University of Florida Genetics Institute
2009 SPRING SEMINAR SERIES
2:00 to 3:00 p.m.
"Integrating actin and adhesion in cell migration"
Clare M. Waterman, Ph.D., Chief,
Laboratory of Cell and Tissue Morphodynamics, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute
"Coordinate splicing regulation in programs of gene expression"
Manuel Ares, Jr., Ph.D., Professor,
Department of Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz
"Genetics, genomics and cell biology of mosquito larvae, the monster in your back yard"
Paul J. Linser, Ph.D., Professor,
Whitney Laboratory for Marine Bioscience, University of Florida
"Fit to marry: a mechanized exhibit of Mendelian heredity and genetics in the Bay Area 1917-1950"
Vassiliki Betty Smocovitis, Ph.D., Professor,
Departments of Biology & History, University of Florida
"The Equine Genome Project: changing the stride of equine research"
Teri L. Lear, Ph.D., Research Associate Professor,
M.H. Gluck Equine Research Center, University of Kentucky
"Microfluidic large scale integration: plumbing for high-throughput biology"
Carl L. Hansen, Ph.D., Assistant Professor,
Departments of Physics and Astronomy and Center for High-Throughput Biology, University of British Columbia
"West Nile virus and the cell stress granule system"
Margo A. Brinton, Ph.D., Professor,
Department of Biology, Georgia State University
"Integrating spatial dynamics and genetic variation into systems biology"
Aimee M. Dudley, Ph.D., Assistant Professor,
Institute for Systems Biology, Seattle, WA
"Comparative sequence analysis in plants reveals an alternatively spliced exon that regulates plant transcription factor TFIIIA"
W. Brad Barbazuk, Ph.D., Assistant Professor,
Department of Biology, University of Florida