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8 to 8:30 a.m.
Registration
Continental Breakfast


8:30 a.m.

Welcome
Arthur D. Riggs, Ph.D.
City of Hope


8:40 to 9:40 a.m.

"Urzymology Affords a Strong, Experimental Bayesian Likelihood Supporting the Rodin-Ohno Hypothesis"
Charles Carter, Jr.
Professor
Biochemistry and Biophysics
School of Medicine
University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill


9:40 to 10:40 a.m.

"Understanding Etiology of Complex Neurodevelopmental Disorders: Two Approaches"
Andrey Rzhetsky
Professor of Medicine and Human Genetics
Computation Institute and Institute for Genomics and Systems Biology
University of Chicago


10:40 to 11 a.m.
Break


11 a.m. to Noon


"Coalescent and Germline Mutational Patterns"
Yun-Xin Fu
Betty Wheless Trotter Professor
Division of Biostatistics and Human Genetics Center
School of Public Health
University of Texas – Houston


Noon to 1 p.m.
Lunch


1 to 1:10 p.m.


Andrei S. Rodin, Ph.D.
University of Texas -- Houston


1:10 to 2:10 p.m.

"Origin of Cells: On the Crossroads of Geochemistry, Comparative Genomics, Cell Biology and Virology"
Eugene V. Koonin
Senior Investigator
National Center for Biotechnology Information
National Library of Medicine
National Institute of Health


2:10 to 3:10 p.m.

"Amino Acid Biogenesis: tRNA-dependent Pathway of Cysteine Biosynthesis is Accompanied by Increase of Cysteine Content in Methanogenic Archaea"
Mark Safro
Professor
The Lee and William Abramowitz Chair of Macromolecular Biophysics
Department of Structural Biology
Weizmann Institute of Science


3:10 to 3:30 p.m.
Break


3:30 to 4:30 p.m.

"Computational Tools for High-Throughput Analysis of Bio-Medical Data"
Victor Solovyev
Professor
Department of Computer Science
Royal Holloway
University of London


4:30 to 5:30 p.m.

"Ribosome Origins: What Can We Infer from the Modern Machinery"
George E. Fox
Moores Professor
Department of Biology and Biochemstry
University of Houston


5:30 p.m.
Conclusion

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