University College, Cork, 7 - 9 September 1999

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Thursday 9 September

Protein and Peptide Science Group/ Industrial Biochemistry and Biotechnology Group Colloquium
Evolution of Sequences, Structures and Genomes

Organizer:
D. Higgins (Cork)
Chair:
K. Wolfe (Dublin)
Speakers:
09.00 D. Higgins (Cork)
Introductory remarks
09.05 G. Barton (EBI, London)
Probing the limits of protein sequence and structure comparison
09.40 T. Gibson (Heidelberg)
Evidence in favour of ancient octaploidy in the vertebrate genome
10.20 Poster Session
11.00 W. Taylor (MRC, Mill Hill)
Alignment using structure
11.40 C. Orengo (London)
Functional insights from protein structural families
12.20 C. Chothia (Cambridge)
Genome sequences and protein structures
13.00 Lunch
Chair:
W. Taylor (MRC, Mill Hill)
Speakers:
14.00 K. Wolfe (Dublin)
Genome duplications and gene order evolution in eukaryotes
14.40 P. Sharpe (Nottingham)
The origins and evolution of the AIDS virus
15.20 Close

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