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!TIME
! ACTIVITY/ TOPIC
! SPEAKER
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| 8:00
| Registration
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|-
| 8:25
|Opening Remarks
|[[Gisela P. Concepcion]], Ph.D.,
''Vice President for Academic Affairs''<br />
University of the Philippines<br />
''Biodiversity Program Director''<br /> Philippine Genome
Center
|-
| 8:30
| DNA Barcoding and Genetic Diversity Studies on
Selected Philippine Freshwater Fishes
| [[Jonas P. Quilang]], Ph.D.<br />
Assistant Professor, Institute of Biology,<br />
College of Science, University of the Philippines
|-
| 8:45
| DNA Barcoding of Land Snails
| [[Ian Kendrich Fontanilla]], Ph.D.<br />
Assistant Professor, Institute of Biology,<br />
College of Science, University of the Philippines
|-
| 9:00 am
| Parasites in the Philippines: <br />Diversity, Coevolution,
Conservation
| Sarah Bush, Ph.D.<br />
Research Assistant Professor, University of Utah<br />
Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Kansas
|-
| 9:30 am
| Estimating Evolutionary Species Diversity in
Philippine Amphibians
| Rafe Brown, Ph.D.<br />
Curator-in-Charge, Herpetology Division,<br />
Natural History Museum and Biodiversity Institute,<br />
University of Kansas<br />
Associate Professor, Department of Ecology and<br />
Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas
|-
|10:00am
|Using Next-Gen Sequencing to Identify the
Molecular Basis of Artificially-Selected Traits in the
Common Pigeon
|Mark Yandell, Ph.D.<br />
Associate Professor, Eccles Institute of Human Genetics,<br />
Health Sciences Center, University of Utah
|-
|11:15
|Using Molecular Genetics and Genomics to
Investigate the Biodiversity of Venomous Philippine
Mollusks
|Baldomero Olivera, Ph.D.<br />
Distinguished Professor of Biology, University of Utah
|-
|11:45
|Mollusks, Microbes and Molecules: Biodiversity
Based Drug Discovery in the Philippines
|Margo Haygood, Ph.D.<br />OGI Distinguished Professor in Marine and
Biomolecular Systems, <br />Oregon Health and Science
University
|-
|12:15
|Tracking Common Genomic Signatures of
Fluoroquinolone Resistance in Clinics
|Richard Sucgang, Ph.D.<br />Assistant Professor, Verna and Marrs MacLean
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology,
Baylor College of Medicine
|-
|12:45
|Open Forum
|Gisela P. Concepcion, Ph.D.
|-
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