Jan. 28

Organizational meeting

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Feb. 4

Joel D'Angelo

Trainor, P.A. (2002) Signalling between the hindbrain and paraxial tissues dictates neural crest migration pathways. Development 129: 433-442.

Feb. 11

Noah Byrd

Kwang, S.J. et al. (2002) Msx2 is an immediate downstream effector of Pax3 in the development of the murine cardiac neural crest. Development 129: 527-538.

Feb. 18

Pavithra Vivekanand

Srinivasula, S.M. et al. (2002) sickle, a Novel Drosophila Death Gene in the reaper/hid/grim Region, Encodes an IAP-Inhibitory Protein. Current Biology 12:125-130.

Feb. 25

Suneeta Sudarsanan

Deng, Y., Lin, Y. and Wu, X. (2002) TRAIL-induced apoptosis requires Bax-dependent mitochrondrial release of Smac/DIABLO. Genes & Development 33-45.

March 4

Vinodh Kurella

Sun, Z. and Hopkins, N. (2001) vhnf1, the MODY5 and familial GCKD-associated gene, regulates regional specification of the zebrafish gut, pronephros, and hindbrain. Genes & Development 15: 3217-3229.

SPRING BREAK

March 25

Frank Stellabotte

Hanken, J. et al. (2001) Limb Development in a "Nonmodel" Vertebrate, the Direct-Developing Frog Eleutherodactylus coqui. Journal of Experimental Zoology (Mol Dev Evol) 291:375-388.

April 1

Sara Patterson

Mootoosamy, R. and Dietrich, S. (2002) Distinct regulatory cascades for head and trunk myogenesis. Development 129: 573-583.

April 8

Ryoko Takimoto

Amano, O. et al. (2002) Hepatocyte growth factor is essential for migration of myogenic cells and promotes their proliferation during the early periods of tongue morphogenesis in mouse embryos. Developmental Dynamics 223:169-179.

April 15

Tao Hong

Bjorklund, L.M. et al. (2002) Embryonic stem cells develop into functional dopaminergic neurons after transplantation in a Parkinson rat model. PNAS 99(4):2344-2349.

April 22

Henrike Siemen

Lawson, N.D. et al. (2001) Notch signaling is required for arterial-venous differentiation during embryonic vascular development. Development 128: 3675-3683.

April 29

Xuesong Feng

Gustafsson, M.K. et al.(2002) Myf5 is a direct target of long-range Shh signaling and Gli regulationfor muscle specification. Genes & Development 16:114-126.

May 6

Jungsun Ghil

Alsan, B.H. and Schulteiss, T.M. (2002) Regulation of avian cardiogeneis by Fgf8 signaling. Development 129: 1935-1943.

May 13

Joe Carpentino

Gratsch, T.E. and O'Shea, K.S. (2002) Noggin and Chordin Have Distinct Activities in Promoting Lineage Commitment of Mouse Embryonic Stem (ES) Cells. Developmental Biology 245: 83-94.

Feb. 7

Cooper Funk

Bot, A.N.M. et al. (2001) Partial incompatibiltiy between ants and symbiotic fungi in two sympatric species of Acromyrmex leaf-cutting ants. Evolution 55(10):1980-1991.

Feb. 14

Dr. Kathleen Donohue

Donohue, K. (2001) Germination timing influences natural selection on life history characters in Arabidopsis thaliana. Ecology (Accepted, July 2001)

Feb. 21

Bethany Caruso

Galen, C. and Cuba, J. (2001) Down the tube: pollinators, predators, and the evolution of flower shape in the alpine skypilot, Polemonium viscosum. Evolution 55(10): 1963-1971.

Feb. 28

Nat Johnson

Dungey, H.S. et al. (2000) Plant genetics affects arthropod community richness and composition:evidence from a synthetic eucalypt hybrid population. Evolution 54(6):1938-1946.

March 7

candidate talk

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March 28

candidate talk

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April 4

Anthony O'Brien

Mutikainen, Pia et al. (2000) Local Adaptation, Resistance,and Virulence in a Hemiparasitic Plant-Host Plant Interaction. Evolution 54(2):433-440.

April 11

Tricie Gatcomb

Hairston, Jr., N.G., et al. (2001) Natural selection for grazer resistance to toxic cyanobacteria: evolution of phenotypic plasticity? Evolution 55(11):2203-2214.

April 18

No meeting

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April 25

Dan Sloan

Lively, C.M. (1999) Migration, Virulence, and the Geographic Mosaic of Adaptation by Parasites. The American Naturalist (Supplement) 153:S34-S47.

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Jan. 28

Organizational meeting

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Feb. 4

Janice Naegele

Albin, R.L., Young, A.B., and Penney, J.B. (1988) The functional anatomy of basal ganglia disorders. TINS 12(10):366-374.

Parent, A. and Hazrati, L-N (1995) Functional anatomy of the basal ganglia. I The cortico-basal ganglia-thalamo-cortical loop. Brain Research Reviews 20: 91-127.

Feb. 11

Carolyn Pytte

Perkel and Farries (2000) Current Opinion in Neurobio
Brainard and Doyce (2000) Nature.

Feb. 18

group discussion

Lieberman, P. (2000) The Subcortical Basal Ganglia. In: Human Language and Our Reptilian Brain. pp. 82-123.
Kandel et al. The Basal Ganglia.

Feb. 25

candidate talk

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March 4

candidate talk

March 25

No meeting

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April 1

Karen Gilliams Francis

Wu et al. (2002) Blockade of Microglial Activativation is Neuroprotective in the 1-Methyl-4-Phenyl-1,2,3,6- Tetrehydropyridine Mouse Model of Parkinson Disease. The Journal of Neuroscience 22(5): 1763-1771.

April 8

Patrick Hurley

Basso, M. and Wurtz, R. (2002) Neuronal Activity in Substantia Nigra Pars Reticulata during Target Selection. The Journal of Neuroscience 22(5):1883-1894.

April 15

Lisa Bertetto D'Angelo

Rosen, M.J. and Mooney, R. (2000) Intrinsic and Extrinsic Contributions to Auditory Selectivity in a Song Nucleus Critical for Vocal Plasticity. The Journal of Neuroscience 20(14):5437-5488.

April 22

Roopa Narasimhaiah

Sato, M. and Hikosaka, O. (2002) Role of Primate Substantia Nigra Pars Reticulata in Reward-Oriented Saccadic Eye Movement. The Journal of Neuroscience 22(6):2363-2373.

April 29

Liz Schiller

Battaglia, G. et al. (2002) Selective Blockade of mGlu5 Metabotropic Glutamate Receptors Is Protective against Methamphetamine Neurotoxicity. The Journal of Neuroscience 22(6):2135-2141.

May 6

Zhi Zhang

Levy et al. (2002) Synchronized Neuronal Discharge in the Basal Ganglia of Parkinson Patients is Limited to Oscillatory Activity. The Journal of Neuroscience 22(7):2855-2861.