ph.D., Associate Professor,

Department of Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation, University of Florida

(PubMed search), (UFGI New Faculty Profile)

 

November 16:

“Culture conditions alter reprogramming of nuclei utilized in bovine somatic cell nuclear transfer”

Karen Moore, Ph.D., Assistant Professor,

Department of Animal Sciences, University of Florida

(PubMed search)

 

November 30:

Beauveria bassiana versus ticks (Acari:Ixodidae): molecular mechanisms of fungal-arthropod pathogenesis”

Nemat O. Keyhani, Ph.D., Assistant Professor,

Department of Microbiology and Cell Science, University of Florida

(PubMed search)

 

December 9-10:

“National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) Field Guide Workshop”

Co-sponsored with the Health Science Center Libraries

(Field Guide Workshop)

 

December 14:

“Patterning of the vertebrate embryo”

Brian D. Harfe, Ph.D, Assistant Professor,

Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, University of Florida

(PubMed search), (UFGI New Faculty Profile)