| SWU
News:
October 8, 2004
Southern Wesleyan University holds biomedical
seminar
CENTRAL,
S.C. — Southern Wesleyan University presents a biomedical
seminar based on how genetics contribute to the causes
of disease in human populations.
The
seminar, Genetics
and the Causation of Alzhemier's Disease,
will be at Southern Wesleyan University’s Ellenburg
Lecture Hall on Oct.15, from 2:30 to 4 p.m. It will be
presented by Dr. Julianne Collins, assistant research
scientist in Genetic Epidemiology at the Greenwood Genetic
Center in Greenwood.
Dr.
Collins specializes in designing and analyzing linkage
and association studies at Greenwood Genetic Center. She
provides statistical assistance for researchers and is
involved in educational programs at the center. She also
assists in grant-writing and designing and managing databases.
Dr. Collins’ research interests include the elucidation
of the causes of mental retardation, birth defects, autism
and Alzheimer’s disease. She also is a member of
the American Society of Human Genetics, the International
Genetic Epidemiology Society, the Society for Epidemiological
Research, the American Statistical Association and the
National Birth Defects Prevention Network.
Dr.
Collins has published a number of articles on topics such
as autism and mutations in genes.
The
seminar is funded as part of a $1,000 grant from South
Carolina Biomedical Research Infrastructure Network. The
goals of the SC-BRIN seminar awards are:
- to
promote inter-institutional educational and research
collaborations among faculty and students of South Carolina’s
biomedical research and academic institutions.
- to
enhance educational and research programs at Outreach
and Mentored institutions of the SC-BRIN program. (SWU
is an Outreach institution.)
- to
serve as a mechanism for recruiting outstanding undergraduate
students to biomedical graduate research programs at
South Carolina colleges and universities; and
to advertise SC-BRIN programs, informing faculty and
students of the goals, activities and resources available
through these programs.
For
details, visit www.scidea.org.
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