2007 Fall Seminars
August 28:
“Chemical biology of the Ic1R one-component system: one regulator, two native ligands”
Graciela Lorca, Ph.D., Assistant Professor,
Department of Microbiology and Cell Science, University of Florida
September 11:
“Phenylketonuria: gene therapy, enzyme therapy, or?”
Philip J. Laipis, Ph.D., Professor and Associate Chair,
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Florida
September 25:
“Generation, characterization and risk assessment of transgenic bahiagrass”
Fredy Altpeter, Ph.D., Assistant Professor,
Agronomy Department, University of Florida
October 9:
“Genetic analysis of systemic lupus erythematosus in a mouse model”
Laurence Morel, M.D., Ph.D., Associate Professor,
Department of Pathology, Immunology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Florida
October 23:
“Biochemical, physiological and genetic engineering studies of trypsin modulating oostatic factor: a potential new larvicide”
Dov Borovsky, Ph.D., Research Foundation Professor,
Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory and University of Florida
October 30:
“Coordinated regulation of alternative splicing during development and its disruption in myotonic dystrophy”
Thomas A. Cooper, M.D., S. Donald Greenberg Professor of Pathology,
Baylor College of Medicine
November 7-8 [Note daylong schedule, location - Cancer/Genetics Research Complex, registration required]:
Florida Genetics 2007 (FG2007)
Co-sponsored with the Center for Mammalian Genetics, the College of Engineering, the Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, the Evelyn F. and William L. McKnight Brain Institute, the Graduate Program in Plant Molecular and Cellular Biology, Health Science Center Libraries and the Interdisciplinary Center for Biotechnology Research
November 13:
“14-3-3 interactomics – signal transduction regulation by the numbers”
Robert J. Ferl, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Horticultural Sciences, and
Director, Interdisciplinary Center for Biotechnology Research (ICBR), University of Florida
November 27:
“Noise in the quorum sensing network of Vibrio fischeri”
Stephen J. Hagen, Ph.D., Associate Professor,
Physics Department, University of Florida
December 4:
“Model selection in Bayesian phylogenetics”
Paul O. Lewis, Ph.D., Associate Professor,
Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, The University of Connecticut
December 5 [Note special day and time - Wednesday, 3:30-4:30]:
“Phylogenetic diversity and evolution of green algae from desert biotic crust communities”
Louise A. Lewis, Ph.D., Associate Professor,
Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, The University of Connecticut
December 11:
“Gene therapy for autosomal dominant retinitis pigmentosa”
Marina Gorbatyuk, Ph.D., Research Assistant Professor,
Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, University of Florida