BCB at ISU- Speaker Information

Pete Vedell

Bioinformatics & Computational Biology Student Seminar Series

Ancestral Amino Acid Inference

Pete Vedell
Major professor: Dr. Xun Gu
BCB major
Iowa State University Friday, April 26, 2002
1:10 p.m.
1420 Molecular Biology Building

Abstract
In general, constructing a phylogenetic tree is a challenging task which can involve many parameters that are difficult to estimate and for which the amount of data available is limited. In spite of this, molecular phylogenetic inference has proven to have practical biological applications. Ancestral amino acid inference presents another difficult task, but it has potential to be a useful tool in relating evolution with protein structure and function. Current work in this area of research will be discussed.

Stacey Turner

Bioinformatics & Computational Biology Student Seminar Series

Creation of a barley microarray for the study of stress pathways in Triticeae

Stacey Turner
Rotation Professors: Dr. Roger Wise & Dr. Dan Ashlock
BCB major
Iowa State University Friday, April 26, 2002
1:10 p.m.
1420 Molecular Biology Building

Abstract
Barley, Hordeum vulgare, has been studied under various conditions of stress, including cold, drought, and disease. EST libraries were constructed from different tissues under these different conditions of stress. Using these libraries, sequences were selected to be put onto a microarray. This microarray should be useful in the identification of agriculturally important genes.