Presentations

Here you can download PDF copies of presentations made by members of the Blaxter Group. Please note that we would rather that you didn't
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2009

Birmingham December 2009: Infectious Disease Research Network "Next Generation Sequencing" meeting. Talk on Parasite genome sequencing: from no genome to post genome in no time at all. PDF

Edinburgh Zoo, November 2009: Darwin 200 Celebration "What Darwin Didn't Know" talk on 150 year anniverasry of the publication of the Origin of Species by means of Natural Selection PDF

Berlin 2009 Darwin celebration Trans-splicing and operons in Metazoa PDF

BBSRC ELIXIR consultation December 2009 Bioinformatics needs: GenePool perspective PDF

St Andrews Comparative Genomics meeting - GenePool and the next generation sequencing deluge 2009 PDF

Sanger Institute - comparative C. elegans genome sequencing 2009 PDF

2008

Karlsruhe, April 2008 "Comparative nematode genomics" (again!) (Mark Blaxter) PDF

Nematode trans-spliced leaders and operons: some slides describing this feature of nematode genomes including Bernadette Connoly's discovery of TSL in Trichinella (Mark Blaxter) PDF

2007

Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (CEH) Annual Conference. "What can DNA sequencing do for me?" - ultrahigh throughput DNA sequencing for ecology and environmental science. Oxford, 11 December 2007 (Mark Blaxter) PDF

Scottish Bioinformatics Forum: meeting on genome and gene annotation. "NEMBASE3: Origin and evolution of novel genes in the phylum Nematoda". Edinburgh, December 05 2007 (Mark Blaxter) PDF

EDIT "Future Scoping" meeting: Advanced sequencing technologies for taxonomy and biodiversity studies. Oxford, December 02 2007 (Mark Blaxter) PDF

New York University Department of Biological Sciences, November 05 2007: invited seminar on "Comparative Nematode Genomics". (Mark Blaxter) PDF

New England Molecular Evolutionary Biologists' annual meeting, November 02 2007, Queen's University, New York: "NEMBASE3: on the origins of genic novelty in nematode genomes". (Mark Blaxter) PDF

Banbury Centre meeting on the uses of DNA Barcodes in Evolutionary and Ecological Genetics, October 28-31 2007: "Defining Molecular Operational Taxonomic Units with DNA Barcode Data". (Mark Blaxter) PDF

Newton Institute/NESC Phyloinformatics Workshop, October 2007: Presentation on TaxMan and the concepts behind iPhy (Mark Blaxter). PDF

European Barcoding Meeting, Leiden, September 2007: A talk given by Mark Blaxter to the first meeting of European DNA barcoding researchers PDF

Society of Nematologists Symposium on the Evolution of Nematoda, San Diego, August 2007. Talk on "Ecdysozoa" by Mark Blaxter. PDF

Linnean Tercenternary: Talk given by Mark Blaxter at the Natural History Museum, London, June 2007, on "Molecular Operational Taxonomic Units and DNA taxonomy" PDF

DanBIF, May 2007 : a talk given by Mark Blaxter to the Danish Biodiversity Information Facility Workshop on 'Barcoding and Diversity' PDF

Maynooth, February 2007: a talk given by Mark Blaxter to the Department of Biological Sciences on "The Evolution of Nematode Genomes: Patterns and Processes" PDF (includes references)

Liverpool, May 2007: NERC Molecular Genetics Facilities Microarray course: Presentations on sequence informatics and sequence annotation for environmental/ecological microarrays. (Mark Blaxter) PDF1 PDF2