Date: May 10, 2007 (Thursday) Time: Noon to 1:00 Title:  “Genome Structure, Copy Number Variations, and Human Disease” Speaker: Evan Eichler, PhD University of Washington, Seattle About the Speaker: Evan Eichler, a HHMI Investigator at the University of Washington in the Department of Genomic Sciences, is giving a noontime talk today. Dr. Eichler is a leading genomic researcher, who specializes in looking at segmental duplications (SDs) as a driving force in speciation. SDs are large regions (8-100s of kb) that are nearly identical, and are interspersed throughout the human genome. Recombination between these segments, whether they reside on the same chromosome or on different ones, results in large scale chromosome rearrangements. Dr. Eichler is now looking at the contribution of SD-mediated rearrangements in human diseases, including ones that cause mental retardation and diabetes. He has evidence for this type of event in a number of mental retardations. In this work, he is primarily using genomic arrays to detect copy number variations. This work is identical to the approach that Dr. Eli Hatchwell described last year, but is further along in its connection with known human diseases. Where:  Waisman Conference Center Room T216, Second Floor, North Tower For Further Information: Contact Teresa Palumbo at 263-5837 or palumbo@waisman.wisc.edu The Waisman Center Seminar Series is partially funded by the Friends of the Waisman Center and NIH grant P30 HD003352.   To download an Adobe Acrobat file of the entire seminar series schedule click here. (pdf schedule coming soon!)

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