IMEG SEMINARS
SPRING 2001

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Date	Speaker and title of seminar
01/17/01	Speaker: Erin McMullin - Department of Biology Title: Molecular phylogeny and population genetics of Gulf of Mexico deep sea tubeworms and their symbionts
01/24/01	Speaker: Dr. Stephen Schaeffer - Department of Biology Title: The Pattern and Organization of Nucleotide Diversity within the Paracentric Inversions of Drosophila pseudoobscura
01/31/01	Speaker: Brian Lazzaro - Department of Biology Title: Gene conversion and long genealogical branches in Drosophila antibacterial peptides
02/07/01	Speaker: Dr. Hong Ma - Department of Biology Title: MADS-box gene function in plants: flower development and more
02/14/01	Speaker: Dr. Mark Shriver - Department of Anthropology Title: Using admixture to study human biology and disease
02/21/01	Speaker: Kristi Montooth - Department of Biology Title: Physiological genetics of flight and metabolic performance in Drosophila: Insights from QTL mapping
02/28/01	Speaker: Dr. Takeshi Itoh - Department of Biology Title: Enhanced rates of amino acid substitution in the endosymbiotic bacteria Buchnera from aphids
03/07/01	Spring Break - No Seminar
03/14/01	Speaker: Dr. Yoshiyuki Suzuki - Department of Biology Title: Efficiencies of parsimony-based and likelihood-based methods for detecting positive selection at single amino acid sites
03/21/01	Speaker: Dr. Hiroshi Akashi - Department of Biology Title: Metabolic efficiency and amino acid composition in the proteomes of Escherichia coli and Bacillus subtilis
03/28/01	Speaker: Dr. Blair Hedges - Department of Biology Title: Human and ape molecular clocks
04/04/01	Speaker: Alison Bell - Department of Biology Title: Methylation Patterns in the Promoter Region of the GRPR Gene in Humans
04/11/01	Speaker: Dr. Ross Hardison - Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Title: Divergence in Noncoding, Nonrepetitive Genomic DNA Correlates with Frequency of Interspersed Repeats and A+T Content in Mammals
04/18/01	Speaker: Helen Piontkivska - Department of Biology Title: Phylogenetic Relationships and Divergence Times of MHC Class I Loci in Primates
04/25/01	Speaker: Dr. James Marden - Department of Biology Title: A Phylogenetic Survey and Molecular Phylogenetic Analysis of Stonefly Surface Skimming: What These Data Tell Us about the Origins of Insect Flight (back to the top of the page)