Ashburner to deliver Nieuwland lectures | News | Notre Dame News | University of Notre Dame Skip To Content Skip To Navigation Skip To Search University of Notre Dame Notre Dame News Experts ND in the News Subscribe About Us Home Contact Search Menu Home › News › Ashburner to deliver Nieuwland lectures Ashburner to deliver Nieuwland lectures Published: September 13, 2004 Author: William G. Gilroy Michael Ashburner, professor of biology at the University of Cambridge and former joint-head of the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI), will be the featured speaker Thursday and Friday (Sept. 16 and 17) for the annual Nieuwland Lectures in Biology at the University of Notre Dame.p. Ashburners research interests lie in the structure and evolution of genomes. Most of his research has been with the model organism Drosophila melanogaster, about which he has written the standard research text, “Drosophila: A Laboratory Handbook.” He was a member of the consortium that sequenced the entire genome of this fly.p. Ashburners opening lecture, “The Natural History of Fly Genomes,” will be presented at 4 p.m. Thursday in Room 283 of the Galvin Life Sciences Center.p. His second lecture, “Ontologies for Biologists— Coping with the Data Deluge,” is scheduled for 4 p.m. Friday, also in 283 Galvin.p. Both lectures are free and open to the public.p. TopicID: 6900 Home Experts ND in the News Subscribe About Us For the Media Contact Office of Public Affairs and Communications Notre Dame News 500 Grace Hall Notre Dame, IN 46556 USA Facebook Twitter Instagram YouTube Pinterest © 2022 University of Notre Dame Search Mobile App News Events Visit Accessibility Facebook Twitter Instagram YouTube LinkedIn