IMEG

Institute of Molecular
Evolutionary Genetics

 
 
 
          
 

IMEG SEMINARS
FALL 1997
 
Previous IMEG Seminars:
  Spring 2008   Fall 2007
  Spring 2007

 
Fall 2006
  Spring 2006
 
Fall 2005
  Spring 2005

  Fall 2004
  Spring 2004

  Fall 2003

  Spring 2003
  Fall 2002

  Spring 2002

  Fall 2001

  Spring 2001

  Fall 2000
 

  Fall 1999
 
Spring 1998

  Fall 1997

 Date Speaker and title of seminar
 
 09/03/97

Speaker:
Dr. Xun Gu PSU Biology Department
Title: Rate variation among sites: Applications in time estimation and functional analysis 

 09/10/97 Speaker: Dr. Blair Hedges Biology Department
Title: A molecular timescale for vertebrate evolution 

 09/17/97 Speaker: Dr. Esther Siegfried Biology Department
Title: A study of zeste white 3, a conserved kinase in cell signaling pathways 

 09/24/97 Speaker: Dr. Austin Hughes Biology Department
Title: Myths of Gen(ome) Duplication in Vertebrate History 

 10/01/97 Speaker: Sean Reid Biology Department
Title: Sequence divergence of the flagellin (fliC) gene among enteropathogenic and enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli 

 10/08/97 Speaker: Dr. Billie Swalla Biology Department
Title: Evolution of the Chordate Body Plan: Genes, Development Morphology 

 10/15/97 Speaker: Sara GoodBiology Department
Title: Genetic and evolutionary aspects of self-incompatibility in Campanula rapunculoides 

 10/22/97 Speaker: Dr. Andy ClarkBiology Department
Title: Human DNA sequence variation and complex diseases: lipoprotein lipase and cardiovascular disease 

 10/29/97 Speaker: Dr. Zhi-Chun Lai Biology Department
Title: Neural Inhibitory Signaling in the Drosophila Eye Development 

 11/05/97 Speaker: Dr. Ivane Nasidze Academy of Sciences of Georgia, Tbilisi, Georgia
Title: Genetic Diversity in Human Populations of the Caucasus 

 11/12/97 Speaker: Dr. David Stock Anthropology Department
Title: A New Subfamily of Vertebrate Fibroblast Growth Factor Genes Related to Fgf8 

 11/19/97 NO SEMINAR - THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY

 11/26/97 Speaker: Tanya Sitnikova Biology Department
Title: 
Evolution of immunoglobulin variable region genes in vertebrates 

 12/03/97 Speaker: Melisande WolfBiology Department
Title: 
Alternative Splicing of Dragonfly Troponin T: Effects on Protein Structure and Function

 12/10/97 Speaker: Elizabeth McGrawBiology Department
Title: Coevolution of Legionella and Acanthamoeba castellanii and molecular evolution of the mip and dotA genes