IMEG

Institute of Molecular
Evolutionary Genetics

 
 
 
          
 

IMEG SEMINARS
FALL 1999
 
Previous IMEG Seminars:
Fall 2009

Spring 2009

Fall 2008

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
 
 09/08/99

Speaker:
Dr. Mark D. Shriver, Dept. of Anthropology
Title: Admixture as a tool in anthropology, human genetics and epidemiology 

 09/15/99 Speaker: Dr. James Lyons-Weiler, Dept. of Biology
Title: Dynamic evolution of expression patterns and functional specialization in the alkaline phosphatase multigene family

 09/22/99 Speaker: Dr. Junhyong Kim, Dept. of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University
Title: Geometry of phylogenetic estimation

 09/29/99 Speaker: Marcel VanTuinen, Dept. of Biology
Title: The early history of modern birds inferred from DNA sequences of nuclear and mitochondrial ribosomal genes

 10/06/99 Speaker: Dr. Ron Adkins, Dept. of Biology, University of Massachusetts
Title: Molecular evolution of the multi-gene primate growth hormone locus

 10/13/99 Speaker: Alberto Civetta, Dept. of Biology
Title: The genetics and mechanism of sperm competition in Drosophila

 10/20/99 Speaker: Dr. A. Bernardo Carvalho, Dept. of Biology
Title: Intron size and natural selection

 10/27/99 Speaker: Chen Su, Dept. of Biology
Title: Evolution by a birth-and-death process in T-cell receptor VB gene families in human and mouse genomes

 11/03/99 Speaker: Dr. Zhi-Chun Lai Biology Department
Title: Neural Inhibitory Signaling in the Drosophila Eye Development 

 11/10/99 Speaker: Dr. Ivane Nasidze Academy of Sciences of Georgia, Tbilisi, Georgia
Title: Genetic Diversity in Human Populations of the Caucasus 

 11/17/99 Speaker: Dr. David Stock Anthropology Department
Title: A New Subfamily of Vertebrate Fibroblast Growth Factor Genes Related to Fgf8 

 11/24/99 NO SEMINAR - THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY

 12/01/99 Speaker: Tanya Sitnikova Biology Department
Title: 
Evolution of immunoglobulin variable region genes in vertebrates 

 12/08/99 Speaker: Melisande WolfBiology Department
Title: 
Alternative Splicing of Dragonfly Troponin T: Effects on Protein Structure and Function