2004 Spring Seminars
January 13:
“How plants split hairs: the genetics of trichome branching in Arabidopsis”
David G. Oppenheimer, Ph.D., Associate Professor,
Department of Botany, University of Florida
(PubMed Search), (UFGI New Faculty Profile)
January 20:
“Patterns of gene expression reveal a temporally orchestrated wound healing response in the injured rat spinal cord”
Margaret Jo Verlardo, Ph.D., Assistant Research Professor,
Department of Neuroscience, University of Florida
February 3:
“Statistical alignment of biological sequences”
Bjarne Knudsen, Ph.D., Post-doctoral Fellow,
Department of Zoology, University of Florida
February 12 [Note special day and location - Thursday, LG-101A (Brain Institute Auditorium)]:
“How can we make comparative method analyses within species?”
Joseph Felsenstein, Ph.D., Professor,
Department of Genome Sciences and Biology, University of Washington
(PubMed search), (National Academy Profile)
February 17:
“Developmental acquisition of resistance to cellular stress in bovine preimplantation embryos”
Peter J. Hansen, Ph.D., Professor,
Department of Animal Sciences & Program in Animal Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Florida
March 2:
“Genetics of plant development in the genomics era”
Donald R. McCarty, Ph.D., Professor,
Department of Horticultural Sciences & Program in Plant Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Florida
March 16:
“Epigenetic regulation of the HPRT locus”
Thomas P. Yang, Ph.D., Professor,
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Florida
March 30:
“Developmental genetics of the external genitalia: from evolutionary origins to congenital malformations”
Martin J. Cohn, Ph.D., Associate Professor,
Department of Zoology, University of Florida
April 6 [Note special location - LG-101A (Brain Institute Auditorium)]:
“Human cytomegalovirus triggers and then blocks an innate anti-viral response”
Thomas E. Shenk, Ph.D., James A. Elkins, Jr. Professor in the Life Scinces, and Chair, Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University
(PubMed search), (National Academy Profile)
April 13:
“Use of functional genomics in conjunction with bacterial model systems for the identification of human genes that underlie inherited disorders of B12 metabolism”
Thomas A. Bobik, Ph.D., Associate Research Professor,
Department of Pediatrics, University of Florida
April 23 [Note special time and location - 11:00 am-noon, LG-101A (Brain Institute Auditorium)]:
“Progress toward creation of a bacterium with a synthetic genome”
John Glass, Ph.D.,
Institute for Biological Energy Alternatives
Co-sponsored with the Department of Pathobiology
May 4:
“Interactions between Porphyromonas gingivalis and its human host”
Ann Progulske-Fox, Ph.D., Professor,
Department of Oral Biology, University of Florida