About the Genomics Seminar Series
The genomics seminar series is open to host relevant talks from any department or program. Currently, we host the Evolutionary Functional Genomics seminar series, which is organized via the Department of Ecology and Evolution (organized by John True & Joshua Rest).
Upcoming Seminars:
Past Seminars
February 24, 2016
Thomas Sharpton – What lies inside: investigations into the ecology, evolution, and function of the gut microbiome
February 3, 2016
Nolwenn M. Dheilly – Looking beyond the Red Queen: role of microorganisms in host-parasite interactions
November 20, 2015
Audrey P. Gash – Exploiting the yeast stress-activated signaling network to inform on stress biology and disease signaling
Laufer Center Lecture Hall 101
September 9, 2014
Steve Skiena – Optimizing the Design of Coding Sequences.
May 5, 2014
Nancy Hollingsworth -Phosphorylation and the regulation of meiotic recombination in yeast.
April 7, 2014
Daniel Bogenhagen – Evolution of the Mitochondrial Genetic System in Vertebrates.
March 24, 2014
Loretta Au – Exploring protein sequence space under multiple contributions to fitness.
February 10, 2014
Sasha Levy – Evolutionary dynamics of one million barcoded lineages
April 15, 2013
Kate Creasey – Plants Catch Transposons in the Act: Widespread Transposon control in Arabidopsis by miRNAs and epigenetically activated secondary siRNAs in the absence of DNA methylation.
April 2, 2013
Christian Schlötterer -Pool-Seq-a versatile method for evolutionary genetics
March 11, 2013
Christos Noutsos – Big Data in Plant Biology: an example in Ecology and Evolution
December 3, 2012
Tom McCarthy – Robustness in gene regulatory networks and what it can tell us about the evolution of biological complexity
April 24, 2012
Gina Sorrentino – Evolution of Animal Body Pattern: Conservation and Evolutionary Divergence in the Activity of Receptor-regulated Smads
October 25, 2011
Michael Hadjiargyrou – Transcriptional profiling: discovery of a novel musculoskeletal cell marker.
April 12, 2011
Jackie Collier – Labyrinthulomycetes: role in marine ecosystems and potential uses in biotech and renewable energy
March 22, 2011
Sergei Maslov – Parkinson’s Law in Bacterial Regulation
November 9, 2010
Daniel van der Lelie – Mechanisms underlying the beneficial interactions of the endophyte Enterobacter sp. 638 on poplar
October 12, 2010
Michael Cressy – Experimental Evolution of rutabaga Suppression: Modeling Epistasis Underlying Learning
Joshua Rest – Sphingolipid Regulation: Hanging off a Cliff
September 14, 2010
Walter Eanes – Metabolic Crossroads and Drosophila adaptation
David McKinnon – Regulatory evolution in electrophysiological
systems