Journal Clubs
Fall 2004
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The Biology Department has journal clubs in three areas in which
recent journal articles are presented and discussed. The following
journal clubs meet weekly over lunch:
Cell and Development
Evolution
Neuroscience
Reading a
science paper: http://sdevoto.web.wesleyan.edu/Biol321/321reading2.html
Cell & Development Journal Club
Mondays, 12:00-1:00 PM
0101 Science Center
(NSM Conference room)
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Date
|
Presenter |
Paper |
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Sep 6 |
Organizational Meeting
|
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Sep 13 |
Frank Stellabotte |
Darland, D.C. et al
(2003) Pericyte production of cell-associated VEGF is
differentiation-dependent and is associated with endothelial survival.
Dev Biol 264: 275-288 |
|
Sep 20 |
Hunter Cai |
Li, H.-S. et
al (2003) Inactivation of numb and numblike in embryonic dorsal
forebrain impairs neurogenesis and disrupts cortical morphogenesis.
Neuron 40: 1105-1118. |
|
Sep 27 |
Sandy Becker |
Morikawa, Y.
et al (2004) Extra-embryonic vasculature development is regulated by the
transcription factor HAND1. Development 131: 2195-2204. |
|
Oct 4 |
Tao Hong |
Chesnutt, C. et al (2004) Coordinate regulation
of neural tube patterning and proliferation by TGFb
and WNT activity. Developmental Biology 274: 334-347. |
|
Oct 11 |
Sara Patterson |
Burstyn-Cohen, T.
et al (2004) Canonical Wnt activity regulates trunk neural crest
delamination linking BMP/noggin signaling with G1/S transition.
Development 131: 5237-5339. |
|
Oct 18 -- Fall Break |
|
Oct 25 |
Kristi LaMonica |
Nakaya, Y. et al
(2004) Mesenchymal-epithelial transition during somitic segmentation is
regulated by differential roles of Cdc42 and Rac1. Developmental
Cell 7: 425-438. |
|
Nov 1 |
Rachel Epstein |
van der Velden, A.W.
et al (2002) Ribosomal scanning on the highly structured insulin-like
growth factor II-leader 1. Int'l J. Biochem. & Cell Biol. 34:
286-297. |
|
Nov 8 |
Jungsun Ghil |
Lobjois, V. et
al (2004) Specific regulation of cyclins D1 and D2 by FGF
and Shh signaling coordinates cell cycle progression, patterning, and
differentiation during early steps of spinal cord development.
Developmental Biology 273: 195-209. |
|
Nov
15 |
Joe Carpentino |
Yamamoto, Y. et al
(2004) Hedgehog signalling controls eye degeneration in blind cavefish.
Nature 431: 844-847. |
|
Nov 22 |
Xuesong Feng |
Balciunas, D. et al
(2004) Enhancer trapping in zebrafish using Sleeping Beauty
transposon. BMC Genomics 5: 62. |
|
Nov 29 |
Will Gladstone |
Cormer, A. et al
(2004) Identification of genes associated with tumorigenesis and metastatic
potential of hypopharyngeal cancer by microarray analysis. Onogene
23: 2484-2498. |
|
Dec 6 |
Ben Winslow |
Boulet, A.M. (2004)
The roles of Fgf4 and Fgf8 in limb bud initiation and
outgrowth. Develop. Biol. 273: 361-372. |
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Evolution
Journal Club
[Invasiveness and Invasibility]
Tuesdays, 12:00 -1:00 PM
314 Shanklin
|
Date |
Presenter |
Paper |
|
Sep 14 |
Organizational Meeting |
|
Sep 21 |
Sonia Sultan &
Mike Singer |
Introduction to Invasiveness
Kolar, C. et al (2001) Progress in invasion biology: predicting
invaders. Trends in Ecol & Evol 16(4): 199-204. |
|
Sep 28 |
Marjorie Lundgren |
Introduction to Invasibility
Lundgren, M. et al (2004) Influence of land use and site
characteristics on invasive plant abundance in the Quinebaug Highlands of
Southern New England. Northeastern Naturalist 11(3):
323-342. |
|
Oct 5 |
Logan Durland |
Levine, J.M. (2000) Species Diversity and biological
