Sumários
Student presentations.
16 Janeiro 2020, 15:00 • Patricia Beldade
Student presentations - groups 4-6.
Polymorphism and infectious disease.
16 Janeiro 2020, 13:00 • Patricia Beldade
Host-pathogen co-evolution. Polymorphism and infectious disease. Maintenance of polymorphism because of heretozygote advantage versus negative frequency dependent selection. The insive versus outside problem of immunology. MHC, structure and function. Variation in MHC genes in human populations. Lecture by invited professor Jonathan Howard (IGC).
Human genomes and cell type transcriptomes.
15 Janeiro 2020, 13:00 • Patricia Beldade
Benefits and hazards of evolving with repetitive elements in our genome. Transposable elements families and modes of transposition. Effects of transposition. Examples of domesticated transposable elements. Mechanisms to repress TEs. Deregulation of TE repression in the brageing brain. Exploring the human cell atlas for diagnostics and therapeutics. Using intersectional genetics to attempt to find "unique" expressed gene combinations in human cell types. Lecture by invited professor Alisson Gontijo (CEDOC).
Journal Club
14 Janeiro 2020, 15:00 • Patricia Beldade
Student led journal clubs based on review paper: Evolution and Public Health 2 - groups 5 and 6.