The Biology of Genomes 2008

The Biology of Genomes (2008) with George Weinstock Interviewed by Orli Bahcall

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 07:10:53 -0700

George Weinstock, Ph.D. joined The Genome Center at Washington University in 2008 where he is Associate Director and Professor of Genetics. Previously, he was involved in building one of three NIH-funded large-scale Genome Centers (Baylor College of Medicine Human Genome Sequencing Center, HGSC) and subsequent sequencing of the Human Genome.

The Biology of Genomes 2008

The Biology of Genomes (2008) with Hillary Sussman Interviewed by Chris Gunter

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 06:17:52 -0700

Hillary Sussman received a PhD in Human Genetic Toxicology from the University at Albany in 2002. Until 2004, she worked as a freelance science writer on Long Island in New York, writing for magazines such as The Scientist and Drug Discovery Today. Since then, Dr. Sussman has been Executive Editor of Genome Research, a journal that publishes advances in genome biology and genomic medicine. As a primary research journal, Genome Research ranks fourth among all genetics publications and is among the top ten most highly cited research journals in biochemistry and molecular biology. Dr.

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The Biology of Genomes (2008) with Dietrich Stephan Interviewed by Andrea Anderson

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 10:32:13 -0700

Dr. Dietrich Stephan is a human geneticist who works to understand the root causes of common human diseases so that early diagnostics and interventions can be implemented. Dr. Stephan most recently was the deputy director of discovery research at the Translational Genomics Research Institute and still holds a faculty appointment there. Dr. Stephan has identified genes that predispose to disorders such as autism, exercise-induced heart attacks and sudden infant death syndrome, and contributed to understanding a multitude of common "complex genetic" disorders such as Alzheimer's disease.

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The Biology of Genomes (2008) with Kári Stefánsson Interviewed by Chris Gunter

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 10:10:43 -0700

Kári Stefánsson, M.D., Dr. Med. has served as President, Chief Executive Officer and a Director since he co-founded deCODE genetics in August 1996. Dr. Stefánsson was appointed the Chairman of the Board of Directors of deCODE genetics in December 1999. From 1993 until April 1997, Dr. Stefánsson was a professor of Neurology, Neuropathology and Neuroscience at Harvard University. In addition, from 1993 through December 1996 he was Director of Neuropathology at Beth Israel Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts.

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The Biology of Genomes (2008) with David Schwartz Interviewed by Chris Gunter

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 09:57:19 -0700

Professor David Schwartz, a Bronx native, has been working in the field of genomic analysis since 1975, when he was an undergraduate at Hampshire College in Amherst Massachusetts. During his senior year, he worked in a Harvard University laboratory using viscoelastic measurements to determine the sizes of a series of eukaryotic genomes. There, he conceived a radical approach for the electrophoretic separation of very large DNA molecules, which at the time was poorly received.

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The Biology of Genomes (2008) with Elaine R. Mardis Interviewed by Orli Bahcall

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 07:18:27 -0700

Elaine R. Mardis is an Associate Professor of Genetics and Molecular Microbiology, and Co-Director of the Genome Sequencing Center at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, MO. She holds a Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Chemistry (1989) and a B.S. in Zoology (1984) from the University of Oklahoma. Dr. Mardis has been at the Washington University School of Medicine’s Genome Sequencing Center (GSC) since 1993, playing a pivotal role in the evaluation, optimization and application of novel sequencing instrumentation, chemistry and molecular biology.

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The Biology of Genomes (2008) with Michael Levine Interviewed by Andrea Anderson

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 06:50:02 -0700

Dr. Michael Levine is is Professor of Genetics, Genomics and Development at the University of California, Berkeley. His labortaory studies gene networks that control animal development and disease. Particular efforts focus on the control of segmentation and gastrulation in the early Drosophila embryo, the immune response in Drosophila larvae, and the differentiation of the notochord and heart in the sea squirt, Ciona intestinalis.

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The Biology of Genomes (2008) with Thomas J. Hudson Interviewed by Chris Gunter

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 06:35:52 -0700

Dr. Thomas J. Hudson is President and Scientific Director of the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research (OICR). He is recruiting more than 50 internationally recognized principal investigators to implement OICR’s Strategic Plan, which focuses on prevention, early diagnosis, cancer targets and new therapeutics.

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The Biology of Genomes (2008) with Richard Gibbs Interviewed by Chris Gunter

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 06:17:43 -0700

Dr. Richard Gibbs received a B.Sc. (Hons) in 1979 and a Ph.D. in Genetics and Radiation Biology in 1986 from the University of Melbourne, Melbourne Australia. He subsequently moved to Houston as a postdoctoral fellow at Baylor College of Medicine to study the molecular basis of human-linked diseases and to develop technologies for rapid genetic analysis. During this period he also developed several fundamental technologies for nucleic acid analysis.

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The Biology of Genomes (2008) with Kelly A. Frazer Interviewed by Jan Witkowski

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 10:26:41 -0700

Dr. Kelly A. Frazer is a Professor of Genome Molecular Experimental Medicine at the Scripps Research Institute and the Director of Genomic Biology in the Scripps Genomic Medicine Program. Her current research is focused on identifying and functionally characterizing human DNA variants underlying disease. Prior to joining Scripps in 2007, Dr. Frazer held the position of Vice President of Genomics at Perlingen Sciences, where she played a key role in the HapMap Phase II project, an international effort to genotype a large fraction of common SNPs in the human genome.

