Journal Clubs: Department of Biology
Spring 1999
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The Biology Department has journal clubs in three areas in which recent journal articles are presented and discussed. Three journal clubs meet weekly over lunch:

Cell and Development
Evolution
Neuroscience

Cell and Development
Thursdays, 12:00-1:00 pm

Date
Presenter
Paper
SPRING 99

January 28

TK Das

Sexually dimorphic development of the mammalian reproductive tract requires Wnt-7a. Nature 395: 707.

February 4

Peter Maye

Turning Brain into Blood: A Hematopoietic Fate Adopted by Adult Neural Stem Cells in Vivo. 1999. Science 283: 534-

February 11 

Jim Mulrooney   

The Integrin anb6 Binds and Activate Latent TGFb: A Mechanism for Regulating Pulmonary Inflammaion and Fibrosis. 1999. Cell 96:3 19-328.

February 18   

Joel D'Angelo  

Supression of GATA factor activity causes axix duplication in Xenopus

February 25  

Kate Foley 

Interaction of the Integrin b6 Cytoplasmic Domain with ICAP-1 Protein. 1999. Journal of Biological Chemistry 274(1): 11-19.

March 4

Noah Byrd

Recruitment of a hedgehog regulatory circuit in butterfly eyespot evolution.

March 25   

Pavithra Vivekanand   

April 1

Suneeta Sundarasan Paroly

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April 8 

Michael Barresi
Dayana Krawchuk 

Yamagishi, et al. A molecular pathway revealing a genetic basis for human cardiac and craniofacial defects. 1999. Science 283:1158-1161.

Thomas, et al. A signal cascade involving endothelin-1, cHAND and Msx1 regulates development of neural-crest derived branchial arch mesenchyme. Development 125: 3005-3014.

April 15 

Kartik Pappu 

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April 22 

Chandreyee Purkayastha 

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April 29

Damon Pawlak

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Evolution Journal Clubs
Thursdays, 11:30-1:00 pm

Date
Presenter
Paper
SPRING 99

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Neuroscience Journal Club
Mondays, 12:00-1:00 pm

Date
Presenter
Paper

SPRING 99

February 1 

David Bodznick

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February 8  

Greg Peterson

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February 15

Anna Dondzilla

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February 22

Harry Sinnamon

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March 29 

Magda Chechlacz

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April 5  

Karen Williams-Francis

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April 12  

Poornima Tekumalla

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April 26  

Rina Aviram

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May 3

John Kirn

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