Spring 2005 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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| Jan. 19 | Vikrant Kapoor | "Understanding the role of granule cell mediated inhibition in main olfactory bulb of the mice" |
| Phil Campbell | "Engineering biological patterning" | |
| Jan. 26 | Mangala Srinivas | "Monitoring cell migration in vivo using MRI" |
| Alison Barth | "Defining the CREB regulon: A genome-wide analysis of transcription factor regulatory regions" by Impey et al., Cell 119:1041-1054. | |
| Feb. 2 | Lan Tang | "Protein or ribonucleoprotein neighborhoods within assembling ribosomes" |
| James Burnette | "Enhancing student comprehension with interactive computer tutorials" | |
| Feb. 9 | Yanhua Hu | "Automated classification of protein subcellular locations from time series images" |
| Eric Ahrens | ||
| Feb. 16 | Advisory Commitee Meeting | |
| Feb. 23 | Arun Krishnaswamy | "Large-scale testing of chemical shift prediction algorithms and improved machine learning-based approaches to shift prediction" |
| David Hackney | "EB1 (microtubule (+) end binding protein 1) sticks its finger in it" | |
| March 2 | Parul Nisha | "Whispering down the lane vs. yelling across the street - the chromatin way" |
| March 16 | Narayan Raghupathy | "Genomic paternity testing" |
| Elizabeth Jones | "Half a loaf is better than none" | |
| March 23 | Nan Song | "Is this your long lost brother?" |
| Dannie Durand | "Brand new genes" Sayah et al. Cyclophilin A retrotransposition into TRIM5 explains owl monkey resistance to HIV-1. Nature. 2004; 430(6999):569-73.
M. Long et al. The origin of new genes: glimpses from the young and old. Nat Rev Genet. 2003;4(11):865-75. |
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| March 30 | Christine Wang | "Dude, where's my chlorine?" |
| Rebecca Bollinger | "Fusion of cells by 'Flipped' SNAREs" Hu C, Ahmed M, Melia TJ, Sollner TH, Mayer T, Rothman JE. Science. 2003 Jun 13;300(5626):1745-9. |
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| April 6 | Brett Benedetti | "Put on your thinking HAT" Korzus E., Rosenfeld, M., Mayford, M. CBP histone acetyltransferase activity is a critical component of memory consolidation. Neuron 2004;42, 961-72. |
| Panagiotis Papasaikas | "Of Mice and Men" Gene W. Yeo et. al. Identification and Analysis of Alternative Splicing Events Conserved in Human and Mouse. 2005, PNAS vol. 102 no.8 2850-2855. |
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| April 13 | Aarti Sahasranaman | "Tiam1: PARtaker in cell polarity" Chen X, Macara I. Par-3 controls tight junction assembly through the Rac exchange factor Tiam1. Nature Cell Biology 2005. Vol. 7(3): 262- 269. |
| Debrup Sengupta | "Sgo1: what draws us together, what drives us apart" | |
| April 20 | Sonal Shruti | "The Runner Junkies" |
| Mengning Zhou | "Axon or dendrite, that is the question" Jiang H, Guo W, Liang X, and Rao Y. Both the Establishment and the Maintenance of Neuronal Polarity Require Active Mechanisms: Critical Roles of GSK-3‚ and Its Upstream Regulators. Cell. 2005 Jan 14;120(1):123-35. |
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| April 27 | Rajalaxmi Natarajan | CANCELLED |
| Robert Murphy | ||