University of Florida Genetics Institute
2006 SPRING SEMINAR SERIES
2 to 3 p.m.
Refreshments will be served at 1:45 p.m.
"What makes a eukaryote a eukaryote? On the origin of mitochondria and the nucleus"
William F. Martin, Ph.D., Professor
Institute of Botany, Heinrich-Heine University, Dusseldorf
"Avian phylogenomics"
Rebecca T. Kimball, Ph.D., Assistant Professor,
Department of Zoology, University of Florida
February 14:
"Functional genomics and the biology of trauma"
Lyle L. Moldawer, Ph.D., Professor and Vice Chairman
Department of Surgery, University of Florida
"Gene expression studies in hybrid versus inbred maize lines"
Stephen A. Goff, Ph.D., Senior Syngenta Fellow
Syngenta Biotechnology, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina
"Genetic analyses of an arthropod natural enemy of spider mites: parahaploidy, multiple genomes, and transgenesis"
Marjorie A. Hoy, Ph.D., Eminent Scholar,
Department of Nematology and Entomology, University of Florida
"Intracellular RNA monitoring in live single cells"
Weihong Tan, Ph.D., Professor,
Department of Chemistry, University of Florida
"The splicing factor SF2/ASF controls cell motility through alternative splicing of Ron protooncogene"
Silvano Riva, Director,
Institute of Molecular Genetics - CNR, Pavia, Italy
"Glucosinolate metabolism and systems biology"
Sixue Chen, Ph.D., Assistant Professor,
Department of Botany, University of Florida
"Human and bacterial hyper-mutation"
Myron F. Goodman, Ph.D., Professor,
Departments of Biological Sciences and Chemistry, University of Southern California
Co-sponsored with the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
"Genomic regulation of transcription in plant development and evolution"
Matias Kirst, Ph.D., Assistant Professor,
School of Forest Resources and Conservation & Program in Plant Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Florida
"Genome syntax: punctuation marks for DNA replication"
Sergei M. Mirkin, Ph.D., Professor,
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, University of Illinois at Chicago, College of Medicine
"Comparative genomics of single cells and cell compartments: molecular dissection of memory mechanisms"
Leonid L. Moroz, Ph.D., Associate Professor,
Department of Neuroscience, Whitney Laboratory for Marine Biosciences, University of Florida
"Targeting herpes simplex viruses for therapy of glioblastoma multiforme"
Bernard Roizman, Sc.D., Joseph Regenstein Distinguished Service Professor,
Departments of Microbiology, Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology, & Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Chicago