The smallest bacterial genomes characterised to date
Astrobiology
Friday 27 October 2006
from 16:00
to 17:30 at
Arrhenius
Labs
Speaker :
Dr. Anthony Poole (Department of Molecular Biology and Functional Genomics)
Abstract :
I will talk about the recent papers published in Science that
represent that smallest bacterial genomes characterised to date. My
aim will be to put these observations into a wider perspective - in
particular, I will focus on what this means in terms of our
understanding of the question of how small a genome can be, and how
many genes it takes to run an organism.
