Spring 2007 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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| Jan. 24 | Lan Tang | "Assembly of a neighborhood in nascent ribosomes" |
| *12:30 p.m.* | Tim Feinstein | "A protein that Golgi stacks clasp" |
| Jan. 31 | Roger Clem | "Probing the role of prior experience in synaptic plasticity" |
| Charles Ettensohn | "The hole picture: how endothelial cells form tubes" | |
| Feb. 7 | Vikrant Kapoor | "Glomerulus-specific, long-latency activity in the olfactory bulb granule cell network" |
| Jonathan Minden | “Centrosomes? We don’t need no stinking centrosomes” | |
| Feb. 19 (Monday) |
Rotation Reports | |
| Feb. 21 | Rotation Reports | |
| Feb. 28 | Rebecca Webb | "APC2 and Diaphanous function together to organize actin in the Drosophila syncytial embryo" |
| Jim Burnette | "Telling time by seeing blue" Doyle SE, Castrucci AM, McCall M, Provencio I, Menaker M. Nonvisual light responses in the Rpe65 knockout mouse: rod loss restores sensitivity to the melanopsin system. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 Jul 5;103(27):10432-7. Epub 2006 Jun 20. |
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| March 7 | Kaustubh Sinha | "NMR studies of hGSTA1-1 and hGSTA4-4" |
| John Woolford | "An important question I never answered keeps reappearing" Haarer,Viggiano,Hibbs,Troyanskaya,and Amberg (2007). Modeling complex genetic interactions in a simple eukaryotic genome: actin displays a rich spectrum of complex haploinsufficiencies. Genes and Development 21:148-159. |
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| March 14 | Spring Break |
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| March 21 | Maureen Stolzer | "Two's company, but three's irreconcilable?" |
| Tina Lee | "Clip BiP and save a trip" AB5 subtilase cytotoxin inactives the ER chaperone BiP, Nature, 2006, Vol 443, p.548-52. |
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| March 28 | Panagiotis Papasaikas | "Intronic signals: mapping the uncharted territory" |
| April 4 | Debrup Sengupta | "How do we form Golgi ribbons?" |
| Veronica Hinman | "The eyes have it: system -level analysis and evolution of the phototransduction network in Drosophila" PNAS Feb 2007 104: 3283-3288 |
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| April 11 | Brett Benedetti | "Doing more with less: experience-dependent plasticity in barrel cortex" |
| April 18 | Sonal Shruti | "Four Slobs and a Slowpoke: Seizure-induced gain-of-function in large conductance potassium channels" |
| Mengning Zhou | "Actin and APC2: on the way to a protein complex" | |
| April 25 | Tamara Berdyyeva | "Neuronal Activity in Monkey Frontal Cortex During Performance of Serial Order Tasks" |
| Javier López | "...and fleas have smaller fleas that bite them: The snoRNA HBII-52 regulates alternative splicing of serotonin receptor 2C" | |
| May 9 | Rotation Reports | |
| May 11 (Friday) | Rotation Reports | |