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2008
Evolution and condition-specificity of non-coding transcription in yeast. Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution 2008: Barcelona, Spain. (poster)

Evolution, condition-specificity, and regulatory impact of untranslated RNA and transcriptional dark matter. Institute of Statistics, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan. (invited talk)

Evolution, condition-specificity, and regulatory impact of untranslated RNA and transcriptional dark matter. Deptartment of Clinical Laboratory Sciences and Medical Biotechnology, National Taiwan University, Tapei, Taiwan. (invited talk)

Evolution, condition-specificity, and regulatory impact of untranslated RNA and transcriptional dark matter. College of Life Science, National Taiwan University, Tapei, Taiwan. (invited talk)

Deciphering the contribution of cis-regulatory variants to gene expression patterns. Midwest Symposium of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois (poster)

Deciphering the contribution of cis-regulatory variants to gene expression patterns. Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson (invited talk)

Deciphering the contribution of cis-regulatory variants to gene expression patterns. Institute for Integrative Genome Biology, University of California, Riverside (invited talk)

 Deciphering the contribution of cis-regulatory variants to gene expression patterns. Institute for Genomics and Systems Biology, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, Illinois (invited talk)

 Deciphering the contribution of cis-regulatory variants to gene expression patterns. Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, State University of New York, Stony Brook (invited talk)

2005
Correlation between transcription factor binding site heterogeneity and expression heterogeneity. The Developmental Basis of Evolutionary Change, Chicago, Illinois (talk).

Modeling the stability and patterns of protein interactions. 13th Annual International conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB 2005), Detroit, Michigan. (poster)

Computational Challenges for Large Virus Phylogenies. Virus Evolution and Tree of Life meeting, NSF National Evolutionary Synthesis Center, Durham, North Carolina (talk).

2003
Retroids in Archaea: implications for the origins of introns. Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution 2003: Newport Beach, CA. (talk)

Retroids in Archaea: implications for the origins of introns. Gordon Conference on the Origin of Life, Lewiston, Maine. (poster)

2002
Early evolution according to reverse transcriptase. Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution, Sorrento, Italy. (poster)

2001
The reverse transcriptase phylogeny and root: implications for retroid evolution. Evolution 2001, Knoxville, Tennessee. (talk)

Reverse transcriptase phylogeny using parsimony: dramatic implications for retroid evolution. Cladistics Society of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan. (talk)

2000
Eye regression during mammalian evolution: comparative analysis of Rx/rax homeobox gene in an eyeless mouse strain and the blind mole rat Spalax ehrenbergi. Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution 2000, New Haven, Connecticut. (talk); 20th Annual Great Lakes Mammalian Development Meeting, Toronto, Ontario. (poster); Evolution 2000, Bloomington, Indiana. (poster)

1999
Variation in chorus frogs, Pseudacris triseriata, in Iowa. Annual Meeting of the Iowa Academy of Science, Ames, Iowa. (talk)