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UF Genetics Institute - International Activity

Terence Flotte

1. Sponsoring Dr. Indra Vasil's international congress on plant biology;
2. Invited speaker for the Irish Alpha One Foundation on Oct. 12-13, 2001 in Dublin, Ireland.

Michael Miyamoto

Serving as the local host for Bjarne Knudsen, a graduate student studying at UF labs for a year and a half as part of his Ph.D. in bioinformatics at the University of Aarhaus, Denmark.

Connie Mulligan

Involved in several ongoing international collaborations, including:

1. A long-term collaboration with Dr. Njamhishig Sambuughin (Mongolian Medical University, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia) studying the genetic variation in Mongolian indigenous populations. Sambuughin is interested in the use of isolated populations, such as Mongolians, to study certain neurological disorders and has had great success in both research and funding in this area. Currently, plans are underway for a field expedition to Mongolia in order to collect additional blood samples and to teach a course in molecular techniques in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. Mulligan has a NSF grant proposal in review to allow for the enlargement of the current research project.
Collaboratiing with Dr. Larissa Tarskaia (Sakha Institute of Health, Yakutsk, Russia) to study genetic variation and investigate complex disease in indigenous populations in Siberia. Dr. Tarskaia will begin working as a visiting professor at UF in winter 2001. Mulligan is seeking funding for several collecting trips to Siberia.
A 10-year collaboration with Dr. Eldredge Bermingham of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama City, Panama studying the genetic diversity of Panamanian populations. Mulligan began this work as a postdoctoral associate in Bermingham's lab and that research has become the foundation for her current research program.

Frank Rosenzweig

Since last Spring I've been part of a program supported through the National Science Foundation's Biocomplexity initiative. This program was entitled "Ecological and Evolutionary Functional Genomics." There were symposia at the Society for the Study of Evolution meetings in Knoxville, TN (June) and the European Society for Evolutionary Biology in Aarhus, Denmark (August).

I was co-Chair (with Martin Feder, Univ Chicago) of the ESEB Symposium. Also, I was keynote speaker for the EMBO Workshop in Bioinformatics at Uppsala University (Sweden) last August. Lastly, I have been invited to speak at the NSF-IGERT Symposium on Evolution of Genetic Networks (Eugene, OR) Oct 12-13.

This post September I was supposed to speak at an E-U meeting Aussois, FR and at a genomics conference in Lausanne, Switzerland. However, because of the tragic events of Sept 11th, I did not make those engagements.

Doug Soltis

Scientific Advisor, International Foundation for Science, 1999-present

Member of the editorial board of Plant Species Biology (an international journal based in Japan), 1997-present

Fulbright Distinguished Professor, 2000-2001

Pam am I are hosting a number of foreign visitors, two of whom have Fulbrights --please add this info.

Also, I was involved as head of a committee on polyploid evolution that met at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew--UK in the spring of 2001. We are also organizing an international conerence on polyploidy that will take place in two years in the UK.

Pam Soltis

1. Fulbright Distinguished Faculty Fellow to UK, 2000-01

2. Editorships of journals with international circulation (but based in US):
Assoc. Editor, Systematic Biology
Assoc. Editor, Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

3. Editorship of journal based overseas:
Assoc. Editor, Taxon (Vienna)

4. Hosting sabbatical visitor from Brazil (2001-02)

5. Hosting student visitors from Uruguay (on a student Fulbright Award, 2000-03), Norway (on a student Fulbright Award, 2001-02) and Spain; hosting post-doc visitor from Korea (Korean government fellowship, 2001-02) and will host a post-doc visitor from Argentina in 2002-03

6. Ongoing research collaborations with colleagues in the UK, Belgium, Germany, Czech Republic, and Russia

7. Invited lectures at numerous institutions in Europe, Latin America, and Canada

Michele R. Tennant

Molecular information services at the University of Florida, by Michele Tennant. Invited speaker, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, 27 March .2

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