Friday August 6 (all talks will be held in Room 1414 Molecular Biology Building, lunch and poster session will be in the atrium of MBB) 8:30 a.m. - 8:50 a.m. Introductions 8:50 a.m. - 9:20 a.m. Dr. Volker Brendel, "Computational identification of microRNAs and their targets", Iowa State University 9:20 a.m. - 9:50 a.m. Dr. Todd Scheetz, "Pseudogenes and Gene Conversion", University of Iowa 9:50 a.m. - 10:20 a.m. Coffee Break 10:20 a.m. - 10:50 a.m. Dr. Jackie Shanks, "Metabolic Flux Maps of Central Carbon Metabolism in Plants", Iowa State University 10:50 a.m. - 11:20 a.m. Dr. John Logsdon, "Phylogenomic analyses of the origins and evolution of meiosis", University of Iowa 11:20 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Lunch 12:00 p.m. - 12:30 p.m. Dr. Susan Carpenter, "Virus dynamics and evolution during persistent lentivirus infection", Iowa State University 12:30 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. Dr. Tom Bair, "Selection of 5' ESTs for full-insert sequencing", University of Iowa 1:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. Poster Session 3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Keith Dunker, "Intrinsic Disorders and Protein Function" Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Director, Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Indiana University School of Medicine 5:00 p.m. Adjournment