Research Implications of Genome Sequencing Project Focus of Lawrence Science Lecture

APPLETON, WIS. -- David Arnosti, a biochemist at Michigan State University, will examine the latest landscape and discuss some of the research implications of the human genome sequencing project Monday, May 14 in a Lawrence University Science Hall colloquium.

A 1982 Lawrence graduate, Arnosti returns to Appleton to present, "The Human Genome Project -- Lewis & Clark or the Closing of a Frontier?" in Science Hall Room 102 at 4:15 p.m. The lecture is free and open to the public.

Last summer's announcement of the nearly complete sequencing of the human genome has provided extraordinary new insights and tools for research for evolutionary biologists, biomedical researchers and genetic engineers with potentially enormous impacts on society. Arnosti will discuss the likely directions for future explorers on the genome "frontier" and examine some of the opportunities awaiting scientific pioneers.

After graduating from Lawrence, Arnosti earned his Ph.D. at the University of Callifornia-Berkeley and conducted postdoctoral work in gene regulation at the University of Zurich. As an assistant professor of biochemistry at Michigan State University, he helps direct the Gene Expression in Development and Disease Focus Group, which studies basic mechanisms of gene regulation in fruit fly embryos.