Cell & Developmental Biology Journal Club Schedule

Cell & Developmental Biology Journal Club Schedule

Cell & Developmental Biology Journal Club meetings are held on
Monday afternoons at 2:00 p.m. in Room 225 Streisinger (Novick Room)
(except where otherwise noted)

Instructors: Chris Doe and Karen Guillemin

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Spring 2008

Epigenetics theme -- papers from the labs of the upcoming CDB symposium speakers

Date	Presenter	Topic	Publication
April 7	DTG students organizational meeting
April 14	Scott Atwood	The active FMR1 promoter is associated with a large domain of altered chromatin conformation with embedded local histone modifications	PNAS, 103 (33), pp 12463-486
April 21	Jared Talbot	SATB1 reprogrammes gene expression to promote breast tumour growth and metastasis	Nature, 452, pp 187-193
April 28	Meredith Price	X chromosome repression by localization of the C. elegans dosage compensation machinery to sites of transcription initiationn	Nature Genetics, 39 (3), pp 403-08
May 5	Zack Lewis	Genome Defense and DNA Methylation in Neurospora	Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology, 2004, pp 119-124
May 12	Ryan Anderson	Kahn et al. Polycomb complexes and the propagation of the methylation mark at the Drosophila ubx gene.	J Biol Chem, (2006) vol. 281 (39) pp. 29064-75
May 19	Mike Miller	Buck MJ, Lieb JD. A chromatin-mediated mechanism for specification of conditional transcription factor targets.	Nature Genetics, 2006 Dec;38(12):1446-51.
May 26	Memorial Day holiday
June 2	Courtney Easley	Loss of silent-chromatin looping and impaired imprinting of DLX5 in Rett syndrome.	Nature Genetics, 2005 Jan;37(1):31-40.
June 9	Jon Kniss	REST and its corepressors mediate plasticity of neuronal gene chromatin throughout neurogenesis.	Cell, 2005 May 20; 121(4):645-57.
June 20	Developmental Training Grant Symposium 9am-5pm, 100 Willamette Registration and Details

Winter 2008

Date	Presenter	Topic	Publication
Jan. 7	Tory Herman	CANCELLED	Cell, 131, 174–187
Jan. 14	Sen-Lin Lai	Dendrite Self-Avoidance Is Controlled by Dscam	Cell, 129, 593–604
Jan. 21		Martin Luther King Holiday
Jan. 28	Meredith Price	Myosin II Regulates Complex Cellular Arrangement and Epithelial Architecture in Drosophila	Developmental Cell, 13, 717–729
Feb. 4	Jenn Bates	Akirins are highly conserved nuclear proteins required for NF-jB-dependent gene expression in drosophila and mice	Nature Immunology, 9 (1): 97-104
Feb. 11	Mike Miller	Probing the Limits to Positional Information	Cell, 130, 153–164
Feb. 18	Jon Kniss	A Nonapoptotic Cell Death Process, Entosis, that Occurs by Cell-in-Cell Invasion	Cell, 131, 966–979
Feb. 25	Travis Carney	Genome-wide maps of chromatin state in pluripotent and lineage-committed cells	Nature, 448, 553-560

Fall 2007

Date	Presenter	Topic	Publication
Oct. 8	Adam Miller	Early Embryonic Programming of Neuronal Left/Right Asymmetry in C. elegans	Current Biology, 16, 2279–2292
Oct. 15	Ryan Andersen
Oct. 22	Scott Atwood	Vessel and Blood Specification Override Cardiac Potential in Anterior Mesoderm	Developmental Cell, 13: 254-267
Oct. 29	Khoa Tran	Disrupted-In-Schizophrenia 1 Regulates Integration of Newly Generated Neurons in the Adult Brain	Cell, 130: 1146-1158
Nov. 5	J.T. Neal	Dynamic Decapentaplegic signaling regulates patterning and adhesion in the Drosophila pupal retina	Development, 134: 1861-1871
Nov. 12	Courtney Easley	Formation of Presynaptic Terminals at Predefined Sties along Azons	Jrnl of Neuroscience, 26 (42): 10813-825
Nov. 19	Jared Talbot	The Transcription Factor MEF2C is required for Craniofacial Development	Developmental Cell, 12: 645-652
Nov. 26	Phil Washbourne
Dec. 3	Jennifer Jeffress	α-Synuclein Cooperates with CSPα in Preventing Neurodegeneration	Cell, 123, 383–396
Dec. 10

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