2005 Fall Seminars
August 30:
“RNA-mediated disease”
Maurice S. Swanson, Ph.D., Professor,
Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, University of Florida
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September 1 [Note special day, time and location - Thursday, 4:00 pm, LG-101A (Brain Institute Auditorium)]:
“Bioinformatics tools for human genetics”
Alberto Riva, Ph.D., Research Associate, Informatics Program, Children’s Hospital,
and Instructor, Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
September 13:
“Comparative mutational biology of self-fertile Rhabditid nematodes”
Charles F. Baer, Ph.D., Assistant Professor,
Department of Zoology, University of Florida
September 27:
“Linking gene and function by comparative genomics: the tRNA modification goldmine”
Valerie de Crecy-Lagard, Ph.D., Assistant Professor,
Department of Microbiology and Cell Science, University of Florida
October 4 [Note special time and location - noon, LG-101A (Brain Institute Auditorium)]:
“Regulation of genomic rearrangement in the developing immune system”
Stephen Desiderio, Ph.D., Professor,
Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Johns Hopkins University
October 10 [Note special day, time and location - Monday, 1:00 pm, R3-265]:
“Gene compositional biases and gene finding in herpesvirus and prokaryotic genomes”
Luciano Brocchieri, Ph.D., Senior Research Scientist,
Department of Mathematics, Stanford University
October 11:
“Fast and accurate methods for analysis of biosequences”
Tamer Kahveci, Ph.D., Assistant Professor,
Department of Computer and Information Science and Engineering, University of Florida
October 25:
“Genome-wide mapping of in vivo transcription factor loci in Arabidopsis”
Maria Gallo, Ph.D., Associate Professor,
Department of Agronomy & Program in Plant Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Florida
November 8:
“Utilization of mRNA and protein biomarkers to understand mechanisms of toxicity in wildlife”
Nancy D. Denslow, Ph.D., Associate Professor,
Department of Physiological Sciences & Center for Environmental and Human Toxicology, University of Florida
November 15:
“Chromatin insulators and nuclear organization”
Victor G. Corces, Ph.D., Professor,
Department of Biology, Johns Hopkins University
November 22:
“Origins of marine megadiversity: spatio-temporal dynamics of speciation on coral reefs”
Gustav Paulay, Ph.D., Curator,
Marine Malacology, Florida Museum of Natural History
November 30-December 1 [Note daylong schedule, location - J. Wayne Reitz Union, registration required]:
“Florida Genetics 2005 (FG2005)”
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Co-sponsored with the Center for Mammalian Genetics, Plant Molecular and Cellular Biology Program, and Health Science Center Libraries
December 6:
“Genetic models for human vascular diseases”
S. Paul Oh, Ph.D., Associate Professor,
Department of Physiology and Functional Genomics, University of Florida
December 8-9 {Note – registration required]:
“National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) Field Guide Workshop”
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Co-sponsored with the Health Science Center Libraries
December 13 [Note special time and location - 3:00 pm, LG-101A (Brain Institute Auditorium)]:
“A comparison of Bayesian and likelihood estimation of population genetic parameters”
Peter Beerli, Ph.D., Assistant Professor,
Computational Evolutionary Biology Group, School of Computational Science, & Department of Biological Sciences, Florida State University