University of Florida Genetics Institute
2007 SPRING SEMINAR SERIES
2 to 3 p.m.
Refreshments will be served at 1:45 p.m.
"The Puzzling Notion of Human-Chimpanzee Hybrids"
John R. Wakeley, Ph.D., Professor,
Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University
"Evolutionary enzymological and physiological aspects of adenosine diphosphate glucose pyrophosphorylase"
Larkin C. Hannah, Ph.D., Professor,
Department of Horticultural Science & Program in Plant Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Florida
"Molecular Genetics of HIV-1: the Protypic Emerging Pathogen"
Maureen M. Goodenow, Ph.D., Stephany W. Holloway University Chair for AIDS Research,
Department of Pathology, Immunology, and Laboratory Medicine, University of Florida
February 13:
"Lentiviral Gene Transfer Reverses Blindness in the Avian Model of Leber Congenital Amaurosis (LCA1)"
Susan L. Semple-Rowland, Ph.D., Professor,
Department of Neuroscience, University of Florida
"CUTting Down on Transcriptional Noise: The yeast RNA Pol II Non-poly(A) Termination Pathway"
Jeffry L. Corden, Ph.D., Professor,
Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
"Energetic Controls on Rates of Evolution"
James F. Gillooly, Ph.D., Assistant Professor,
Department of Zoology, 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
"Modeling virus assembly avoiding dynamics"
Meera Sitharam, Ph.D., Associate Professor,
Department of Computer and Information Science and Engineering, University of Florida
"Prader-Willi Syndrome and Early-onset Morbid Obesity Genetics and Neurocognitive Findings"
Daniel J. Driscoll, M.D. Ph.D., Professor,
Departments of Pediatrics & Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, University of Florida
"Exploring genomic medicine using integrative biology"
Atul Butte, Ph.D., Assistant Professor,
Departments of Medical Informatics & Pediatrics, Stanford University Schhol of Medicine
"A Kinase-Protein Interaction Network in Rice"
Wen-Yuan Song, Ph.D., Assistant Professor,
Department of Plant Pathology, University of Florida