Journal Clubs
Cell & Developmental Biology
Gene Regulation and Epigenetics
Graduate Student Rotation Talks
Winter term rotation talks will be held in 331 Klamath. Each student will give a 10 to 12 minute presentation of their project and leave several minutes for questions. If you have any questions regarding rotation talks, please contact Ken Prehoda or Tory Herman.
| Ph.D. Final Oral Defense |
| Date | Candidate | Place |
| Mon, April 13th 11am |
Jana Marcette Jacobson The Maguk Discs-Large utilizes modular allostery to regulate intramolecular and intermolecular interactions and spindle orientation |
240 Willamette |
| Fri, May 8th 10:00 AM |
Derek Ricketson Mechanism of Drosophila Non-Muscle Myosin II Filament Assembly |
128 Chiles |
| Tues, June 9th, 3:00 PM | Eric Nicolas Senning Mitochondrial Dynamics and Optical Conformation Changes in DsRed as Studied by Fourier Imaging Correlation Spectroscopy |
240 Willamette |
| Thurs, July 30th, 1:00 PM | Charles Kubicek Identifying targets and function of the ubiquitin related modifier urm1 in Saccharomyces cerevisiae |
331 Klamath |
| Thurs, Aug 6th, 4:00 PM | Bryan Warf The regulation of Alternative Splicing Associated with Myotonic Dystrophy |
110 Willamette |
| Friday Nov 20, 3:00 p.m. |
Jana Prikryl Functions of Organelle-Specific Nucleic Acid Binding Protein Families in Chloroplast Gene Expression |
166 Lawrence |
| Wed, Nov 18 10:00 a.m. |
Scott Holbrook Making a Connection: Single Mutant Neuron Seeks Partner |
227 Chiles |
| Student Research Reports 2009 |
Research reports are given on Fridays in 331 Klamath Hall at 12:00 noon. |
Fall 2009
| Date | Speaker |
| Oct 2 | Greg Finnigan Structure and Assembly of the Yeast V- ATPase |
| Oct 9 | John Paul Allee HIF-1 confers hypoxia tolerance to flies and inhibits growth by repressing Insulin/IGF-like signaling through promoting Imp-L2 expression |
| Oct 16 | Clemens Cabernard (postdoc) The function of spindle orientation in asymmetrically dividing neural stem cells in Drosophila |
| Oct 23 | J.T. Neal Effects of the H. Pylori virulence factor CagA on epithelial integrity and homeostasis in the Zebrafish intestine |
| Oct 30 | Khoa Tran Transcriptional regulation of Drosophila neuroblast competence: The Hunchback story |
| Nov 6 | Clair Romelfanger Signaling Specificity in the Filamentous Growth MAP Kinase Pathway of Saccharomyces cerevisiae |
| Nov 13 | Ryan Andersen Mechanisms of Asymmetric Cell Division: Microtubule Induced Polarity in Drosophila Larval Neuroblasts |
| Nov 20 | Meredith Price |
| Nov 27 | THANKSGIVING BREAK |
| Dec 4 | Michelle Lu |
Winter 2010
| Date | Speaker |
| Jan 8 | Nick Smith |
| Jan 15 | Jennifer Jeffress |
| Jan 22 | Chong Liu (postdoc) |
| Jan 29 | Luke Ward |
| Feb 5 | Mike Miller |
| Feb 12 | Devika Gates |
| Feb 19 | Leslie VanOs |
| Feb 26 | Joshua Troll (postdoc) |
| Mar 5 | Anica Wandler |
| Mar 12 | Jon Kniss |
Spring 2010
| Date | Speaker |
| Apr 2 | Elizabeth Perry |
| Apr 9 | Kirsy Jamieson |
| Apr 16 | Paul Barber |
| Apr 23 | Travis Carney |
| Apr 30 | Chiharu Graybill |
| May 7 | Zac Stephens |
| May 14 | Marisa Connell |
| May 21 | Ye Yang |
| May 28 | Jamie Purcell |
| Jun 4 | Ryan Frei |
297 Klamath Hall Hall