2011 Fall Seminars
September 13, CGRC 133:
“A seed mutant reveals developmental roles of RNA splicing in maize”
A. Mark Settles, PhD, Vasil-Monsanto Associate Professor,
Department of Horticultural Sciences, University of Florida
September 20, CGRC 133:
“Human gene therapy with AAV vectors and the U.S. national debt”
Arun Srivastava, PhD, George H. Kitzman Professor of Genetics, and Chief, Division of Cellular and Molecular Therapy,
Departments of Pediatrics and Molecular Genetics & Microbiology, University of Florida
October 4, CGRC 101:
“Non-AUG translation directed by microsatellite expansions”
Laura P.W. Ranum, PhD, Director, Center for NeuroGenetics and
Professor, Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, University of Florida
October 11, CGRC 101:
“Genomics and vector-borne diseases”
Michael J. Dark, DVM, PhD, Assistant Professor,
Department of Infectious Diseases and Pathology, University of Florida
October 18, CGRC 101:
“Human genome annotation: approaches and tools, employing nextgen sequencing”
Mark Gerstein, PhD, Albert L. Williams Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry, and Computer Science,
Yale University
October 25, CGRC 101:
“Elucidation of biological processes and mechanisms through metabolomic analysis”
Danny C. Alexander, PhD, Director of Research Operations,
Metabolon, Inc.
November 1, CGRC 101:
“A tale of three myopathies: mechanisms, measures and molecular medicines”
Barry J. Byrne, MD, PhD, Professor, Departments of Pediatrics and Molecular Genetics & Microbiology,
Director, UF Powell Gene Therapy Center, University of Florida
November 9-10 [Note daylong schedule, location - Cancer/Genetics Research Complex, registration required]:
Florida Genetics 2011 (FG2011)
Co-sponsored with the Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Interdisciplinary Center for Biotechnology Research, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Center for Epigenetics, Graduate Program in Plant Molecular and Cellular Biology, Health Science Center Libraries, Evelyn F. and William L. McKnight Brain Institute, and the Emerging Pathogens Institute
November 15, CGRC 101:
“Gene replacement and genome editing as therapeutic approaches in hemophilia”
Katherine A. High, MD, William H. Bennett Professor of Pediatrics, University of Pennsylvania,
Director, Center for Cellular and Molecular Therapeutics, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
December 13, CGRC 101:
“Intra-host evolutionary dynamics of Hepatitis C Virus reveal new paradigm of infection”
Rebecca Gray, PhD, MRC Research Fellow
Department of Zoology, University of Oxford