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Title: “Transcriptome-wide Identification of Proteins encoded by small ORFs in Vertebrates”

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Title: "Database management in Ruby on Rails"

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Title: "Evolution-Inspired Protein Engineering and Design: Learning from the Evolutionary History of Enzymes on the example of Haloalkane Dehalogenases"

Title: "Molecular evolution of ionontropic receptors in Blattodea"

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Topic: Osiris gene cluster

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Title: Dynamics of Gene Families Implicated in the Evolution of Termite Eusociality

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Title: "Insect genes & DomainWorld"

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Title: "Positive selection within proteins related to chemoperception in termites or
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Title: "Analysis of Gene Expression Dynamics during 
Murine Retinal Angiogenesis"

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Title: "Protein multifunctionality: Analysis of transcription factor binding"

Title: "Evolution of Enzyme Specificity in the Alkaline Phosphatase Superfamily"

Topic: "Neutral networks"

Title: "Dehalogenase Evolution"

Title: "Enabling Comparative Genomics within Blattodea"

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Title: "De Novo Gene Evolution: Methodological Challenges and Open Questions"

Title: "Curious case of Blattella gene count inflation - symptoms and remedies"

Title "Automated Improving of DomainANnotation (AIDAN)"

"Analysis and improvement of partial/split domains"

"Evolution of enzyme specificity in the alkaline phosphatase superfamily"

Title: "DomRates - a DomainWorld program"

"Evolutionary analyses of long non-coding RNAs in insects"

"Analysis and improvement of partial/split domains: Overview"

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Title: "Properties of putative bacterial <i>de novo</i> proteins"

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Cancelled

“Out of Pollen” Hypothesis for Origin of New Genes in Flowering Plants: Study from Arabidopsis thaliana

Evolution of DNA Specificity in a Transcription Factor Family Produced a New Gene Regulatory Module

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N.B. This talk will be on Wednesday!

This talk will now take place in the lecture hall.

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