2008 Fall Seminars
September 2, CGRC 133:
“Mouse models of genetic imprinting disorders”
James Resnick, Ph.D., Associate Professor,
Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, University of Florida
September 9, CGRC 101 [Part of Systems Biology Seminar Subseries]:
“Paint by numbers: systems biology of epithelial patterning”
Stas Shvartsman, Ph.D., Associate Professor,
Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, Princeton University
September 23, CGRC 101:
“Opportunities and challenges with next generation sequencing”
Bjarne Knudsen, Ph.D., Chief Scientific Officer,
CLC bio, Aarhus, Denmark
September 30, CGRC 133:
“The genetic and genomic consequences of polyploid speciation in the plant genus Tragopogon(Asteraceae)”
Pamela S. Soltis, Ph.D., Curator,
Molecular Systematics and Evolutionary Genetics, Florida Museum of Natural History
October 7, CGRC 101 [Part of Systems Biology Seminar Subseries]:
“A multi-scale analysis of bacterial cell signaling”
Sean Crosson, Ph.D., Assistant Professor,
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Chicago
October 14, CGRC 133:
“Mining for stress tolerance genes from the arsenic hyperaccumulator fern Pteris vittata”
Bala Rathinasabapathi, Ph.D., Associate Professor,
Department of Horticultural Sciences, University of Florida
October 29-30 [Note daylong schedule, location - Cancer/Genetics Research Complex, registration required]:
Florida Genetics 2008 (FG2008)
Co-sponsored with the Center for Epigenetics, College of Engineering, Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Evelyn F. and William L. McKnight Brain Institute, Graduate Program in Plant Molecular and Cellular Biology, Health Science Center Libraries, Interdisciplinary Center for Biotechnology Research, Center for Research in Pediatric Immune Deficiency, Clinical and Translational Science Institute, Florida Center for AIDS Research
Online conference registration deadline – Oct. 22
November 4, CGRC 133:
“Genomic insights and transgenic approach to control of a pathogenic, phloem-limited alphaproteobacterium”
Dean W. Gabriel, Ph.D., Professor,
Department of Plant Pathology, University of Florida
November 25, CGRC 133:
“The role of a non-coding RNA in the epigenetic regulation of herpes simplex virus latency”
David C. Bloom, Ph.D., Associate Professor,
Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, University of Florida
December 2, CGRC 133 [Part of Systems Biology Seminar Subseries]:
“Toward a quantitative understanding of mechanical force generation inside living cells for tissue engineering applications”
Tanmay Lele, Ph.D., Assistant Professor,
Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Florida
December 19, CGRC 101 [Note special day and time - Friday, 11:00 a.m.]:
“Progress toward making a synthetic cell”
Hamilton O. Smith, M.D., Scientific Director,
J. Craig Venter Institute