2012 Spring Seminars
Cancer/Genetics Research Complex , 2:00 to 3:00 p.m.
January 17, CGRC 101:
“Guard cell proteomics reveals novel gene functions in glucosinolate metabolism”
Sixue Chen, Ph.D., Associate Professor,
Department of Biology, University of Florida
January 24, CGRC 101:
“Repeat-associated mutagenesis, pathogenesis and therapeutic avenues”
Christopher E. Pearson, Ph.D., Senior Scientist, Associate Professor, Canadian Genetic Disease Network Scholar
Department of Genetics, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto
January 31, CGRC 101 [Co-sponsored with the Center for NeuroGenetics and the College of Medicine]:
“The odyssey of eIF2A: A repressor of IRES-mediated translation initiation”
William C. Merrick, Ph.D., Professor,
Department of Biochemistry, School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University
February 7, CGRC 101 [Co-sponsored with the Center for NeuroGenetics and the College of Medicine]:
“Novel insights into the genetics of frontotemporal dementia and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis”
Rosa Rademakers, Ph.D., Associate Professor and Senior Associate Consultant,
Department of Neuroscience, Mayo Clinic Florida
WEDNESDAY, February 15, CGRC 101 [Co-sponsored with the Center for NeuroGenetics and the College of Medicine]:
“Translational control of cancer”
Nahum Sonenberg, Ph.D., James McGill Professor,
Department of Biochemistry, McGill University, Goodman Cancer Research Center, Montreal
February 21, CGRC 101:
“Experimental modeling of genetically diverse populations to understand health consequences of environmental exposures”
David W. Threadgill, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Genetics, North Carolina State University
March 20, CGRC 101 [Co-sponsored with the Center for NeuroGenetics and the College of Medicine]:
“Genetics of neurodegenerative diseases: insights from high-throughput resequencing”
Shoji Tsuji, M.D., Ph.D.,
Department of Neurology, University of Tokyo
March 27, CGRC 101:
“Molecular hyperdiversity and speciation in Caenorhabditis nematodes”
Asher D. Cutter, Ph.D., Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in Evolutionary Genomics
Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology and Centre for the Analysis of Genome Evolution and Function, University of Toronto
April 10, CGRC 101:
“Epigenetic regulation of apoptosis in development and tumorigenesis”
Lei Zhou, Ph.D., Associate Professor
Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, University of Florida
April 24, CGRC 101:
“Functional significance of stochastic chromatin structure in humans and maize: putting Ising on the chromatin cake”
Donald R. McCarty, Ph.D., Professor
Horticultural Sciences Department, University of Florida
May 1, CGRC 101:
“When genomes interact: a tale of three eukaryotes”
John M. Davis, Ph.D., Professor
School of Forest Resources and Conservation, University of Florida