[Colloquium] Fwd: Distinguished Lecture

[Margery Ishmael]

> TTI-C Distinguished lecture
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> Presented by:  Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago
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> Speaker:  Eddy Rubin
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> Speaker’s home page: http://www.jgi.doe.gov/News/news
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> Date: Wednesday, January 31, 2007
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> Location:  Kent 120
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> Time: 2:00pm
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> Title: Extreme Comparative Genomics: Microbes to Neanderthals
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> The Joint Genome Institute is a large-scale production DNA  
> sequencing and analysis facility with more than 300 genomes  
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> Two projects where sequence data has revealed insights into  
> biological systems that have otherwise proven difficult to study  
> include; the symbiotic relationship between a microbial community  
> and a gutless worm and a 4000-year-old Neanderthal. Analysis of the  
> worm data has revealed the mechanisms by which the worm was able to  
> outsource waste and energy management to the associated microbes.   
> In the Neanderthal study, deep sequencing and analysis of genomic  
> DNA extracted from bones of a 40,000-year-old hominid is  
> demonstrating that analytically significant quantities of ancient  
> genomic sequence can be obtained and revealed the evolutionary  
> relationship between Neanderthals and Homo sapiens.
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> If you have any questions or would like to meet the speaker, please  
> contact Ponda Barnes at pondabarnes at tti-c.org
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> Distinguished lecture series website http://tti-c.org/dls
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