Biodiversity and Genomics Research Symposium

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.