May 3, 2009
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| John McCutcheon |
DAVIS—Molecular biologist John McCutcheon of the Center for Insect Science,
University of Arizona, will lecture on "Big Metabolic Contributions from the Small Bacterial Symbiont Genomes of Sap-Feeding Insects" on Monday, May 11 in 122 Briggs Hall.
The lecture, open to all, is set for 12:10 to 1 p.m. with 30 minutes available for any extended discussion. Host is Louie Yang of the UC Davis entomology faculty.
McCutcheon received a bachelor of science degree in biochemistry from the University of Wisconsin- Madison, a master's of science in human genetics from the University of Utah, and a Ph.D. in computational biology from Washington University in St.
Louis.
He is currently a PERT post-doctoral fellow in insect science at the University of Arizona, working with Nancy Moran. He focuses his research on the symbioses between insects and microbes, with particular emphasis on the genome evolution and metabolic contributions of bacterial symbionts in xylem-feeding insects.
For more information, contact Peter Cranston, UC Davis professor of entomology, at (530) 754-5803 or e-mail him at pscranston@ucdavis.edu.
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--Kathy Keatley Garvey
Communications specialist
UC Davis Department of Entomology
(530) 754-6894
