2006 Spring Seminars
January 24 [Note special time and location - noon, LG-101A (Brain Institute Auditorium)]:
“What makes a eukaryote a eukaryote? On the origin of mitochondria and the nucleus”
William F. Martin, Ph.D., Professor
Institute of Botany, Heinrich-Heine University, Dusseldorf
January 31:
“Avian phylogenomics”
Rebecca T. Kimball, Ph.D., Assistant Professor,
Department of Zoology, University of Florida
February 14:
“Functional genomics and the biology of trauma”
Lyle L. Moldawer, Ph.D., Professor and Vice Chairman
Department of Surgery, University of Florida
February 21 [Note special time and location - noon, LG-101A (Brain Institute Auditorium)]:
“Gene expression studies in hybrid versus inbred maize lines”
Stephen A. Goff, Ph.D., Senior Syngenta Fellow
Syngenta Biotechnology, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina
February 28:
“Genetic analyses of an arthropod natural enemy of spider mites: parahaploidy, multiple genomes, and transgenesis”
Marjorie A. Hoy, Ph.D., Eminent Scholar,
Department of Nematology and Entomology, University of Florida
March 21:
“Intracellular RNA monitoring in live single cells”
Weihong Tan, Ph.D., Professor,
Department of Chemistry, University of Florida
March 27 [Note special day and time - Monday, noon]:
“The splicing factor SF2/ASF controls cell motility through alternative splicing of Ron protooncogene”
Silvano Riva, Director,
Institute of Molecular Genetics – CNR, Pavia, Italy
April 12 [Note special day - Wednesday]:
“Glucosinolate metabolism and systems biology”
Sixue Chen, Ph.D., Assistant Professor,
Department of Botany, University of Florida
April 18 [Note special time and location - 1:00 pm, LG-101A (Brain Institute Auditorium)]:
“Human and bacterial hyper-mutation”
Myron F. Goodman, Ph.D., Professor,
Departments of Biological Sciences and Chemistry, University of Southern California
Co-sponsored with the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
April 25:
“Genomic regulation of transcription in plant development and evolution”
Matias Kirst, Ph.D., Assistant Professor,
School of Forest Resources and Conservation & Program in Plant Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Florida
May 2 [Note special time and location - noon, LG-101A (Brain Institute Auditorium)]:
“Genome syntax: punctuation marks for DNA replication”
Sergei M. Mirkin, Ph.D., Professor,
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, University of Illinois at Chicago, College of Medicine
May 9:
“Comparative genomics of single cells and cell compartments: molecular dissection of memory mechanisms”
Leonid L. Moroz, Ph.D., Associate Professor,
Department of Neuroscience, Whitney Laboratory for Marine Biosciences, University of Florida
May 25 [Note special day, time and location - Thursday, 3:00 pm, LG-101A (Brain Institute Auditorium)]:
“Targeting herpes simplex viruses for therapy of glioblastoma multiforme”
Bernard Roizman, Sc.D., Joseph Regenstein Distinguished Service Professor,
Departments of Microbiology, Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology, & Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Chicago