Biodiversity and Genomics Research Symposium

"Biodiversity and Genomics" Research Symposium

The Office of the Vice President for Academic Affairs in cooperation with the Philippine Genome Center

National Institute of Physics Auditorium, National Science Complex UP-Diliman June 14, 2012

PROGRAM

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TIME	ACTIVITY/ TOPIC	SPEAKER
8:00	Registration
8:25	Opening Remarks	Gisela P. Concepcion, Ph.D., Vice President for Academic Affairs University of the Philippines Biodiversity Program Director Philippine Genome Center
8:30	DNA Barcoding and Genetic Diversity Studies on Selected Philippine Freshwater Fishes	Jonas Quilang, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Institute of Biology, College of Science, University of the Philippines
8:45	DNA Barcoding of Land Snails	Ian Kendrich Fontanilla, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Institute of Biology, College of Science, University of the Philippines
9:00 am	Parasites in the Philippines: Diversity, Coevolution, Conservation	Sarah Bush, Ph.D. Research Assistant Professor, University of Utah Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Kansas
9:30 am	Estimating Evolutionary Species Diversity in Philippine Amphibians	Rafe Brown, Ph.D. Curator-in-Charge, Herpetology Division, Natural History Museum and Biodiversity Institute, University of Kansas Associate Professor, Department of Ecology and 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. Associate Professor, Eccles Institute of Human Genetics, 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. Distinguished Professor of Biology, University of Utah
11:45	Mollusks, Microbes and Molecules: Biodiversity Based Drug Discovery in the Philippines	Margo Haygood, Ph.D. OGI Distinguished Professor in Marine and Biomolecular Systems, Oregon Health and Science University
12:15	Tracking Common Genomic Signatures of Fluoroquinolone Resistance in Clinics	Richard Sucgang, Ph.D. 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.