Prof. Stephen O'Brien, from National Cancer Institute, USA
invited by  Key Laboratory of Animal Ecology and Conservation Biology, CAS

Topic: The Moving Landscape of Conservation Genomics in Mammals 
Subject: Conservation Biology
Visiting Time: Oct 16, 2008

Abstract:

Dr. Stephen J. O'Brien is Chief of the Laboratory of Genomic Diversity and head of the Section of Genetics.  He studies Drosophila genetics at Cornell University where he received a Ph.D. degree in 1971.  He came to NIH (National Institute of Health, America) as a postdoctoral fellow and built a program based on mammalian somatic cell genetics.  He is co-chairman of the International Committee on Comparative Gene Mapping and Editor of Genetic Maps. He has been engaged in conservation genetics of carnivores for over 20 years and published a lot of paper in Nature, Science, Current Biology, Plos Biology and PNAS.

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