Florida Genetics 2005
Final Program
University of Florida
Gainesville,Florida
Check-in - Grand Ballroom registration desk, 2nd floor
Opening Remarks
Indra Vasil, Ph.D., and Kenneth I. Berns, M.D., Ph.D.
"Chromatin boundaries and the regulation of gene expression"
Gary Felsenfeld, Ph.D., Chief,
Physical Chemistry Section and Laboratory of Molecular Biology, NIDDK, National Institutes of Health
"Epigenetic variation and inheritance"
Eric J. Richards, Ph.D., Professor,
Department of Biology, Washington University
Poster Session and Reception
Check-in - Grand Ballroom registration desk, 2nd floor
Continental Breakfast
"Structure and dynamics of nucleosomes and nucleosome assembly factors"
Karolin Luger, Ph.D., Associate Professor,
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Colorado State University and Howard Hughes Medical Institute
"Early nutrition and your epigenomes"
Robert A. Waterland, Ph.D., Assistant Professor,
Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine
Coffee Break
"Novel targets of DNA methylation in brain tumors"
Keith D. Robertson, Ph.D., Assistant Professor,
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Florida
"Statistical models for mapping imprinted quantitative trait loci"
Rongling Wu, Ph.D., Associate Professor,
Department of Statistics, University of Florida
"Regulation of the beta-globin gene locus during development and differentiation"
Jorg Bungert, Ph.D., Assistant Professor,
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Florida
Poster Session and Lunch
"Role of epigenetics and chromatin insulators in regulating Herpes Simplex Virus type 1 latent gene expression"
David C. Bloom, Ph.D., Associate Professor,
Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, University of Florida
"Regulation of imprinted gene expression in the Angelman/Prader-Willi syndrome region"
Thomas P. Yang, Ph.D., Professor,
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Florida
"Title to be Determined"
Karen Moore, Ph.D., Assistant Professor,
Department of Animal Sciences, University of Florida
Coffee Break
"Regulation of E2F by chromatin factors with tumor suppressor activity"
Jianrong Lu, Ph.D., Assistant Professor,
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Florida
"DNA methylation and stem cells"
Naohiro Terada, M.D., Ph.D., Associate Professor,
Department of Pathology, Immunology, and Laboratory Medicine, University of Florida