2007 Spring Seminars
January 23 [Note special location - C/G 101 (Cancer/Genetics Research Complex Auditorium)]:
“The Puzzling Notion of Human-Chimpanzee Hybrids”
John R. Wakeley, Ph.D., Professor,
Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University
January 30:
“Evolutionary enzymological and physiological aspects of adenosine diphosphate glucose pyrophosphorylase”
Larkin C. Hannah, Ph.D., Professor,
Department of Horticultural Science & Program in Plant Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Florida
February 6:
“Molecular Genetics of HIV-1: the Protypic Emerging Pathogen”
Maureen M. Goodenow, Ph.D., Stephany W. Holloway University Chair for AIDS Research,
Department of Pathology, Immunology, and Laboratory Medicine, University of Florida
February 13:
“Lentiviral Gene Transfer Reverses Blindness in the Avian Model of Leber Congenital Amaurosis (LCA1)”
Susan L. Semple-Rowland, Ph.D., Professor,
Department of Neuroscience, University of Florida
February 20 [Note special location - C/G 101 (Cancer/Genetics Research Complex Auditorium)]:
“CUTting Down on Transcriptional Noise: The yeast RNA Pol II Non-poly(A) Termination Pathway”
Jeffry L. Corden, Ph.D., Professor,
Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
February 27:
“Energetic Controls on Rates of Evolution”
James F. Gillooly, Ph.D., Assistant Professor,
Department of Zoology, University of Florida
March 20:
“Phenylketonuria: Gene Therapy, Enzyme Therapy, or ?”
Philip J. Laipis, Ph.D., Professor and Associate Chair,
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Florida
April 3:
“Modeling virus assembly avoiding dynamics”
Meera Sitharam, Ph.D., Associate Professor,
Department of Computer and Information Science and Engineering, University of Florida
April 17:
“Prader-Willi Syndrome and Early-onset Morbid Obesity Genetics and Neurocognitive Findings”
Daniel J. Driscoll, M.D. Ph.D., Professor,
Departments of Pediatrics & Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, University of Florida
April 24 [Note special location - C/G 101 (Cancer/Genetics Research Complex Auditorium)]:
“Exploring genomic medicine using integrative biology”
Atul Butte, Ph.D., Assistant Professor,
Departments of Medical Informatics & Pediatrics, Stanford University Schhol of Medicine
May 1:
“A Kinase-Protein Interaction Network in Rice”
Wen-Yuan Song, Ph.D., Assistant Professor,
Department of Plant Pathology, University of Florida