Spring 2013 Journal Club
(Graduate Research Seminar)
Journal club is held in the Conference Room of the Mellon Institute at 12:30 p.m. on Wednesdays unless otherwise indicated.
Date |
Speaker |
Topic |
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| 1/16 | Ezgi Kunttas-Tatli |
To Dimerize or Not to Dimerize, that is the Question: Role of Dimerization in APC Protein |
| Deborah Makin |
RNA Interference Screens of Trans-Acting Factors for Recursive Splicing in Drosophila |
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| 1/23 | Suchitra Ramachandran |
Statistical Learning of Visual Sequences in Monkey Inferotemporal Cortex depends on the Bidirectional Conditional Probability of the Images |
| Simran Saini |
Mechanism of Membrane Fusion by the Atlastin GTPase |
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| 1/30 | Amanda Soohoo | Tell me MOR, Tell me MOR: Does your Endocytosis Last Really Long |
| Gregory Smith | Applying Cellular Crowding Models to Simulations of Virus Capsid Assembly in vitro |
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| 2/6 |
Ritika Tewari |
Understanding the Mechanism of GPP130 Sensitivity to Manganese |
| Idil Ulengin |
Dissecting the Catalytic Machinery of Atlastin GTPase | |
| 2/13 |
Rotation 2 Presentations |
Anagha Kadam Ceren Tuzmen Brendan Redler Amanda Willard Caitlin Winkler |
| 2/14 (2 - 3:15 p.m., Mellon Institute Social Room) |
Rotation 2 Presentations |
Nicholas Audette Berquin Feese Vinitha Ganesan Lina Song Yizhu Lin Swati Venkat Malachi Blundon |
| 2/20 |
Phu Van |
Optimizing 2DE Protein Gels for Detection with the SIGI |
| Rachel Vistein |
Sequence of Events: Adrenergic Receptor Tail Sequences Direct Recycling |
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| 2/27 | Mingrui Zhang |
Far-red and NIR Fluoromodules for Multi-color in vivo Imaging |
| Shanna Bowersox |
A Tail of Two Receptors: A Pain Receptor Increases Recycling of the Mu-opioid Receptor | |
| 3/6 | Jigarkumar Desai |
Regulatory Role of Glycerol in Candida albicans Biofilm Formation |
| Olivia Molinar | Novel Roles for Adenomatous polyposis coli Proteins in Actin Assembly |
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| 3/13 | No Journal Club Due to Spring Break |
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| 3/20 | Gino Gallo |
Engineering Fluorogen-Activating-Proteins as Universal Affinity Biosensors |
| Salini Konikkat | Knitting Together the Ribosome – How Assembly Factors Facilitate Tertiary Interactions during Ribosome Assembly | |
| 3/27 | Han Lai |
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| 4/3 | Madhumitha Ramesh | You know a Man by his Friends: Understanding the Roles of the ITS2 Neighborhood in Ribosome Biogenesis |
| Karen Kormuth | Exploring New Perspectives of Guanine Quadruplex Biology within Ribosomal DNA | |
| 4/10 | John Pettersson |
Substrate Plasticity of GSTA1-1: Single Molecule Characterization of a Disobedient Enzyme |
| Veronica Hinman |
On the Immortality of Television Sets: “Function” in the Human Genome According to the Evolution-free Gospel of ENCODE Graur, D., Zheng, Y., Price, N., Azevedo, R.B., Zufall, R.A., and Elhaik, E. (2013). Genome Biol. Evol. , doi:10.1093/gbe/evt028 | in press. Ward LD, Kellis M. Evidence of abundant purifying selection in humans for recently acquired regulatory functions. Science. 2012 Sep 28;337(6102):1675-8. Epub 2012 Sep 5. |
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| 4/17 | Elizabeth Ransey |
Comprehensive Mechanistic and Structural Analysis of an RNA-Lariat Debranching Enzyme |
| Sahil Sangani |
From Thermodynamics to NMR Dynamics of Specific Protein-DNA Interactions |
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| 4/24 |
Zhongling Sun |
Differential Gene Expression in Primary Mesenchyme Cells Underlies Skeletogenesis in the Sea Urchin Embryo |
| Tina Lee |
Actin in the Nucleus |
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| 5/1 | Yi Wang | Directed Molecular Evolution to Diversify Malachite Green Activating Peptide |
| Ting Liu | Probing Viral DNA Structures - What Renders Fluidity to Rigid Viral Genome |
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| 5/9 (11 a.m. - 12:15 p.m., Mellon Institute Social Room) |
Rotation 3 Presentations |
Anagha Kadam Nicholas Audette Yizhu Lin Swati Venkat Lina Song Malachi Blundon |
| 5/10 (11 a.m. - 12:15 p.m., Mellon Institute Social Room) |
Rotation 3 Presentations |
Vinitha Ganesan Caitlin Winkler Amanda Willard Brendan Redler Berquin Feese Ceren Tuzmen |