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The 2008 Symposium on Microbial Evolution and Genomics will take place at the Department of Medical Parasitology of the NYU School of Medicine. Our host for this year is Jane Carlton.

The address is: 341 East 25th Street between 1st and 2nd Avenues (get the map). Press the reception buzzer to be let into the building, and the seminar room is immediately on the right after the double door entrance.

Please note that all talks are 15 mins, so a 12 min talk (which approximates to 12 slides) with 3 mins for questions would be ideal.

Please bring all PowerPoint presentations on a memory stick to be loaded onto the Windows PC in the seminar room. The first 6 presenters should arrive 15 mins before the start of the meeting in order to load their presentations. The remaining 6 presenters should load their presentations during the tea break.

program

  • 2:00-2:15 -- Sergios-Orestis Kolokotronis, Columbia/AMNH
    Molecular evolution of elephant tuberculosis
  • 2:15-2:30 -- Kevin Drew, NYU
    Protein function prediction using structural homology
  • 2:30-2:45 -- Kurt Lienau, AECOM
    The evolution of cervical carcinogenicity in the Papillomaviridae
  • 2:45-3:00 -- Banoo Malik, NYU
    The early evolution of meiosis genes
  • 3:00-3:15 -- Paul Planet, Columbia/AMNH
    More evidence that horizontally transferred genes hold up the vertical tree of life
  • 3:15-3:30 -- Fernando Merino, NYU
    Identification and characterization of genes under positive selection in Plasmodium vivax: a pilot project
  • 3:30-4:00 -- TEA
  • 4:00-4:15 -- Rob DeSalle, AMNH
    Phylogenomic phylogeny of the Pasturellaceae
  • 4:15-4:30 -- John Ho, Cornell
    Is there evidence for M. tuberculosis adaptation to specific ethnic host?
  • 4:30-4:45 -- Paul Grabowski, NYU
    The spore coat genetic dependency network in B. subtilis
  • 4:45-5:00 -- Katherine Wang, NYU
    Investigating the role of SpoVID in spore coat morphogenesis
  • 5:00-5:15 -- Koenraad Vandoorslaer, AECOM
    The full genome of FlPV-1, a novel papillomavirus infecting Francolin birds, reveals E6 and E7 proteins with unusual structural features: implications for papillomaviral evolution
  • 5:15-5:30 -- Shaila Musharoff, NYU
    Multi-species integrated biclustering
  • 5:30-5:45 -- Page Caufield, NYU
    Phylogeny of Streptococcus mutans parallels the migrational history of its human host
    • last update: Friday, January 24