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| Date: | 12.12.2002, 07:15h to 13.12.2002, 17:15h |
| Location: | Beckman Center, Irvine, California Irvine, California USA |
| Keywords: | Genome analysis |
| Details: | What Darwin saw as a tree of life descending in a linear fashion, is now more accurately seen as a tapestry of life, an anastomosing network, with important lateral transfers of heritable elements among parallel lines of descent. These transfers range in complexity from small insertion sequences, to whole genes, gene islands, and portions of whole genomes which may be combined in symbiogenesis. The purpose of the colloquium is to bring together researchers, empirical and theoretical, working at all levels on genomics, comparative genomics, and metagenomics to identify common and differentiating features of lateral gene transfer and to examine their implications for science and for human concerns. |
| Organizer: | National Academy of Sciences , Irvine, CA , USA |
| Contact: | Mrs. Alyssa Cruz Address: Arthur M. Sackler Colloquia, National Academy of Sciences, 5251 California Avenue, Suite 230, Irvine, CA 92617 Tel: +1 - (0)949 - 3 87 29 23 Fax: Email: acruz@nas.edu |
| Webpage: | http://www.nasonline.org/site/PageServer?pagename=sackler_tapestry |
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