VCU Biological Complexity

|| Monday, January 27, 2003||

Dr. Rui Chen
"Initial Sequence Assembly and Analysis of the Rat Genome "
Monday, January 27, 2003 at 10:00 A.M.

Dr. Rui Chen
Assistant Professor, Human Genome Sequencing Center,
Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine
"Initial Sequence Assembly and Analysis of the Rat Genome"
Sponsored by the Department of Psychiatry
and the Center for the Study of Biological Complexity, VCU
Monday, January 27, 2003 at 10:00 A.M
Biotech I Conference Center

Dr. Rui Chen is an Assistant Professor, Human Genome Sequencing Center, Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, at the Baylor College of Medicine. He will be visiting Monday and Tuesday of next week, and will be giving a seminar at 10:00 a.m. on Monday, January 27, in the Conference Center at Biotech I.

There will be time available after his seminar on Monday for those individuals interested in meeting with Tom. Please come and join us on Monday. We hope to see you there.

|| Tuesday, January 28, 2003||

Deborah Garrity, Ph.D.
"Keeping the Beat: Zebrafish Heart Rhythm Mutants"
Tuesday, January 28, 2003 at 1:00 P.M.

Dr. Deborah Garrity
Postdoctoral Fellow
Massachusetts General Hospital
Harvard Medical School
"Keeping the Beat: Zebrafish Heart Rhythm Mutants"
Tuesday, January 28, 2003 at 12:00 Noon
Sanger Hall, 8-036-032

Please come out and join us on January 28th at 12:00 noon to meet Dr. Deborah Garrity, a Postdoctoral Fellow from Massachusetts General Hospital, who will be giving a seminar in Sanger Hall in Room 8-036.

|| Tuesday, January 28, 2003||

Dr. Thomas Schneider
"Molecular Information Theory"
Tuesday, January 28, 2003 at 1:00 P.M.

Dr. Thomas Schneider
Laboratory of Experimental and Computational Biology
NCI, Frederick
"Molecular Information Theory"
Tuesday, January 28, 2003 at 1:00 P.M.
Sanger Hall, 6-032

Dr. Thomas Schneider from the Laboratory of Experimental and Computational Biology, NCI, Frederick will be visiting next week and giving a special seminar at 1:00 on Tuesday in Sanger Hall, 6-032. Tom works on molecular information theory, and in particular the development of "sequence logos" and "sequence walkers" for nucleic acid binding sites.

More information can be found at Dr. Schneider's web site: http://www.lecb.ncifcrf.gov/~toms/

There will be time available after his seminar on Tuesday (and possibly Tuesday morning as well) for interested individuals to meet with Tom.

|| Friday, January 31, 2003||

Professor Paul Seybold
"Approaches to Chemical Complexity using Cellular Automata"
Friday, January 31, 2003 at 3:15 P.M.

Professor Paul Seybold
Professor of Chemistry
Wright State University
Dayton, Ohio
"Approaches to Chemical Complexity using Cellular Automata"
Sponsored by the Department of Medicinal Chemistry, VCU
Friday, January 31, 2003 at 3:15 P.M
Room 107, Smith Building
Health Science Campus

Professor Seybold is a native of southern New Jersey. He studied Engineering Physics at Cornell University and received a Ph.D. in Biophysics from Harvard University. He then did postdoctoral work at the Quantum Chemistry Group, Uppsala University in Sweden and at the Biochemistry Division at the University of Illinois.

He is presently Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Chair of the Chemistry Department at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio. His research interests are in applied quantum chemistry, molecular structure-property relationships, and chemical applications of cellular automata models. He is also an External Fellow of the Center for the Study of Biological Complexity at VCU, and we are very pleased that he could come and join us on Friday.

Please try and make time in your busy day by winding down the week with Dr. Seybold. We hope to see you there!