The Dr. John T. Macdonald Foundation Department of Human Genetics and the John P. Hussman Institute for Human Genomics will host a seminar by Jacqueline Hecht, professor of pediatrics and director of the Pediatric Research Center at the University of Texas Medical School at Houston. Hecht will present “Pseudoachondroplasia: Gene Discovery to Potential Therapies” on Tuesday, February 23 at 4 p.m. in the Mailman Center for Child Development, eighth-floor auditorium.

The Dr. John T. Macdonald Foundation Department of Human Genetics and John P. Hussman Institute for Human Genomics will host a seminar by Juan I. Young, assistant professor in the Dr. John T. Macdonald Foundation Department of Human Genetics. Young will present “Epigenetics Over Epigenetics: Environmental Attenuation of Disease Course in a Mouse Model of Rett Syndrome” on Tuesday, February 2 at 4 p.m. in the Mailman Center for Child Development, eighth-floor auditorium.

The Dr. John T. Macdonald Foundation Department of Human Genetics and John P. Hussman Institute for Human Genomics will host a seminar by Scott Williams, professor in the Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics and Center for Human Genetics Research at Vanderbilt University. Williams will present “Genetic Analysis of African Populations: Inferring History and Mapping Disease Genes” on Tuesday, January 19 at 4 p.m. in the Mailman Center for Child Development, eighth-floor auditorium. For more information, contact Lourdes Acosta at [email protected] or call 305-243-2559.

The Dr. John T. Macdonald Foundation Department of Human Genetics and John P. Hussman Institute for Human Genomics will host a seminar by Stephan Züchner, associate professor of human genetics and neurology and director of the Center for Human Molecular Genomics. Züchner will present ”Next-Generation Sequencing: Novel Applications for Molecular Genetics” on Tuesday, December 15 at 4 p.m. in the Lois Pope LIFE Center, seventh-floor auditorium. For more information, contact Lourdes Acosta at 305-243-2559 or at [email protected].

William K. Scott, professor and vice chair for education and training at the Dr. John T. Macdonald Foundation Department of Human Genetics and John P. Hussman Institute for Human Genomics at the Miller School of Medicine, will present “Common Variants in Innate Immunity Genes Influence Susceptibility to Pulmonary Tuberculosis in Three Populations” on Friday, December 18 at 12 p.m. in the Gautier Building, Room 118.

The Dr. John T. Macdonald Foundation Department of Human Genetics and the John P. Hussman Institute for Human Genomics will host a seminar by Derek Dykxhoorn, assistant professor at the Dr. John T. Macdonald Foundation Department of Human Genetics. Dykxhoorn will present “miRNAs, Morphology, and Metastasis” on Tuesday, December 1 at 4 p.m. in the Mailman Center for Child Development, eighth-floor auditorium.