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JOURNAL CLUBS
SPRING 2007

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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 and Development Journal Club
Tuesdays 12:00 - 1:00

0101 SC (NSM Conf Room)

 

Date

Presenter

Paper
Jan 30 Organizational Meeting

Feb. 6

 Noelle Ammon

Folkman, J. et al  (1980) Angiogenesis in vitro.  Nature 288:551-556 (w/background materials)

Feb 13

 Kristi LaMonica

 Kamei, M. et al (2006) Endothelial tubes assemble from intracellular vaculoes in vivo. Nature 442: 453-456.
Feb 20 seminar

Feb. 27

 Sara Patterson

Bayless, K.J. et al (2001) The Cdc42 and Rac1 GTPases are required for capillary lumen formation in three-dimensional extracellular matrices.  J. Cell Science 115: 1123-1136.

Mar 6

 Claire Pelletier

Vaux, D.L. et al (1992) Prevention of programmed cell death in Caenorhabditis elegans by human bcl-2.  Science 258: 1955-1957.

Spring Break (March 13 and March 20)

Mar 27

no meeting

 

Apr  3

 Nate Hartman

Zinkel, S.S. et al (2005) A role for proapoptotic ID in the DNA-damage response. Cell 122: 579-591.

Apr 10

 Adrienne Santiago

Kamer, I. et al  (2005) Proapoptotic BID is an ATM effector in the DNA-damage response.  Cell 122: 593-603.
Apr 17  Frank Stellabotte Brito, J.M. et al (2006) An early role for Sonic hedgehog from foregut endoderm in jaw development: Ensuring neural crest cell survival.  PNAS 103: 11607-11612.

Apr 24

 Hunter Cai

Schnieder, R.A. et al (2003) The cellular and molecular origins of beak morphology. Science 299: 565-568.

May 1

 Will Gladstone

 Abzhanov, A. et al (2004) BMP4 and morphological variation of beaks in Darwin's finches.  Science 305: 1462-1465.

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Evolution Journal Club
Tuesdays, 12:00-1:00
314 Shanklin

 

Date

Presenter

Jan 30 Organizational meeting
Feb. 6 Discussion of overview by Jablonka and Lamb
Feb. 13 Ben Winslow Loile, S.J. et al (2005) Genome-side non-medelian inheritance of extra-genomic information in Arabidopisi. Nature 434: 505-509.
Feb 22 Tom Chase Gustafsson, S. et al (2005) Increased consumer fitness following transfer of toxin tolerance to offspring via maternal effects. Ecology 86(10): 2561-2567.
Feb. 27 Alex Koeppel Cropley, J.E. et al (2006) Germ-line epigenetic modification of the murine Avy allele by nutritional supplementation. PNAS 103(460; 17308-17312.
Mar. 6 Liz Perry Morgan, H.D., et al  (1999) Epigenetic inheritance at the agouti locus in the mouse. Nature Genetics 23: 314-318. 

Spring break
Mar. 27 Peri Mason Cubas, P. et al (1999) An epigenetic mutation responsible for natural variation in floral symmetry. Nature 401, 157-161
Apr. 3 Frank Tulenko Richard, E. (2006) Inherited epigenetic variation -- revisiting soft inheritance.  Nat Rev Genet. 7(5): 395-401
Apr. 10 Christian Skorik Rassoulzadegan, M. et al (2006) RNA-mediated non-mendelian inheritance of an epigenetic change in the mouse.  Nature 441: 469-474.
Apr. 17 Michelle Kraczkowski Krützen, M. et al (2005) Cultural transmission of tool use in bottlenose dolphins. PNAS 102: 8939-8943.
Apr. 24 Kate Miller
May 1  Wrap-up lunch


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Neuroscience Journal Club
Mondays 12:00 - 1:00

314 Shanklin

 

Date

Presenter

Paper

 Jan 29

 Organizational Meeting

 Feb 5

 Meyesa Tetreault

Ulanovsky, N. et al (2007) Hippocampal cellular and network activity in freely moving echolocating bats Nature Neuroscience 10(2): 224-233

 Feb 12

 Owen Kiely

Kee, N. et al (2007) Preferential incorporation of adult-generated granule cells into spatial memory networks in the dentate gyrus.  Nature Neuroscience 2/4/07, pg 1-8.

 Feb 19

 Scott Diamond

Tindell, A.J. et al (2006) Ventral pallidum firing codes hedonic reward: When a bad taste turns good. J. Nelurophysiol 96: 2399-2409.

 Feb 26

 Zhi Zhang

Robbe, D. et al (2006) Cannabinoids reveal importance of spike timing coordination in hippocampal function. Nature Neuroscience 9(12): 1526-1533.

 Mar 5

Krista Perks

Jourdain, P. et al (2007) Glutamate exocytosis from astrocytes controls synaptic strength. Nature Neuroscience 10(3): 331-339.

Spring Break  (March 12 and 19)

 Mar 26

 Kate McDonald

Husemann, G.R. et al (2006) Dynamic role of postsynaptic caspase-3 and BIRC4 in zebra finch song-response habituation. Neuron 51: 1061-1072.

 Apr 2

 Stephen Briggs

Redman, P.T. et al (2007) Apoptotic surge of potassium currents is mediated by p38 phosphorylation of Kv2.1.  PNAS 104: 3538-3573.

 Apr 9

 Jia Liu

 Fannjiang, Y. et al (2003) BAK alters neuronal excitability and can switch from anti- to pro-death function curing postnatal development. Develop Cell 4: 575-585.

 Apr 16

 Sue Liu

Iwasato, T et al (2000) Cortex-restricted disruption of NMDAR1 impairs neuronal patterns in the barrel cortex.  Nature 406: 726-731.

 Apr 23

 Shannon Liu

Tashiro, A. et al (2007) Experience-specific functional modification of the dentate gyrus through adult neurogenesis: A critical period during an immature stage. J. Neuroscience 27(12): 3252-3259.
Apr 30

Jesse Goldberg
MIT

 Goldberg, J. et al Calcium Microdomains in aspiny dendrites. Neuron  40: 807-821.


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