Organised in collaboration with The Scottish Phylogeny Discussion Group
Date
Monday 8th December 2014
Location
The Bute Building, St. Andrews, KY16 9TS
Maps
Directions
The Bute Building, St Andrews is number 70 (K4) on the map:
https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/media/university/maps/wwwmap.pdf
Approach the Bute Building on foot from South Street (through a gate that says 'In principio erat verbum') or from Queens Terrace. Enter through Door A, at the Queens Terrace end of the building. The meeting is on the ground floor. Talks are in Lecture Theatre A and refreshments are in the Bell Pettigrew Museum. Free on-street parking is available within 10 minutes' walk, for example on Langlands Road (around K5 on the map), Greenside Place and Kinnessburn Road. Disabled parking, next to the venue, can be booked in advance - ask Daniel Barker (db60@st-andrews.ac.uk)
Getting to St Andrews: https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/visiting/gettingtostandrews
Additional Information
The meeting itself is free. Anyone interested in an optional dinner with the speaker after the meeting, charged at cost, should book in advance by email to Daniel Barker (db60@st-andrews.ac.uk).
Registration
You can register to attend this meeting here.
Agenda
Speaker | Presentation title | Time | More info |
LUNCH | LUNCH | 12:30 - 13:30 | |
Dr. Jo Dicks | Estimating and exploiting yeast NGS-based phylogenies for industrial biotechnology | 13:30 - 14:30 | |
Emma Carroll | Assessing the influence of migratory culture on connectivity in the southern right whale | 14:30 - 14:50 | |
BREAK | Tea/coffee | 14:50 - 15:20 |
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Deepali Vasoya | Viral/host gene expression profiles in lymphoid and feather follicle epithelial (FFE) cells infected with Marek's disease virus | 15:20 - 15:40 |
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Miguel Pinheiro | Determine dimorphic nature of the zoonotic parasite Plasmodium knowlesi | 15:40 - 16:00 |
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Georgios Koutsovoulos |
Reconstructing the phylogenetic relationships of nematodes using draft genomes and transcriptomes | 16:00 - 16:20 |
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Joanne Taylor (RBGE) | Environment and host genotype influence of fungal endophyte assemblages of Scots Pine | 16:20 - 16:40 |
Attendees
Jo Dicks, Rosanna Alderson, Simon Dailey, Jane Wishart, Daniel Barker, Mohsen Nokhbatolfoghahai, Alison Meynert, Ildiko Somorjai, Heleen Plaisier, Thomas Barton-Owen, John Mitchell, Emma Carroll, Thomas Meagher, Hannah Currant, Deepali Vasoya, Kashyap Chhatbar, Miguel Pinheiro, Réka Szabó, Katrin MacKenzie, Simon Young, Silvia Paracchini, Jack Richard-Bollans, Wilber Sabiiti, Myles Garstang, Georgios Koutsovoulos, Siddharth Jayaraman, Rodrigo Bacigalupe, Jo Taylor, Clara Coll, Kirsten Wolff, Nick Levsen, Helder Ferreira, Willie Weir, Peter Thorpe, Monika Gostic, Katarina Oravcova, Dalila Seni De Jesus, Sonia Pascoal, Anne Smith, Sara Tavares, David Ferrier, Elisabet Sjokvist, Jim Procter, Fanny Gatzmann, Laura Salazar, Axel Wiberg, David Martin, Venera Tyukmaeva, Kerry Pettigrew