Genome Sciences Seminars
Wednesdays, 3:30, Foege Auditorium (Foege S-060) unless otherwise noted | remote viewing option
UW Genome Sciences brings leading researchers from a broad spectrum of scientific areas to campus to discuss the latest advances in genetics, genomics, proteomics, computational research and related emerging tools and technologies.
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Not all seminars are recorded, but those which are will be posted to the past seminars page and deleted after two weeks. Please note that a current UW NetID is required to access past seminar recordings.
Spring 2024
3/27 - Dr. Casey Gifford | Stanford University
"Cardiac Organoids Unveil Novel Mechanisms Associated with Heart Development and Disease"
talk will be recorded
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4/3 - Dr. Maitreya Dunham | University of Washington
“Yeast genome evolution in and out of the lab”
10:30 | Foege Auditorium
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4/3 - Dr. Jeannette Tenthorey | UC San Francisco
"Taking a leap: evolving de novo antiviral functions"
FHCC alum
Tuesday, 4/9 - Dr. Daniel Rokhsar | UC Berkeley
"The Past Has Left Its Traces On The World, And We Only Have To Know How To Read Them"*
Animals arose more than five hundred million years ago, and by the end of the Cambrian had diversified into today's phylum-level forms. This early history is obscured by the fact that the first animals were soft-bodied and left only enigmatic fossils. Here we take a comparative genomic approach to inferring the early evolutionary history of early animals and the subsequent events that gave rise to vertebrates. We show that, with a few notable exceptions, animal chromosomes are remarkably stable and evolved slowly over hundreds of millions of years, and that some gene linkages extend even further back to before the first animals. We then use these deeply conserved aspects of genome organization to (1) show that ctenophores rather than sponges are the earliest branching lineage of living animals, which has implications for the evolution of nervous systems, and (2) decipher the history of Paleozoic polyploidy and promiscuity in our vertebrate lineage.
* Ted Chiang, Exhalation
3:30 | Foege Auditorium
4/10 - Dr. Andrew Emili | Oregon Health & Science University
"Network Systems Biology: Mapping Macromolecular Interactions Relevant to Human Health & Disease"
4/17 - Dr. Raul Andino | UC San Francisco
4/24 - Dr. Blake Meyers | UC Davis
"Phased, secondary siRNAs in plant reproduction and other pathways"
5/1 - Dr. Needhi Bhalla | UC Santa Cruz
5/8 -
5/15 - Dr. Dan Landau | New York Genome Center
5/22 - Dr. Jeff Carroll | University of Washington
5/29 - Dr. Rajiv McCoy | Johns Hopkins University
GS postdoctoral alum
Autumn 2024
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Winter 2025
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Spring 2025
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