invasions: Relating local process to community pattern. Science
288: 852-854. |
|
Oct 12 |
Sonia Sultan |
Callaway, R.M. et al (1999) Biological-control
herbivores may increase competitive ability of the noxious weed Centaurea
maculosa. Ecology 80(4): 1196-1201. |
|
Oct 19 -- Fall Break |
|
Oct 26 |
Alex Koeppel |
Kolbe, J.J. et al (2004) Genetic variation
increases during biological invasions by a Cuban lizard. Nature
431: 177-181. |
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Nov 2 |
Bruce Libman |
Rehage, J.S. et al (2004) Dispersal behavior,
boldness, and the link to invasiveness: a comparison of four Gambusia
species. Biological Invasions 6: 379-291. |
|
Nov 9 |
Mike Singer |
Holway, D.A. (1999) Competitive mechanisms underlying the
displacement of native ants by the invasive Argentine ant. Ecology
80(1): 238-251. |
|
Nov 16 |
Tim Griffith |
Thomas, C.D. et al (2001) Ecological and
evolutionary processes at expanding range margins. Nature
411: 577-580. |
|
Nov 23 |
Thanksgiving break |
|
Nov 30 |
Marjorie Lundgren |
Rigaud, T. et al (2003) Differential phenoloxidase
activity between native and invasive gammarids infected by local
acanthocephalans: differential immunosuppression? Parasitology
127: 571-577 |
|
Dec 7 |
Metasynthesis wrap-up lunch |
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Neuroscience
Journal Club
Mondays, 12:00-1:00 PM
314 Shanklin
|
Date
|
Presenter
|
Paper
|
|
Sep 6 |
Organizational Meeting
|
|
Sep 13 |
Kate Stellitano |
Graziano, A. et al (2002) Learning
power of single behavioral units in acquisition of a complex spatial
behavior: an observational learning study in cerebellar-lesioned rats.
Behavioral Neurosci 116(1): 116-125. |
|
Sep 20 |
Roopa Narasimhaiah |
Kausik, S. et al (2003) A Neuronal isoform of CPEB
regulates local protein synthesis and stabilizes synapse-specific long-term
facilitation in Aplysia. Cell 115: 893-904. |
|
Sep 27 |
Rachel Seltzer |
Mizuno, M. et al (2003)
Involvement of BDNF receptor TrkB in spatial memory formation.
Learning & Memory 10: 108-115. |
|
Oct 4
|
Jia Liu |
Wang, H.
et al
(2004) Overexpression of type-1 adenylyl cyclase in mouse forebrain enhances
recognition memory and LTP. Nature Neuroscience 7(6): 635-642. |
|
Oct
11 |
Lisa Bertetto |
Shiflett, M.W.
et al
(2004) Long-term memory for spatial locations in a food-storing bird (Poecile
atricapilla) requires activation of NMDA receptors in the hippocampal
formation during learning. Behavioral Neuroscience 118(1):
121-130. |
|
Oct 18
-- Fall
Break |
|
Oct 25 |
Society for Neuroscience Oct 23-27 |
|
Nov 1 |
Zhi Zhang |
Celikel, T. et al (2004) Modulation
of spike timing by sensory deprivation during induction of cortical map
plasticity. Nature Neuroscience 7(5): 534-541. |
|
Nov 8 |
Mohit Neema |
Lee, I. et al (2004) Differential
contributions of dorsal hippocampal subregions to memory acquisition and
retrieval in contextual fear-conditioning. Hippocampus 14:
301-310. |
|
Nov 15 |
Mojgan Khdadoust |
Chevaleyre, V. et al Endocannabinoid-mediated
metaplasticity in the hippocampus. Nature 43: 871-881. |
|
Nov 22 |
Lianne Morris-Smith |
Tzounopoulos, T. et al
Cell-specific, spike timing-dependent plasticities in the dorsal cochlear
nucleus. Nature Neuroscience 7(7): 719-725. |
|
Nov 29 |
Meyesa Tetreault |
Herbert, A. et al (2004) Plasticity
in the entorhinal cortex suppresses memory for contextual fear. J.
Neuroscience 24(45): 10111-10116. |
|
Dec 6 |
Patrick Hurley |
Fischer, A. et al (2004) Distinct
roles of hippocampal de novo protein synthesis and actin
rearrangement in extinction of contextual fear. J. Neuroscience
24(8): 1962-1966. |
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