Spring 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 |
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| 1/12 | Brenna McCauley |
Evolution of a Novel Cell Population in Sea Urchin Embryos: Changes in Specification and Cell Fate |
| 1/19 | Jeanne Morin-Leisk |
Mutational Analysis of a Large GTPase Required for ER Network Formation |
| Kalin Vasilev |
Biosensors for Protein Proximity at the Cell Surface |
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| 1/26 | Anmol Grover | Understanding Translation at Single Molecule Level |
| Alan Waggoner, Ph.D. |
Optogenetics |
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| 2/2 | Smita Yadav |
At Long Last, a Golgi Receptor Complex for the Dynein Motor! |
| Qi Yan |
Super-resolution Imaging Using Fluorogen Activating Proteins (FAPs) |
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| 2/8 (2-4 p.m.) |
Rotation 2 Presentations |
Karen Kormuth Sahil Sangani John Pettersson Jigarkumar Desai Shanna Bowersox Eugenio Gallo Madhumitha Ramesh |
| 2/9 (12:30-2 p.m.) |
Rotation 2 Presentations |
Ting Liu Elizabeth Ransey Salini Konikkat Zhongling Sun Han Lai Yi Wang Olivia Molinar |
| 2/16 | Bradley Yates | Progress Toward Creation of an scFv-based Protein-Protein Interaction Biosensor |
| Kaitlyn Dykstra |
How Does Yip1A Structure the Mammalian Endoplasmic Reticulum? | |
| 2/23 |
Emily Furbee |
Designing a Better in vivo Autophagy Reporter |
| Nathan Urban, Ph.D. |
A Dimorphic Pheromone Circuit in Drosophila from Sensory Input to Descending Output
Ruta V, Datta SR, Vasconcelos ML, Freeland J, Looger LL, Axel R. Nature 468, 686–690 (02 December 2010). doi:10.1038/nature09554 |
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| 3/2 |
Ashrifia Adomako-Ankomah | Regulation of Skeletal Morphogenesis in the Sea Urchin Embyro |
| Jing Wen | Input Specific Critical Periods for Experience-dependent Plasticity in Layer 2/3 Pyramidal Neurons | |
| 3/9 | No Journal Club - Spring Break |
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| 3/16 | Timothy Jarvela |
Understanding the Dynamics of the Golgi Through Acute Inactivation |
| Veronica Hinman, Ph.D. |
Phenotypic Robustness Conferred by Apparently Redundant Transcriptional Enhancers Frankel N, Davis GK, Vargas D, Wang S, Payre F, Stern DL. Nature. 466(7305):490-3, 2010 Jul 22. |
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| 3/23 | Merissa Remus | Region-specific ERK Activation in the Nucleus Accumbens in Response to Reward-predictive Cues: Does Behavioral Context Matter? |
| Javier Lopez, Ph.D. |
Is Aging Necessary? Sexual Antagonism, Epistasis and Deleterious Pleiotropy of Lifespan-extending Mutations in Drosophila Maguire et al. Quantitative and molecular genetic analyses of mutations increasing Drosophila life span. PLoS Genetics 6:e1001037, 2010. |
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| 3/30 | Ayshwarya Subramanian | Inferring Evolution of Cell Lineages in Breast Cancer |
| Jesse Sheehan |
Impact of Global and Local Attention on Neuronal Activity in Inferotemporal Cortex Perceptual psychologists have made frequent use of hierarchical displays to analyze global and local visual perception in humans. Hierarchical displays are well suited to this purpose because they allow measuring responses to the same shape both at the level of the whole object and at the level of its parts. A key phenomenon discovered by the use of such stimuli is the global advantage effect: humans report global shape faster then local shape. Inferotemporal cortex (IT), as the terminus of the ventral stream, a chain of areas dedicated to pattern vision, contains neurons selective for complex images. Recent work in the laboratory has shown that IT neurons in the macaque monkey exhibit a signal for global information ~30ms sooner than local information while passively viewing hierarchical displays. My research aims to expound upon this finding by requiring the active processing of the global and local content of the displays. Monkeys are cued which level (global or local) of the display to attend to, and must respond with the identity (shape) of the object at that level. This will attempt to answer two main questions: Do monkeys exhibit a behavioral global advantage effect while performing such a task? Is the discriminative signal latency in IT neurons the same during active as during passive processing? |
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| 4/6 | Mark DeBlois | Continuous Sensory Input is Not Required to Maintain Synaptic Strength after Plasticity Onset in the Mouse Barrel Cortex |
| Jason Talkish |
Structuring the Preribosome One Subcomplex at a Time: in vivo RNA Footprinting Reveals the RNA Binding Function of Nop12 |
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| 4/13 | Santosh Chandrasekaran | Exploring the Role of Diversity in Cortical Neural Circuits |
| Jineta Banerjee |
Knocking out GABAA Receptor in the Mouse Auditory Brainstem in a Tissue Specific Manner | |
| 4/20 |
Kiran Rafiq |
Linking a Developmental Gene Regulatory Network to Morphogenesis |
| Alys Cheatle |
Subtle Changes in DNA Binding May Explain Drastic Rewiring of Tbr Target Genes during Echinoderm Evolution | |
| 4/27 | David Whitney |
Evoking Neural Plasticity in the Visual Cortex Depends on Local Map Structure |
| Cassandra Priddy |
The Role of Ykt6 in Golgi Membrane Fusion Events | |
| 5/4 (Mellon Institute Social Room, 12:30 - 1:30 p.m.) |
Rotation 3 Presentations |
Yi Wang Sahil Sangani Jigarkumar Desai Shanna Bowersox Elizabeth Ransey |
| 5/5 (Mellon Institute Social Room, 10 - 11:10 a.m.) |
Rotation 3 Presentations |
Ting Liu Madhumitha Ramesh Salini Konikkat Han Lai Karen Kormuth Zhongling Sun Olivia Molinar Eugenio Gallo |