University of Florida Genetics Institute
2005 FALL SEMINAR SERIES
2 to 3 p.m.
Refreshments will be served at 1:45 p.m.
"RNA-mediated disease"
Maurice S. Swanson, Ph.D., Professor,
Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, University of Florida
"Bioinformatics tools for human genetics"
Alberto Riva, Ph.D., Research Associate, Informatics Program, Children's Hospital,
and Instructor, Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
"Comparative mutational biology of self-fertile Rhabditid nematodes"
Charles F. Baer, Ph.D., Assistant Professor,
Department of Zoology, University of Florida
September 27:
"Linking gene and function by comparative genomics: the tRNA modification goldmine"
Valerie de Crecy-Lagard, Ph.D., Assistant Professor,
Department of Microbiology and Cell Science, University of Florida
"Regulation of genomic rearrangement in the developing immune system"
Stephen Desiderio, Ph.D., Professor,
Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Johns Hopkins University
"Gene compositional biases and gene finding in herpesvirus and prokaryotic genomes"
Luciano Brocchieri, Ph.D., Senior Research Scientist,
Department of Mathematics, Stanford University
"Fast and accurate methods for analysis of biosequences"
Tamer Kahveci, Ph.D., Assistant Professor,
Department of Computer and Information Science and Engineering, University of Florida
"Genome-wide mapping of in vivo transcription factor loci in Arabidopsis"
Maria Gallo, Ph.D., Associate Professor,
Department of Agronomy & Program in Plant Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Florida
"Utilization of mRNA and protein biomarkers to understand mechanisms of toxicity in wildlife"
Nancy D. Denslow, Ph.D., Associate Professor,
Department of Physiological Sciences & Center for Environmental and Human Toxicology, University of Florida
"Chromatin insulators and nuclear organization"
Victor G. Corces, Ph.D., Professor,
Department of Biology, Johns Hopkins University
"Origins of marine megadiversity: spatio-temporal dynamics of speciation on coral reefs"
Gustav Paulay, Ph.D., Curator,
Marine Malacology, Florida Museum of Natural History
"Florida Genetics 2005 (FG2005)"
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Co-sponsored with the Center for Mammalian Genetics, Plant Molecular and Cellular Biology Program, and Health Science Center Libraries
December 6:
"Genetic models for human vascular diseases"
S. Paul Oh, Ph.D., Associate Professor,
Department of Physiology and Functional Genomics, University of Florida
"National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) Field Guide Workshop"
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Co-sponsored with the Health Science Center Libraries
"A comparison of Bayesian and likelihood estimation of population genetic parameters"
Peter Beerli, Ph.D., Assistant Professor,
Computational Evolutionary Biology Group, School of Computational Science, & Department of Biological Sciences, Florida State University