University of Florida Genetics Institute
2004 SPRING SEMINAR SERIES
2 to 3 p.m.
Refreshments will be served at 1:45 p.m.
"How plants split hairs: the genetics of trichome branching in Arabidopsis"
David G. Oppenheimer, Ph.D., Associate Professor,
Department of Botany, University of Florida
(PubMed Search), (UFGI New Faculty Profile)
"Patterns of gene expression reveal a temporally orchestrated wound healing response in the injured rat spinal cord"
Margaret Jo Verlardo, Ph.D., Assistant Research Professor,
Department of Neuroscience, University of Florida
February 3:
"Statistical alignment of biological sequences"
Bjarne Knudsen, Ph.D., Post-doctoral Fellow,
Department of Zoology, University of Florida
"How can we make comparative method analyses within species?"
Joseph Felsenstein, Ph.D., Professor,
Department of Genome Sciences and Biology, University of Washington
(PubMed search), (National Academy Profile)
"Developmental acquisition of resistance to cellular stress in bovine preimplantation embryos"
Peter J. Hansen, Ph.D., Professor,
Department of Animal Sciences & Program in Animal Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Florida
"Genetics of plant development in the genomics era"
Donald R. McCarty, Ph.D., Professor,
Department of Horticultural Sciences & Program in Plant Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Florida
"Epigenetic regulation of the HPRT locus"
Thomas P. Yang, Ph.D., Professor,
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Florida
"Developmental genetics of the external genitalia: from evolutionary origins to congenital malformations"
Martin J. Cohn, Ph.D., Associate Professor,
Department of Zoology, University of Florida
"Human cytomegalovirus triggers and then blocks an innate anti-viral response"
Thomas E. Shenk, Ph.D., James A. Elkins, Jr. Professor in the Life Scinces, and Chair, Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University
(PubMed search), (National Academy Profile)
"Use of functional genomics in conjunction with bacterial model systems for the identification of human genes that underlie inherited disorders of B12 metabolism"
Thomas A. Bobik, Ph.D., Associate Research Professor,
Department of Pediatrics, University of Florida
"Progress toward creation of a bacterium with a synthetic genome"
John Glass, Ph.D.,
Institute for Biological Energy Alternatives
Co-sponsored with the Department of Pathobiology
"Interactions between Porphyromonas gingivalis and its human host"
Ann Progulske-Fox, Ph.D., Professor,
Department of Oral Biology, University of Florida