University of Florida Genetics Institute
2008 FALL SEMINAR SERIES
"Mouse models of genetic imprinting disorders"
James Resnick, Ph.D., Associate Professor,
Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, University of Florida
"Paint by numbers: systems biology of epithelial patterning"
Stas Shvartsman, Ph.D., Associate Professor,
Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, Princeton University
September 23, CGRC 101:
"Opportunities and challenges with next generation sequencing"
Bjarne Knudsen, Ph.D., Chief Scientific Officer,
CLC bio, Aarhus, Denmark
September 30, CGRC 133:
"The genetic and genomic consequences of polyploid speciation in the plant genus Tragopogon (Asteraceae)"
Pamela S. Soltis, Ph.D., Curator,
Molecular Systematics and Evolutionary Genetics, Florida Museum of Natural History
"A multi-scale analysis of bacterial cell signaling"
Sean Crosson, Ph.D., Assistant Professor,
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Chicago
"Mining for stress tolerance genes from the arsenic hyperaccumulator fern Pteris vittata"
Bala Rathinasabapathi, Ph.D., Associate Professor,
Department of Horticultural Sciences, University of Florida
Florida Genetics 2008 (FG2008)
Co-sponsored with the Center for Epigenetics, College of Engineering, Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Evelyn F. and William L. McKnight Brain Institute, Graduate Program in Plant Molecular and Cellular Biology, Health Science Center Libraries, Interdisciplinary Center for Biotechnology Research, Center for Research in Pediatric Immune Deficiency, Clinical and Translational Science Institute, Florida Center for AIDS Research
Online conference registration deadline - Oct. 22
"Genomic insights and transgenic approach to control of a pathogenic, phloem-limited alphaproteobacterium"
Dean W. Gabriel, Ph.D., Professor,
Department of Plant Pathology, University of Florida
"The role of a non-coding RNA in the epigenetic regulation of herpes simplex virus latency"
David C. Bloom, Ph.D., Associate Professor,
Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, University of Florida
"Toward a quantitative understanding of mechanical force generation inside living cells for tissue engineering applications"
Tanmay Lele, Ph.D., Assistant Professor,
Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Florida
"Progress toward making a synthetic cell"
Hamilton O. Smith, M.D., Scientific Director,
J. Craig Venter Institute