Jan 27

Organizational Meeting

Feb 3

Biology Candidate seminar

Feb 10

Biology Candidate seminar

Feb 24

Joseph Carpentino

Barrow, J.R. et al Ectodermal Wnt3/b-catenin signaling is required for the establishment and maintenance of the apical ectodermal ridge. Gene & Dev. 17: 394-409.

Mar 3

Frank Stellabotte

Hata, K. et al (2002) Dnm3L cooperates with the Dnmt3 family de novo DNA methyltransferases to establish maternal imprints in mice. Development 129: 1983-1993.

Mar 10

Sara Patterson

Walmsley, M. et al (2002) Adult and embryonic blood and endothelium derive from distinct precursor populations which are differentially programmed by BMP in Xenopus. Development 129: 5683-5695.

SPRING BREAK

Mar 24

Joel D'Angelo

Brock, D.A. et al (2002) The different components of a multisubunit cell number-counting factor have both unique and overlapping functions. Development 129: 3657-3668.

Mar 31

Jungsun Ghil

Gammill, L.S. and Broner-Fraser, M. (2002) Genomic analysis of neural crest induction. Development 129: 5731-5741.

Apr 7

Tao Hong

Habas, R.. et al (2003) Coactivation of Rac and Rho by Wnt/Frizzled signaling is required for vertebrate gastrulation. Genes & Development 17: 295-309.

Apr 14

Ryoko Takimoto

Horb, M.E. et al (2003) Experimental conversion of liver to pancreas. Current Biology 13: 105-115.

Apr 21

Xuesong Feng & Jeff Thorne

Botella, J.A. (2003) Deregulation of the Egfr/Ras signaling pathway induces age-related brain degeneration in the Drosophila mutant vap. Mol Bio of the Cell 14: 241-250.

Apr 28

Vinodh Kurella

Cramter, T. et al (2003) HIF-1a is essential for myeloid cell-mediated inflammation. Cell 112: 645-657.

May 5

Suneeta Sundarasanan-Paroly/
Hunter Cai

Chan, S-K. and Struhl, G. (2002) Evidence that armadillo transduces wingless by mediating nuclear export or cytosolic activation of pangolin. Cell 111: 265-280.

Jan 28

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Feb 18

Dan Sloan

Walker-Larsen, J. and Harder, L.D. (2001) Vestigal organs as opportunties for functional innovation: the example of the Penstemon staminode. Evolution 55(3): 447-487.

Feb 25

Dave Van Dyken

Arthur, W. (2000) Intraspecific variation in developmental characters: The origin of evolutionary novelities. Amer. Zool. 40: 811-818.

Mar 4

Tim Griffith

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Apr 1

Alex Koeppel

Pellmyr, O. and Krenn, H.W. (2002) Origin of a complex key innovation in a obligate insect-plant mutaualism. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 99(8): 5498-5502.

Apr 8

Marjorie Lundgren

Hunter, J.P. and Jernvall, J. (1995) The hypocone as a key innovation in mammalian evolution. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 92: 10718-10722.

Apr 15

Michael Mertens

Paulding, C.A. et al (2003) The Tre2(USP6) oncogene is a hominoid-specific gene. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 100: 2507-2511.

Apr 22

Ryan Waples

Smith, J.F. (2001) High species diversity in flesh-fruited tropical understory plants. The American Naturalist 157(6): 646-653.

Apr 29

Bruce Libman

de Queiroz, A. (1999) Do image-forming eyes promote evolutionary diversification? Evolution 53(6): 1654-1664.

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Jan 27

Organizational Meeting

Feb 3

Biology Candidate seminar

Feb 10

Biology Candidate seminar

Feb 17

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Apr 7

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Nakagawa, S. et al (2002) Regulation of neurogenesis in adult mouse hippocampus by cAMP and the cAMP response element-binding protein. J. Neurosci. 22(9): 3673-3682.

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Fortune, E.S. and Rose, G.J. (2001) Short-term synaptic plasticity as a temporal filter. Trends in Neuroscience 24(7) 381-385.

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