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2nd ANNUAL ARTHROPOD GENOMICS SYMPOSIUM: 

New Insights from Arthropod Genomes

April 11 - 13, 2008, in Kansas City

(with additional activities on April 10)

 

SPEAKERS:  

John Kenneth Colbourne
Center for Genomics and Bioinformatics, Indiana University
Preservation, expansion and invention of crustacean genes with reference to insect genomes

Christine G. Elsik
Georgetown University
Unusual base composition of the honey bee genome

Sarjeet S. Gill
University of California, Riverside
Mosquito midgut interactions with bacterial toxins

Catherine A. Hill
Purdue University
Tick genome organization and evolution

Thomas Kaufman
Indiana University
The latest news from CNN: What the 12 sequenced Drosophila genomes have told us about rapidly evolving genes and positive selection

J. Robert Manak
University of Iowa
Empirical annotation of arthropod genomes using tiled genomic microarrays

Subbaratnam Muthukrishnan
Kansas State University
Functional genomics of insect chitin metabolism

Hugh M. Robertson
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
What we’ve learned about the insect chemoreceptors from arthropod genome projects

Bruce R. Schatz
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
BeeSpace: Interactive functional analysis of arthropod genomic data

Jeff Stuart
Purdue University
Avirulence, sex determination, and a physical map of the Hessian fly genome

Judy Willis
University of Georgia
Insect cuticular proteins: Annotation, proteomics, expression, evolution

Evgeny Zdobnov
University of Geneva Medical School, Switzerland
A comparative perspective on insect genomes

 

 Symposium funding provided by the Center for Genomic Studies on Arthropods Affecting Human, Animal and Plant Health with support from Targeted Excellence at Kansas State University.

 
©2006 K-State Center for Arthropod Genomics. Funded with support from KSU Targeted Excellence.