BCB at ISU- Speaker Information

Dr. Volker Brendel

Candidate for Director of Laurence H. Baker Center for Bioinformatics and Biological Statistics

Gene Prediction and Pre-mRNA Splicing: Application of Statistical and Computational Methods to Inform Fundamental Problems in Genomics and Molecular Biology

Dr. Volker Brendel
Associate Professor of Zoology and Genetics
Iowa State University Thursday, April 26, 2001
10:00 A.M.
Howe Hall auditorium

Bio
Brendel has been an associate professor of zoology and genetics at Iowa State since 1998. Since 2000, he also has had an appointment as an associate professor in statistics. Prior to Iowa State, Brendel was a lecturer and research associate in mathematics at Stanford University. He received his undergraduate degree in mathematics/physics and biology from Christian Albrechts Universitat, Kiel, Germany, in 1978; an M.S. in applied statistics from the University of Oxford, United Kingdom, in 1980; and a Ph.D. in life sciences, bioinformatics and applied mathematics from the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel, in 1986.

Dr. Peter Dervan

Dept of Chemistry - Gilman Lecture

Beyond the Genome: Chemistry for the 21st Century

Dr. Peter Dervan
Bren Professor of Chemistry
Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
California Institute of Technology Thursday, April 26, 2001
8:00 P.M.
Room 1352 Gilman