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The Biology of Genomes (2008) with Xavier Estivill Interviewed by Chris Gunter

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 09:48:25 -0700

Dr. Xavier Estivill is the Director of the Genes and Disease Programme of the Centre for Genomic Regulation, and a Professor of the Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona. Dr Estivill gained his doctorate of Medicine at the Autonomous University of Barcelona in 1987, and his PhD at the University of London in 1995, for his studies on the molecular genetics of cystic fibrosis. He has contributed to the identification and analysis of a large number of genes involved in monogenic diseases and to the understanding of structural variability of the human genome and predisposition to disease.

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The Biology of Genomes (2008) with Joseph Ecker Interviewed by Jan Witkowsk

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 09:35:30 -0700

Joseph Ecker is a Professor in the Plant Biology Laboratory and the Director of the Genomic Analysis Laboratory at The Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, Ca. He earned his Ph.D. in Microbiology at the Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine and carried out postdoctoral studies with Ronald Davis at the Department of Biochemistry at Stanford University. He served on the Faculty at the University of Pennsylvania (1987-2000) before joining The Salk Institute for Biological Studies (2000).

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The Biology of Genomes (2008) with Peter Donnelly Interviewed by Jan Witkowski

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 09:25:44 -0700

Peter Donnelly, FRS, is an Australian mathematician and Professor of Statistical Science at the University of Oxford. He is a specialist in applied probability and has made important mathematical contributions to coalescent theory.

His research group at Oxford has an international reputation for the development of statistial methodology to analyse genetic data. He is a fellow of St Anne's College and, with Frances Ashcroft and Kay Davies is a director of the Oxford Centre for Gene Function.

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The Biology of Genomes (2008) with Michele Clamp Interviewed by Jan Witkowski

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 09:10:19 -0700

Michele Clamp has a first degree in Physics from the University of Oxford and then escaped to Manchester University for a PhD in experimental solid state physics. Another 3 years were blissfully spent in Manchester after transferring to the Biochemistry department for a post-doc developing novel molecular dynamics algorithms with Andy Brass. The return to the South could no longer be avoided when she joined Geoff Barton's group in October 95 ostensibly to work at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics.

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The Biology of Genomes (2008) with Carlos D. Bustamante Interviewed by Orli Bahcall

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 08:59:22 -0700

Carlos D. Bustamante is a statistical population geneticist interested in human and primate evolution, impacts of domestication on genetic architecture, and medical applications of genomics technology. He received his Ph.D. (2001), M.S. (2001), and B.A. (1997) degrees from Harvard University where he was a Ph.D. student with Daniel L. Hartl. He was also post-doctoral fellow with Peter Donnelly at Oxford under the aegis of a Marshall-Sherfield Fellowship. Since 2002, he has been on the faculty at Cornell University where he teaches statistics, statistical genetics, and bioinformatics.

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The Biology of Genomes (2008) with Leonardo Brizuela Interviewed by Andrea Anderson

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 15:34:17 -0700

Dr. Leonardo Brizuela conducted his graduate research in the laboratory of Dr. David Beach at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (1985-1988). His work on the cdc2 kinase and p13 in yeast, invertebrate marine organisms and vertebrate somatic cells resulted in important publications in the field of cell cycle regulation. He then worked on his postdoctoral fellowship at Merck Sharp and Dohme Research Labs (1989-1991) where he contributed to the understanding of the mechanism of action and characterization of the binding proteins for the immunosuppressors FK506 and rapamycin. Dr.

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The Biology of Genomes (2008) with David Bentley Interviewed by Chris Gunter

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 14:20:58 -0700

Dr. David Bentley is Vice President and Chief Scientist at Illumina Inc, developing new DNA sequencing technology for fast, accurate sequencing of complex genomes. His major research interest is the study of human sequence variation. He was previously Head of Human Genetics and founding Member of the Board of Management at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, where he played leading roles in the Institute's contribution the human genome reference sequence, The SNP Consortium and the International HapMap Project.

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The Biology of Genomes (2008) with Michael Ashburner Interviewed by Orli Bahcall

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 11:41:54 -0700

Michael Ashburner (1942-) is Professor of Biology at the University of Cambridge and is the former Joint-Head of the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI).He was educated at the Royal Grammar School, High Wycombe and the University of Cambridge, where he received his undergraduate degree (1964) and Ph.D. (1968), both in genetics. He then went to the California Institute of Technology as a postdoctoral fellow with Hershell Mitchell.

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The Biology of Genomes (2008) with Leif Andersson Interviewed by Jan Witkowski

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 10:17:51 -0700

The overall objective of Dr. Leif Andersson's group is to use a genomics approach to advance our understanding of the genetic basis for phenotypic variation. We are using domestic animals as our model organisms because domestication and animal breeding have caused major changes in many phenotypic traits. This gives a unique opportunity to unravel the genes underlying phenotypic variation.