Dr. Wen-Hsiung Li, the division director of Bioinformatics at the Genomics Research Center, will be giving the Clark Cockerham Lecture at North Carolina State University on November 8, 2007. Cockerham was a world leading biostatistician in the 1970s and 1980s. He was highly regarded in population genetics and statistical genetics. NC State and Iowa State were traditionally the two top centers in biostatistics. Cockerham maintained the leading status of NC State. He was a member of US National Academy of Sciences. The Cockerham Lecture is held to celebrate the life and work of C. Clark Cockerham (1921-1996), formerly Distinguished University Professor of Statistics and Genetics, who directed the Program Project in Quantitative Genetics at North Carolina State University from 1960 to 1990.
Dr. Li is widely regarded as the most influential leader in the study of the molecular evolution of genes and populations. He has made significant contributions related to the rates and patterns of DNA sequence evolution and their application to the molecular clock hypothesis. His research focused on the comparative genomics has draw great attention in scientific field. Currently, Dr. Li’s work mainly emphasizes on the regulatory evolution, especially the trans and cis variation effect in yeast evolution, and the transcription factor binding site prediction and its evolution.
Detail Cockerham Lecture information can be found in NC State University Website