Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Preface

Part 1 – Research Biographies

Manuel Alatorre-Meda
Ayman Antoun
Laura Bertola
Alejandro Daniel Bolz¨¢n
Leticia Cedillo Barron
Olga Fedorenko
Brian Grant Fox
Akira Inoue
Christopher D. Krause
Shawn Larson
Fulvio Lauretani
Gabriela Mellado-Sanchez
Yuanjie Niu
Maria del Mar Ortega-Villaizan Romo
Myung-Geol Pang
Manca Pirc
Hanna Rakytyanska
Alexander Rotshtein
Natalya V. Semiletova
Yuriy Shckorbatov
Motonori Tomita
Ping Yu
Stanislav Ziaran
Nadya Zotova

Part 2 – Research Summaries on Genetics

Animal Genomes Under the Focus of Cytogenetics

Bacteriophages and Biofilms: Ecology, Phage Therapy, Plaques

Birth Defects: Issues on Prevention and Promotion

Cell Determination during Hematopoiesis

Cell, Gene, and Molecular Therapy: New Concepts

Contributions of African American Scientists to the Fields of Science, Medicine, and Inventions

DNA Methylation in Plants

DNA Research, Genetics and Cell Biology

Immunogenetics: Tolerance and Autoimmunity

Interactions of Herbicide Atrazine with DNA

Lecture Notes on Computational Mutation

Molecular Polymorphism of Man: Structural and Functional Individual Multiformity of Biomacromolecules

Phylogeography: It’s Importance in Insect Pest Control

Sensing the Change: From Molecular Genetics to Personalized Medicine

The CD Spectra of Double-Stranded DNA Liquid-Crystalline Dispersions

The Power of the Gene: The Origin and Impact of Genetic Disorders

Vitamin A and Lung Development

Computational Metabolomics

Discrete Optimization for TSP-like Genome Mapping Problems

Flax Lipids: Classes, Biosynthesis, Genetics and the Promise of Applied Genomics for Understanding and Altering of Fatty Acids

Hominin Evolution: Genetics and Behavior

Alignment-Free Models in Plant Genomics: Theoretical, Experimental, and Legal Issues

The Immunogenetics of Allergic Sensitization: Selection of the IgE Repertoire

A Cultural Framework for Understanding Behavior Genetics

From Structure to Disease: Differential CD3 Usage in the Human and Mouse T Cell Antigen Receptor Determines the Impact of CD3 Deficiencies on T Cell Development

A Unified Theory of Effective Migration Rate and the Essence of Gene Flow

Compulsive Behavior in the Marketplace and in the Workplace: An Examination of Causal Factors

Total Metallothionein Quantification by Reversed-Phase High-Performance Liquid Chromatography Coupled to Fluorescence Detection after Monobromobimane Derivatization

Immunoinformatics: The Way Forward

Plant Cell Wall Functional Genomics: Novelties from Proteomics

Horizontal Gene Transfer in the Host-Directed Evolution of Root Nodule Bacteria

Cell Cycle Checkpoint-Controls and Cancer

Noninvasive Screening Methods for Chromosomal Aberrations in Early Pregnancy

Monosomy 20 in the Karyotypes of Myeloid Malignancies Is Usually the Result of Misclassification of Unbalanced Chromosome 20 Abnormalities

Preimplantation Genetic Aneuploidy Screening

Down Syndrome and Alzheimer Disease: A ¡°Multi-Hit¡± Hypothesis based on Multiple Contributing Factors Resulting in Pleotrophic Consequences

Detection of Aneuploidy and Mosaicism by Microarray-Based Comparative Genomic Hybridization (aCGH)

The Impact of Frameshift Mutations

Frame-Shift Mutations in BRCA1 and BRCA2 Genes in Turkish Families with Breast and/or Ovarian Cancer

Frameshift Mutation in Tropical Diseases

Can a Missense Mutation Have the Same Effect as Frame-Shift Mutations?

Frameshift Mutation and Hemoglobin Disorders

Frameshift Mutation and Interaction of Molecules in Pharmacology and Immunology: A Bioinformatics Approach

Studies on Epigenetic Control of B Cell Functions Using the DT40 Cell Line

Some Methods for Plant Genomic DNA Research

Plastid Genome Variation and Selective Constraint in Species of the Parasitic Plant Genus Cuscuta

AtGenExpress, the First Large-Scale Transcriptome Data Set in Arabidopsis: Project Summary and its Practical Applications

Also Medicine Needs Evolution! What Clinical Sciences Can Learn from Evolution Biology

Genetic and Biochemical Markers of Serotonergic and Catecholaminergic Systems in Neuropsychiatric Disorders

