December - Cédric Chauve¶
Event Details
Date/Time:
Wednesday, December 14th, 2011 16h00
Location:
Location: Room 232, Leacock Building, McGill University, 855 Sherbrooke Street West
Speaker: Cédric Chauve
Affiliation: Simon Fraser University
Talk Title: Looking for lost genomes
Abstract:
Paleogenomics aims at reconstructing the genomes of extinct species, whose DNA can not be sequenced due to molecular decay. Hence the only possible approach is the study of current genomes (i.e. descendants of these extinct species) to detect conserved features that might indicate ancestral genomic characters and then to assemble these characters into ancestral genomes. In this talk I will describe recent (successfull?) efforts to reconstruct the architecture of ancient vertebrate genomes, from placental mammalians to amniotes.
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