New Biology Seminar
| Date/Time: | Thursday, 08 Apr 2010 at 11:00 am |
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| Location: | 1204 Kildee |
| Cost: | Free |
| Phone: | 515-294-2570 |
| Channel: | College of Agriculture and Life Sciences |
| Categories: | Lectures |
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Dr. Green holds a B.S. degree in Bacteriology from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and a M.D., Ph.D. from Washington University in Saint Louis. His research aims to understand the molecular basis of human genetic disease. He and his colleagues are performing multi-species sequence comparison in an effort to unravel the complexities of genome structure, function and evolution.
In addition to basic genomics research, Dr. Green's laboratory also investigates genetic contributions to human illness. His group has identified several human disease-related genes, including those implicated in certain forms of hereditary deafness, vascular disease and inherited peripheral neuropathy. Dr. Green is leading a number of efforts that utilize contemporary strategies for large-scale DNA sequencing to study genomic variation among humans, especially those contributing to common diseases and is involved in an NIH-based consortium that aims to understand the microbial communities that exist on human skin and how they contribute to health and disease.
Dr. Green established the NIH Center for Research on Genomics and Global Health and is leading the NIH Intramural Sequencing Center in implementing and utilizing "next-generation" DNA sequencing technologies for genome-exploration studies.