UCSD Genetics and Genomics in Medicine

Seminar Series 2007-2008

September 20
Kang Zhang
Eccles Institute of Human Genetics, U. of Utah
"Molecular genetics of macular degeneration: From monogenic Stargardt macular dystrophy to complex trait age-related macular degeneration"

October 4
Pedro Aza-Blanc
Director, Functional Genomics, Burnham Institute
"Cell-based screening on the Mesa: Integrating basic and translational research"

October 18
Stanley Nelson
Human Genetics, UCLA
"Use of high density SNP arrays for ancestral IBD mapping"

November 1
Huda Zoghbi*
HHMI, Baylor College of Medicine
"New insight into pathogenesis of dominantly inherited neurodegenerative diseases"
*note special time and place: 4 pm, CMG Large Conference Room

November 15
Aravinda Chakravarti
McKusick-Nathans Institute for Genetic Medicine
Johns Hopkins Medical Institutes
"Is sudden cardiac death genetic?"

December 6
David Cox
Chief Scientific Officer, Perlegen, Inc.
"Genome-wide association and complex human traits"

December 20
Hal Hoffman
Departments of Pediatrics and Medicine
Division of Allergy, Immunology, and Rheumatology, UCSD
"Hunting for rare disease genes"

January 17
Jeff Trent
President and Scientific Director
Translational Genomics Research Institute, Phoenix, Arizona
"Genomic approaches for novel molecular target identification and translation"

February 7
Radha Ayyagari
Department of Ophthalmology
University of California, San Diego
"Molecular mechanisms underlying atrophic macular degeneration"

February 21
Eric Topol
Director, Scripps Translational Science Institute
Scripps Health, La Jolla
"Will genomics change the future of medicine?"

March 6
Gene Yeo
Crick-Jacobs Center for Computational and Theoretical Biology
Salk Institute, La Jolla
"Alternative splicing: Bits and bytes"

March 20
Arthur Lander
Chair, Department of Developmental and Cell Biology
University of California, Irvine
"Animal models of Cornelia de Lange Syndrome: What they tell us about chromosome cohesion proteins, gene regulation, and the origins of human birth defects"

April 3
Eddy Rubin*
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and
Director, DOE Joint Genome Institute
"Genomes Decoded: Microbes and Hominids"
*note special time and place: 4 pm, CMG Large Conference Room

April 17
Christopher Burge*
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"Global patterns in pre-mRNA processing"
*note special time and place: 4 pm, CMG Large Conference Room

May 1
Elliot Sherr
Department of Neurology
University of California, San Francisco
"Agenesis of the corpus callosum: The genetics and biology of cerebral connectivity"

May 9 - UCSD Genetics Training Program Distinguished Alumnus Lecture
Rex Kerr
HHMI Janelia Farms Research Campus
"Rapid quantitative screening for nontrivial behavioral defects in C. elegans"
Note special time and place: 5 pm CMG Large Conference Room

May 15
Schahram Akbarian
Department of Psychiatry
University of Massachusetts
"Chromatin remodeling and epigenetics mechanisms involved in schizophrenia and other psychiatric disease"

June 5
Nicholas Katsanis
Institute of Genetic Medicine
Johns Hopkins University
"The paradigm of gliopathies: Dissecting the genetic load to understand phenotypic variability"

Sponsored by the Departments of Medicine, Neuroscience, Pediatrics and Psychiatry
*Jointly sponsored by the Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine
Co-Organizers: Joseph Gleeson and Bruce Hamilton

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