Posted on November 27, 2002 at 1:45 p.m.

WHAT:

Christopher Haley, director of genetics and biometry at the Roslin Institute in Edinburgh, Scotland, where a sheep named Dolly was cloned in 1997, will address a gathering of genetic scientists during a one-day symposium hosted by the department of biostatistics in the School of Public Health at UAB. The symposium will focus on plant and animal genomics, specifically, the use of quantitative analysis to pool multiple sources of information to better understand networks of genes.

WHEN:

Monday, December 2, 2002
8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

WHERE:

Volker Hall, Lecture Room D
1670 University Boulevard
Birmingham, AL

MORE:

The symposium supports a new statewide “greenomics” initiative, a collaborative effort of UAB and other academic institutions to explore the genomes of various plants. “Understanding the genome of plants and other agricultural crops is critical to ensuring the food supply and producing plants that are more nutritional and resistant to environmental and other stresses,” said David B. Allison, Ph.D., professor of biostatistics and head of the section on statistical genetics in the School of Public Health at UAB.

The symposium is funded, in part, by a grant from the Institute for Mathematical Statistics in Beachwood, Ohio. UAB co-sponsors are the Heflin Center for Human Genetics, the section on statistical genetics, the department of biostatistics and the School of Public Health.

For more information, contact Hemant Tiwari, Ph.D., with the department of biostatistics at UAB at (205) 934-4907 or by e-mail at htiwari@ms.soph.uab.edu.