The Weaver Gene Expression Affects Differently to the Generation, Survival and Settling Patterns of Midbrain and Cerebellar Neurons

An Overview of Genetic Factors and Environmental Triggers in the Pathogenesis of Tourette¡¯s Syndrome

The Importance of Combining Genetic and Ecological Data to Understand Patterns of Dispersal in Snakes

Comparative Proteogenomics: A New Dimension That Cannot Be Further Ignored

Genome-Wide Survey and Comparative Study of Helicase Superfamily Members in Sequenced Genomes

Genetics and Molecular Biology of Kainate Receptors

Biomarker Discovery in Major Psychiatric Disorders: Approaches, Limitations and Future Directions

New Technique Established for Tracing Seeded Cells during Construction of Tissue-Engineered Connective Tissue in Vitro

Methodological Aspects of Gene Flow Estimation in Natural Populations

Ultrasound Microbubbles and Needleless Jet Injector for Gene Transfer of Naked Plasmid DNA

Dispersal in Fungi

Genetic Structuring Across the Reef Crest in the Threatened Blue Coral Helioporacoerulea (Helioporidae, Octacorallia) in Shiraho Reef, Southwest Japan

Regulatory-Target Gene Relationships in Allopolyploid and Hybrid Genomes

Cytogenetic Mapping and Contribution to the Knowledge of Animal Genomes

Somatic Cell Count in Cow’s Milk: Factors, Diagnosis and Breeding Implications

Cost/Benefit of Mutation Induction under PARP1 Deficiency: From Genomic Instability to Therapy

Analysis and Visualization of Genotyping Data for Autozygosity Mapping and Other Genetic Mapping Projects

Common Characteristics of Cancer Cell and Logical Corroborations of Its Hybrid Essence

Alkylation Chemotherapy: Mechanistic Potential and Pitfalls

Ionizing Radiation, DNA Double Strand Break and Mutation

Reprogramming of Somatic Cells

Soybean Functional Genomics through Reverse Genetics: Opportunities and Challenges

Cell Necrosis Pathway in Coffee Cell Suspension Culture Is Trigger by Two Independent Sets of Signals

Functional Genomics of Early Earth Microbial Communities

Effective Contribution of the nDart1 Transposon-Tagging System to Rice Functional Genomics

Assessment and Testing by Genoproteomics and Therapeutic Planning of Hereditary Ovarian Cancer

Selection Overrules Gene Flow at ¨DEvolution Canyons,¡¬ Israel

Gene Libraries and Functional Genomic Analysis of Entomopathogenic Nematode Parasitism

Methods for the Investigation of Chromsome Organization

Role of CCDC26, a Novel Non-Coding RNA, in Human Acute Myeloid Leukemia

The Deleterious Effect of Missense Mutations on Pre-mRNA Splicing

Bioinformatical Approaches for Studies on Replication-Associated and Transcription-Associated Mutational Pressure, Interpretations and Applications

Genetic Drift in Recent Human Evolution?

Trans-Translation by tmRNA and SmpB: A Bacterial Quality Control System of Translation

The Changing Face of Genetic Counseling in the 21st Century

Delayed Stochastic Models of Genetic Switches: Noise, Coupling, Differentiation Patterns and Evolvability

Advances in Genetics Research: Colorectal Cancer

Lactase Phenotype and Relationships to Diseases

The Identification of Dingoes in a Background of Hybrids

hGH/PL Locus as a Model to Study the Effects of Cell Genome on Transitory Expression Systems

A Meta-Analytical Approach in Mutant Mice to Study the Genes Involved in Hyperactive Syndromes and Anxiety

RNAi-Mediated RNA Degradation: Future Prospects of Longevity Enhancement

Abnormal Chromosome 1 with HSR Insertions in Natural Populations of House Mouse (Mus Musculus)

Degradation of Hypo-Modified tRNA in Thermus Thermophilus, an Extreme-Thermophilic Eubacterium

Minimal Cellular Switches

Phylogeography of Finches and Sparrows

Approaches to the Study of the Genetics of Behavioural Variation Using Mice and Rats

Genetic and Genomic Resources for Common Carp Cyprinus Carpio, An Economically Important Farmed Freshwater Fish

Bovine Leukemia Virus (BLV), Proposed Control and Eradication Programs by Marker Assisted Breeding of Genetically Resistant Cattle

Pig Genomics and Pig Transgenesis in Biomedical Research

Epigenetic Regulation in Bovine Cells: Nutrient-Induced Modulation of Gene Expression and Cellular Functions

Examining Polymorphisms Affecting Transcription and Translation of Genes Linked to Marbling in Beef Cattle

Genetic Resources and Commercial Cattle Breeding in the Tropics – Are Yesterday¡¯s Breeds the Answer to 21st Century Problems?