Fall 2006 Journal Club
(Graduate Research Seminar)
Journal club is held in the Conference Room of the Mellon Institute at
3:30 on Wednesdays unless otherwise indicated.
Date |
Speaker |
Topic |
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| Sept. 13 | Michael Chen | "Another way to build a fence"
Vagin et al (July 2006). A Distinct Small RNA Pathway Silences Selfish Genetic Elements in the Germline. Science 313:320 |
| Adam Linstedt | "Rules of disengagement (If only it was this simple in Iraq)"
Tsou & Stearns (Aug2006). Mechanism limiting centrosome duplication to once per cell cycle. Nature 442:947. |
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| Sept. 20 | Corey Flynn | "How do you build a pinwheel?"
Highly ordered arrangement of single neurons in orientation pinwheels.² |
| Chris Fried | "When good actin goes bad"
Requirement for Coronin 1 in T Lymphocyte Trafficking and Cellular Homeostasis. Science, Vol. 313, 11 August 2006, pp. 839-842. |
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| Sept. 27 | Ken Hovis | "TAARgeting A New Dimension of Olfaction"
A second class of chemosensory receptors in the olfactory epithelium. |
| Nathan Urban | "Choices, choices"...
"Interchromosomal Interactions and Olfactory Receptor Choice" Cell, Vol 126, 403-413, 28 July 2006 Stavros Lomvardas,1 Gilad Barnea,1 David J. Pisapia,1 Monica Mendelsohn,1 |
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| Oct. 4 | CANCELLED | |
| Oct. 11 | Bistra Iordanova | "The life of cells in living animals"
"Metabolic biotinylation of cell surface receptors for in vivo imaging" |
| Bruce Armitage | "Better living through chemistry"
"Small-molecular activation of procaspase-3 to caspase-3 as a personalized anticancer strategy" Putt, KS et al Nature Chemical Biology 2006, 2(10), 543-550. |
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| Oct. 18 | Shu Ying Kwan | "Cell posturepedics: What's your cell's sleep number?" |
| Deepak Kana Kadayakkara | "on the memory TRAIL..."
The generation of protective memory-like CD8+ T cells during homeostatic proliferation requires CD4+ T cells. Hamilton SE et al. Nat Immunol. 2006 May;7(5):475-81. Epub 2006 Apr 9. |
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| Oct. 25 | Connor Murphy | "MAXimum security"
Anke Kiessling, Bianca Sperl, Angela Hollis, Dirk Eick, and Thorsten Berg. Selective Inhibition of c-Myc/Max Dimerization and DNA Binding by Small Molecules. Chemistry & Biology 13, 745–751, July 2006. |
| Eric Ahrens | "Metal-head songbirds and neuronal plasticity"
Van Meir et al. In vivo MR imaging of the seasonal volumetric and |
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| Nov. 1 | Nina Senutovitch | "The big kizuna" |
| Alison Barth | "Organ-specific gene evolution and divergence in chimp-human lineages" | |
| Nov. 8 | Tara Sharma | "Canonical Wnt signaling: an unexpected new player"
The role of microtubule actin cross-linking factor 1 (MACF1) in the Wnt signaling pathway Hui-Jye Chen, Chung-Ming Lin, Chyuan-Sheng Lin, Raul Perez-Olle, Conrad L. Leung and Ronald K.H. Lie 2006; Genes & Dev. |
| Fred Lanni | "Actin - arrgh!" | |
| Nov. 15 | Melissa Witzberger | "Rok on!"
Hickson, J.R.X. et al. 2006. Rho kinase controls cell shape changes during cytokinesis. Current Biology 16: 359-370. |
| Kristen Yankura | REGΓ-ulating stability of SRC-3: a role for the proteasome in cell growth
Li,X. et al. 2006. The SRC-3/AIB1 coactivator is degraded in a ubiquitin-and ATP-independent manner by the REGΓ proteasome. Cell 124:381-392 |
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| Nov. 22 | NO JOURNAL CLUB | |
| Nov. 29 (3:30 - 5pm) |
Rotation Reports | 1. Margarida Anjos, Advisor: Charles Ettensohn
2. Shantanu Bhattacharyya, Advisor: Gordon Rule 3. Dara Brown, Advisor: Justin Crowley 4. Sarah Capek, Advisor: Peter Berget 5. Saksham Chandra, Advisor: Nathan Urban 6. Saketh Chemuru Muni, Advisor: Peter Berget 7. Shantanu Ganguly, Advisor: Alison Barth 8. John Holleran, Advisor: Jon Jarvik 9. Elmer Ker, Advisor: Charles Ettensohn |
| Dec. 1 (3:30-5pm) |
Rotation Reports | 1. Nicole Marthaler, Advisor: Alison Barth
2. Brenna McCauley, Advisor: John Woolford 3. Parker Mills, Advisor: Robert Murphy 4. Jeanne Morin-Leisk, Advisor: Adam Linstedt 5. Kalin Vasilev, Advisor: Alam Waggoner 6. Jing Wen, Advisor: Eric Ahrens 7. Smita Yadav, Advisor: Russell Schwartz 8. Qi Yan, Advisor: Eric Ahrens 9. Bradley Yates, Advisor: Jon Jarvik |
| Dec. 6 | Anupam Goyal | |
| Justin Crowley |