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Fall 2010 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
8/25	Paul Barton	Interfering with RNAi: Evasion of Antiviral Activity
	Michael Gamalinda	HOTAIR Just Got Hotter: lincRNAS Could Actually Link
9/1	Nathan Hsu	Circadian and Social Cues Regulate Ion Channel Trafficking
	James Hughes	DNA Zip Codes Control an Ancient Mechanism for Gene Targeting to the Nuclear Periphery ^{Ahmed, S. et al. DNA Zip Codes Control an Ancient Mechanism for Gene Targeting to the Nuclear Periphery. Nature Cell Biology 2, 111-118, 2010.}
9/8	Stephanie Hughes	Evolutionary Mirages: Illusions of Conserved Structures in Enhancers ^{Lusk RW, Eisen MB. Evolutionary Mirages: Selection on Binding Site Composition Creates the Illusion of Conserved Grammars in Drosophila Enhancers. PLoS Genet 6(1): e1000829, 2010.}
	Andrew Kehr	A Complex(in) Switch Mechanism for SNARE-Mediated Fusion ^{Giraudo, et. al. Alternative Zippering as an On-Off Switch for SNARE-Mediated Fusion. Science 323: 512-6, 2009.}
9/15	Andrew Markham	mRNA Quality Control: Evidence for a Novel De-capping Enzyme ^{Jiao X, Xiang S, Oh C, Martin C, Tong L, Kiledjian M. Identification of a quality-control mechanism for mRNA 5'-end capping. Nature:1-5, 2010.}
	Ashita Magal	NADPH: The Gatekeeper for Drosophila Apoptosis ^{Yang et. al. Metabolic regulation of Drosophila apoptosis through inhibitory phosphorylation of Dronc. The Embo Journal, 2010.}
9/22	Deborah Makin	Dissecting the CTD Code of RNA Polymerase II: Phosphorylation of Ser7 Across Protein-coding Genes ^{Tietjen JR, et al. Chemical-genomic dissection of the CTD code. Nat. Struct. Mol. Biol. 17: 1154-1161, 2010.}
	Ezgi Kunttas-Tatli	Testing Interactions between APC2 and Armadillo in Wnt Signaling
9/29	Sailatha Ravi	DNA Packaging Role of phi-29 Homomeric Ring ATPase ^{Moffitt et al., Intersubunit coordination in a homomeric ring ATPase, Nature, 2009.}
	Suchitra Ramachandran	Information is Wealth: Midbrain Dopamine Neurons Signal Preference for Advance Information about Upcoming Rewards ^{Bromberg-Martin E and Hikosaka O. Midbrain Dopamine Neurons Signal Preference for Advance Information about Upcoming Rewards. Neuron, 63(1):119-126, 2009 July 16.}
10/6	Simran Saini	Staph vs. Staph: A New Way to Attack Staphylococcus aureus ^{Iwase et al. Staphylococcus epidermidis Esp inhibits Staphylococcus aureus biofilm formation and nasal colonization. Nature, 2010.}
	Gregory Smith	Codon Pair Bias: A Powerful Tool in Rational Influenza Vaccine Design ^{Mueller, S. et al. Live attenuated influenza virus vaccines by computer-aided rational design. Nature Biotechnology 28, 723-726, 2010.}
10/13	Amanda Soohoo	With Curves like Those, I'll Go Inside: How Membrane Curvature Proteins Nucleate Endocytosis ^{Henne et. al. FCHo Proteins Are Nucleators of Clathrin-Mediated Endocytosis. Science 328, June 2010.}
	Ritika Tewari	Early to Late Endosome Transition ^{Dmitry Poteryaev,Sunando Datta,Karin Ackema, Marino Zerial and Anne Spang.Identification of the Switch in Early-to-Late Endosome Transition. Cell 141, 497–508, 30 Apr 2010.}
10/20	Idil Ulengin	To be or not to be Translocated: A Quality Control Pathway that Regulates Translocation during ER Stress Leads to Neurodegeneration ^{Rane NS et al. Reduced translocation of Nascent Prion protein during Er stress contributes to Neurodegeneration. Developmental Cell, 15:359-370, 2008.}
