Programme of Lectures 2004/2005

7th October, 17:00
Prof. Dr. Edward Trifonov,University of Haifa, Izrael
"The nature and organization of genomes, their sequence structure and evolution"

21th October, 17:00
Prof. Dr. Jack Szostak, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, USA
"The origin of life and the emergence of Darwinian evolution"

18th November, 17:00
Dr. Barry Dickson, Institute of Molecular Biotechnology, Vienna, Austria
"Wired for sex: How reproductive behaviors are programmed into a fly's brain"

17th March, 17:00
Prof. Dr. Ernst Hafen, University of Zurich, Switzerland
"Genetic dissection of insulin signaling and growth in drosophila"

20th April, 17:00
Dr. Marc-André Sirard, Université Laval, Quebec, Canada
"Gene expression in bovine oocytes and embryos: Prospect and challenges"

5th May, 17:00
Prof. Sir Alec Jeffreys, University of Leicester, UK
"Genetic fingerprinting and beyond"