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April 19, 2007

Genome Symposium: ‘Pests, Plagues & Plants’ April 25

Poster announcing speakers for the UW’s 6th Annual Genome Science Symposium is on display around the Health Sciences Center buildings.

The UW’s Sixth Annual Genome Sciences Symposium takes place all day Wednesday, April 25, at the W.H. Foege Building Auditorium (S-060), beginning at 10 a.m. Registration is not required.


Speakers are:



  • Jane Carlton, associate professor, Department of Medical Parasitology, New York University School of Medicine —- Whole Genome Comparisons of Plasmodium Species

  • Tim Anderson, associate scientist, Department of Genetics, Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research —- Evolution of Malaria Parasites Under Strong Drug Selection

  • Julie Overbaugh, member, Human Biology Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center; affiliate professor, Microbiology and Pathobiology, UW —- HIV-1 Genetic Variation: Challenges of Deciphering Biological Mechanisms Amidst the Noise

  • Torbert Rocheford, professor, Plant Genetics, Department of Crop Sciences, University of Illinois —- QTL, Candidate Gene, and Association Analysis of Carotenoids and ProvitaminA in maize grain: A biosynthetic pathway model approach

  • Marcel Behr, assistant professor, Medicine, McGill University Health Centre, Montreal —- Genomic Comparisons of Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Species of Different Mammalian Hosts

  • Eric Rubin, associate professor, Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard University —- Tuberculosis: What Are All Those Genes for Anyway?


For more information, please contact symposium@gs.washington.edu , or visit our website for more information: http://www.gs.washington.edu/news/symposium07/index.htm.