EEB Thursday Seminar: Genome variation and mutation in yeast mitochondrial genomes

Seminar Details
Thursday, March 29, 2018 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm

Speaker

Weilong Hao, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
Wayne State University

Location

1200 Chemistry Dow Lab

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Mitochondria are the powerhouse of the cell, and they encode their own DNA. Yeast mitochondrial DNAs are of striking difference in genome architectures and mutation rates. I will discuss some evolutionary and functional aspects of such fascinating variation regarding yeast mitochondrial DNAs