	Phu Van	Targeted Proteomics with Selected Reaction Monitoring ^{Picotti P, Bodenmiller B, Mueller L, Domon B, Aebersold R.Full dynamic range proteome analysis of S. cerevisiae by targeted proteomics. Cell, 138(4)795-806, 2009.}
10/27	Rachel Vistein	Hanging in the Balance: CDK5 and Calcineurin Regulate the Exocytosis of Presynaptic Vesicles ^{Kim SH and Ryan TA. CDK5 Serves as a Major Control Point in Neurotransmitter Release. August 2010.}
	Mingrui Zhang	Rescuing Vision in Retinitis Pigmentosa Patients ^{Busskamp et al. Genetic Reactivation of Cone Photoreceptors Restores Visual Responses in Retinitis Pigmentosa. Science (329), 413-417, 2010.}
11/3	Shantanu Bhattacharyya	NMR Structure of Single Chain Antibody Fragment M8
	Russell Schwartz, Ph.D.	How a Few Years of Work Can Save You a Millisecond ^{Shaw DE, Maragakis P, Lindorff-Larsen K, Piana S, Dror RO, Eastwood MP, Bank JA, Jumper JM, Salmon JK, Shan Y, Wriggers W. Atomic-Level Characterization of the Structural Dynamics of Proteins. Science:341-346, 15 October 2010.}
11/10 (12:30 - 1:40 p.m.)	Rotation 1 Presentations	Shanna Bowersox Effects of Chronic Morphine on Trafficking of the mu Opioid Receptor Advisor: Puthenveedu Ting Liu Two Small GTPases & One Big Question- Recycling Study of β2 Adrenergic Receptors Advisor: Puthenveedu Zhongling Sun Characterizing Neuronal Diversity in the Neocortex Advisor: Barth Madhumitha Ramesh Correlations in Intrinsic Properties between Sister and Non-sister Mitral Cells Advisor: Urban John Pettersson Osmotic Suppression of Giant Genome Phage λ Ejection Advisor: Evilevitch Han Lai Human Papillomavirus (HPV) Capsid Formation Advisor: Schwartz Sahil Sangani NMR Structure of Single-chain Antibody (ScFv) K7 Advisor: Rule
11/11 (12:30 - 1:40 p.m., Mellon Institute Social Room)	Rotation 1 Presentations	Yi Wang Altering Dye Binding with Directed Mutagenesis of a Fluorogen Activating Peptide Advisor: Bruchez Elizabeth Ransey Progress in Detection of 5HTR2A Internalization in Live Cells Using FAP-based Biosensor Technology Advisor: Jarvik Salini Konikkat The Role of DNA Replication and Cell Division in Re-wiring Developmental Gene Regulatory Networks Advisor: Ettensohn Jigarkumar Desai Adenomatous Polyposis Coli(APC): Understanding the Mode of Regulation of its Activity in a Cell-cycle Dependent Manner in the Drosophila Syncytial Blastoderm Advisor: McCartney Eugenio Gallo A Rapid and Systematic Approach for Detecting Protein-protein Interactions in Candida Albicans Advisor: Mitchell Olivia Molinar RNA Recognition by DNA Nanotags: A New Approach to Fluorescent Labeling of RNA Advisor: Armitage Karen Kormuth Expression and Purification of RNA Debranching Enzyme Advisor: Macbeth
11/17	Shantanu Ganguly	Quorum Sensing in Candida albicans Biofilms
	John Holleran	Cell Surface Detection of Proteins Implicated in Cystic Fibrosis
11/24	No Journal Club - Thanksgiving Week
12/1	Elmer Ker	Toward Spatial Control of Complex Tissues using Growth Factor Patterns and Fiber Alignment
	Aaron Mitchell, Ph.D.	Septins Skore

Fall 2010 Journal Club (Graduate Research Seminar)-Department of Biological Sciences - Carnegie Mellon University

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Fall 2010 Journal Club

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