2000 Fall Seminar Series
Genomics and Bioinformatics
Coordinators: Smita Patel, Ph.D.
September 14, 2000
Dr. Helen Berman
Rutgers University
The Protein Data Bank & Structural Genomics
September 20, 2000
Dr. Masayasu Nomura
University of California-Irvine
Transcription of Yeast rDNA; cis-Elements & Trans-factors, Polymerase
Specificity & Nucleolar Structures
September 28, 2000
Dr. David Walt
Tufts University
Randomly Ordered Fiber-Optic Oligonucleotide Arrays
October 5, 2000
Dr. Jeffrey Lawrence
University of Pittsburgh
Genetic Headroom: Predicting Rates of Horizontal Gene
Transfer with Genomics
October 26, 2000
Dr. Bik-Kwoon Tye
Cornell University
Multiple Roles of the MCM Proteins in DNA Replication and Transcription
November 2, 2000
Dr. Andrej Sali
Rockefeller University
Comparative Protein Structure Modeling of Genes and Genomes
November 9, 2000
Dr. Eugene Koonin
National Institutes of Health
Understanding Evolution through Whole-Genome Comparisons
November 16, 2000
Dr. Thomas Ellenberger
Harvard Medical School
Structural Studies of a DNA Replication Fork
December 7, 2000
Dr. Rama Ranganathan
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
U of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Information Flow in Protein Molecules


