Fall 2011 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 8/31 | Ashrifia Adomako-Ankomah |
Regulation of Skeletal Morphogenesis by Cell-cell Interactions in the Sea Urchin Embryo |
| Kaitlyn Dykstra | Yip1A Cycling Between the ER and Golgi is not Required for its ER Structuring Function |
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| 9/7 | Anmol Grover | Genetically Tagged pH Biosensor for Endosomal Trafficking |
| Marcel Bruchez, Ph.D. |
Using Generative Models to Enhance Superresolution Imaging | |
| 9/14 | Tim Jarvela | GRASPing Golgi Ribbon Maintenance |
| Merissa Remus | ERK Activation in the Nucleus Accumbens: Selectivity by Subregion, Type of Motivationally-relevant Stimulus, and Cell Phenotype |
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| 9/21 | Ayshwarya Subramanian | Understanding Tumor Progression using Phylogenetics |
| Brooke McCartney, Ph.D. |
Stories from the End of the Filament: APC2 Dependent Regulation of the Actin Cytoskeleton | |
| 9/28 | Shana Bowersox | Connections Between Nicotine and Weight Loss in the Central Nervous System |
| Jigarkumar Desai | Candida albicans: Why is it Virulent? | |
| 10/5 |
Eugenio Gallo | Dissecting the Complexity of Hematopoiesis by Mass-Cytometry |
| Salini Konikkat | Much More than Translation: Specialized Functions of Ribosomes | |
| 10/12 |
Karen Kormuth |
Much More than a Vegetable: Spinach and the Development of Fluorescently Tagged RNAs |
| Han Lai | When Metabolite Genes get Together | |
| 10/19 |
Ting Liu | Temperature Induced Phase Transition and Change in Ejection Kinetics of Phage Genome |
| Olivia Molinar |
Head Versus Tail Regeneration in Planaria | |
| 10/26 | John Pettersson |
Diversifying the Sequence Between Neighbouring Domains can Prevent Interdomain Misfolding |
| Madhumitha Ramesh |
You are What You Eat: Why miRNA Might be the Next Sensational Nutritional Supplement | |
| 11/2 | Elizabeth Ransey |
The Structure-based Design of Amyloid Fibril Inhibitors Structure-based design of non-natural amino-acid inhibitors of amyloid fibril formation. Nature, Vol 475, 7 July 2011. |
| Sahil Sangani |
Understanding the Mechanism of a GPCR-G Protein Complex Formation |
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| 11/9 | Zhongling Sun |
The Mechanism of Gamete Recognition in the Mouse Gagandeep Gahlay, Lyn Gauthier, Boris Baibakov, Olga Epifano and Jurrien Dean. Gamete Recognition in Mice Depends on the Cleavage Status of an Egg's Zona Pellucida Protein. Science. Vol. 329 no. 5988 pp. 216-219,9 July 2010. DOI: 10.1126/science |
| Yi Wang |
Rotation of Rotorless F1-ATPaes |
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| 11/16 (Mellon Institute Social Room) |
Rotation 1 Presentations 12:30 to 2:20 p.m. |
Tanvi Shashikant Philip Davidson Adam Foote Tara Tappen Stacie Oliver Ardon Shorr Christopher Pratt Daniel Shiwarski Shawn Burton Pieter Spealman Beril Kumcuoglu |
| 11/23 | No Journal Club due to Thanksgiving Break |
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| 11/30 |
Kiran Rafiq |
Linking a Developmental Gene Regulatory Network to Morphogenesis |
| Jason Talkish | Understanding How Three Proteins Fold rRNA by Chemical Footprinting and Other “Cutting”-Edge Techniques | |
| 12/7 | David Whitney | Age-Dependent Changes in the Columnar Organization and Plasticity of the Ferret Visual Cortex |
| Emily Furbee |
hsp27 and Programmed Cell Death in Drosophila Development | |