应江苏省生物多样性与生物技术重点实验室的邀请，美国Arizona State University生命科学学院的Sudhir Kumar教授将于2013年6月2日访问我校并作报告。欢迎感兴趣的老师和同学参加。

报告人：Sudhir Kumar博士/教授（美国Arizona State University）

报告题目：RelTime: Next generation tools for building the TimeTree of life

时间：2013年6月2日（星期天）上午10点

地点：生科院3楼圆形会议室

Sudhir Kumar博士简介：

Sudhir Kumar, Ph.D., is a Regents’ and Foundation Professor in the School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University (Tempe, USA). He also directs the Center for Evolutionary Medicine and Informatics in the Biodesign Institute.  He has published over 135 research articles in molecular phylogenetics, phylomedicine, and evolutionary bioinformatics. He has been a major architect of the MEGA (Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis) software and TimeTree database of molecular divergence times. He has also co-authored two books: Molecular Evolution and Phylogenetics [2000] and The TimeTree of Life [2009].  He received an Innovation Award in Functional Genomics from the Burroughs-Wellcome Fund (2000) and is a fellow of AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2009). He is currently the President of the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution (SMBE) and serving as the Editor-in-Chief of its journal Molecular Biology and Evolution. He holds degrees in Genetics (doctoral), Biology (masters) and Engineering (bachelors).