UW News

April 19, 2007

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

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.