Time :

4pm, Sunday, Mar 22, 2009

Speaker: 陳豐奇 (visiting scholar at bioeng, ucsd)

Division of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, 

National Health Research Institutes

http://w3.nhri.org.tw/nhri_org/bs/biostat/e_fcc.htm

Place:

Yingja and Fattys' new house.

Title:

Between human and chimpanzee: how different are we from the “ape”?

Abstract 

In this talk, I will give an overview of recent findings in human genome evolution. Comparative genomics studies between human and chimpanzee are considered helpful in answering the ultimate question: what makes us human? The genomic sequences between the two species were regarded almost identical, with ~99% similarity. However, accumulating evidence suggests that the genomes have been changing dynamically at the sub-chromosomal and finer scales through the past  4~6 million years of human-chimpanzee divergence. Some recent studies have tried to link such genetic changes with phenotypic characteristics, only with limited success. Notwithstanding the frustratingly small advances, I envision that the comparative studies will continue to prosper, for such studies are not only evolutionarily meaningful but also biomedically  important.

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