University of Florida Genetics Institute
2007 FALL SEMINAR SERIES
2 to 3 p.m.
Refreshments will be served at 3:00 p.m.
"Chemical biology of the Ic1R one-component system: one regulator, two native ligands"
Graciela Lorca, Ph.D., Assistant Professor,
Department of Microbiology and Cell Science, University of Florida
"Phenylketonuria: gene therapy, enzyme therapy, or?"
Philip J. Laipis, Ph.D., Professor and Associate Chair,
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Florida
September 25:
"Generation, characterization and risk assessment of transgenic bahiagrass"
Fredy Altpeter, Ph.D., Assistant Professor,
Agronomy Department, University of Florida
"Genetic analysis of systemic lupus erythematosus in a mouse model"
Laurence Morel, M.D., Ph.D., Associate Professor,
Department of Pathology, Immunology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Florida
"Biochemical, physiological and genetic engineering studies of trypsin modulating oostatic factor: a potential new larvicide"
Dov Borovsky, Ph.D., Research Foundation Professor,
Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory and University of Florida
"Coordinated regulation of alternative splicing during development and its disruption in myotonic dystrophy"
Thomas A. Cooper, M.D., S. Donald Greenberg Professor of Pathology,
Baylor College of Medicine
Florida Genetics 2007 (FG2007)
Co-sponsored with the Center for Mammalian Genetics, the College of Engineering, the Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, the Evelyn F. and William L. McKnight Brain Institute, the Graduate Program in Plant Molecular and Cellular Biology, Health Science Center Libraries and the Interdisciplinary Center for Biotechnology Research
"14-3-3 interactomics - signal transduction regulation by the numbers"
Robert J. Ferl, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Horticultural Sciences, and
Director, Interdisciplinary Center for Biotechnology Research (ICBR), University of Florida
"Noise in the quorum sensing network of Vibrio fischeri"
Stephen J. Hagen, Ph.D., Associate Professor,
Physics Department, University of Florida
"Model selection in Bayesian phylogenetics"
Paul O. Lewis, Ph.D., Associate Professor,
Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, The University of Connecticut
"Phylogenetic diversity and evolution of green algae from desert biotic crust communities"
Louise A. Lewis, Ph.D., Associate Professor,
Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, The University of Connecticut
"Gene therapy for autosomal dominant retinitis pigmentosa"
Marina Gorbatyuk, Ph.D., Research Assistant Professor,
Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, University of Florida