JOURNAL
CLUBS
Fall
2006
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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
Cell & Development
Journal Club
Monday, 12:00-1:00
0101 Science Center
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Date
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Presenter |
Paper |
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9/11 |
Organizational Meeting |
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9/18 |
Noelle Ammon |
Silva, J. et al (2006) Nanog
promotes transfer of pluripotency after cell fusion. Nature 441:
997-1001. |
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9/25 |
Kristi LaMonica |
Takahashi, K. et al (2006) Induction of
pluripotent stem cells from mouse embryonic and adult fibroblast cultures by
defined factors. Cell 126: 663-676. |
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10/2 |
Cancelled |
|
10/2 |
Hunter Cai |
Androutsellis-Theotokis, A. et al Notch
signalling regulates stem cell number in vitro and in vivo.
Nature 442: 823-826/ |
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10/9 |
Adrienne Santiago |
Li, X.-J. et al Specification of
motoneurons from human embryonic stem cells. Nature Biotech. 23:
215-221. |
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10/16 |
Fall Break |
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10/9 |
Adrienne Santiago |
Li, X.-J. et al Specification of
motoneurons from human embryonic stem cells. Nature BIotech. 23:
215-221. |
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10/30 |
Will Gladstone |
Aebersold, R. et al (2003) Mass
spectrometry-based proteomics. Nature 422(6928): 198-207. |
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11/6 |
Claire Pelletier |
Andersen, J.S. et al (2003)
Proteomic characterization of the human centrosome by protein correlation
profiling. Nature 426(6966): 570-4 |
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11/13 |
Frank Tulenko |
Mellgren, E.M. et al (2004) A requirement
for kit in embryonic zebrafish melanocyte differentiation is revealed
by melanoblast delay. Dev Genes Evol 214: 493-502. |
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11/20 |
Sara Patterson |
Yang, C-T. et al (2006) Small
molecule-induced ablation and subsequentt regeneration of larval zebrafish
melanocytes. Development 133: 3563-3573. |
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Evolution
Journal Club
Tuesday, 12:00 - 1:00
314 SH
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Date |
Presenter |
Topic |
Concept/
Data |
Faculty
Moderator |
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9/12 |
Organizational Meeting |
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9/19 |
Kate Miller |
Evolution of and caused by introduced species |
Concept |
Sonia
Sultan |
|
9/26 |
Peri Mason |
Data |
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10/3 |
Ben Winslow |
Effects of metabolism on evolutionary rate |
Concept |
Barry Chernoff |
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10/10 |
Liz Perry |
Data |
|
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10/17 |
Fall Break |
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|
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10/24 |
Michelle Kraczkowski |
Evolution of trade-offs |
Concept |
Fred Cohan |
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10/31 |
Tom Chase |
Data |
|
|
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11/7 |
Alex Koeppel |
Evolution of generalization and specialization |
Concept |
Mike Singer |
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11/14 |
Tim Farkas |
Data |
|
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11/21 |
Thanksgiving |
|
|
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11/28 |
Frank Stellabotte |
Developmental drive |
Concept |
Ann Burke |
|
12/5 |
Becky Shearman |
Data |
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Neuroscience
Journal Club
Monday, 12:00 - 1:00
314SH
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Date
|
Presenter
|
Paper
|
|
9/11 |
Organizational Meeting |
|
9/18 |
Owen Kiely |
Lombardino, A.J. et al (2005) Replaceable
neurons and nurodegenerative disease share depressed UCHL1 levels.
PNAS 102(22): 8036-8041. |
|
9/25 |
Nate Hartman |
Bhardwaj, R.D. et al (2006) Neocortical
neurogenesis in humans is restricted to development. PNAS
103(33): 12564-12568. |
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10/2 |
Zhi Zhang |
Komai, S. et al (2006) Postsynaptic
excitability is necessary for strengthening of cortical sensory responses
during experience-dependent development. Nature Neuroscience 9(9):
1125-1133. |
|
10/9 |
Meysa Tretreault |
Zucconi, G.G. et al (2006) 'One night'
sleep deprivation stimulates hippocampal neurogenesis. Brain Res Bulletin
69: 375-381. |
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10/16 |
Fall Break |
|
10/23 |
Stephen Briggs |
Tafoya, L.C.R. et al (2006) Expression
and function of SNAP-25 as a universal SNARE component in GABAergic neurons
J. Neurosci. 26(30): 7826-7838.. |
10/30
|
Kirsta Perks |
Poulet, J.F.A. et al The cellular basis
of a corollary discharge. Science 311: 518-522. |
|
11/6 |
Kate McDonald |
Brunell, D.H. et al (2006)
b2-Subunit-containing
nicotinic acetylcholine receptors are involved in nicotine-induced increases
in conditioned reinforcement but not progressive ratio responding for food
in C57BL/6 mice. Psychopharmacology 184: 328-338. |
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11/13 |
Jia Liu |
Shi, J. et al (2005) Bax limits adult
neural stem cell persistence through caspase and IP3 receptor activation. Cell
Death & Differentiaion 12: 1601-1612. |
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11/20 |
Lisa D'Angelo |
Sjöström, P.J. et al (2006) A cooperative
switch determines the sign of synaptic plasticity in distal dendrites of
neocortical pyramidal neurons. Neuron 51: 227-238. |
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11/27 |
Sue Liu |
Isomura, Y. et al (2003) Glutamatergic
propagation of GABAergic seizure-like afterdischarge in the Hippocampus
in vitro. J. Neurophysiol 90: 2746-2751. |
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12/4 |
Shannon Liu |
Cagniard, B., et al (2006) Dopamine
scales performance in the absence of new learning. Neuron 51:
541-547. |
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12/11 |
Joe Carpentino |
Zheng, T. et al (2006) Neurogenic
astrocytes transplanted into the adult mouse lateral ventricle contribute to
olfactory neurogenesis, and reveal a novel intrinsic subependymal neuron.
NeurosciI 142: 175-185. |
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