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Gene Regulation and Epigenetics Journal club

Instructors: Eric Selker and Andy Berglund

Meetings are held every Thursday at 4:00 PM in the Novick Room, 225 Streisinger, unless otherwise noted.

Fall 2007

Date Presenter Topic Journal *(see below)
Oct. 18 Durgadas Kasbekar

Selective Chromatid Segregation in Mammals
- Discovery and Implications

Left-Right Dynein Motor Implicated in Selective Chromatid Segregation in Mouse Cells

Background papers:
1) Efficient Cre-loxP–induced mitotic recombination in mouse embryonic stem cells
2) Cell Type Regulates Selective Segregation of Mouse Chromosome 7 DNA Strands in Mitosis
3) A Hypothesis for How Chromosome 11 Translocations Cause Psychiatric Disorders

Science 315, 100 (2007)

 

 

1) Nature Genetics, 30, 66 - 72 (2002)
2) Science, 311, 1146 (2006)
3) Genetics, Web Published Articles Ahead of Print (2007)

Oct. 25 Eric Selker A histone H3 lysine 27 demethylase regulates animal posterior development
Nature 449, 689-694 (11 October 2007)
Nov. 1 Andy Berglund Structure and Mechanism
of a Metal-Sensing Regulatory RNA
Cell 130, 878-892 (September 7, 2007)
Nov. 8 Devika Shah

Interferon regulatory factor-3 is an in vivo target of DNA-PK
PNAS 99(5); 2818-2823 (March 5, 2002)
Nov. 15 Anica Wandler DNA damage response and MCL-1 destruction initate apoptosis in adenovirus-infected cells.
 Genes and Development 17(18), 2922-2932(Nov 2003)
Nov. 29 Luke Ward The Drosophila RNA Methyltransferase, DmHen1, Modifies Germline piRNAs and Single-Stranded siRNAs in RISC
 Current Biology 17(14):1265-72 (Jul 17 2007).
Dec. 6
Finals Week

Winter 2008

Date Presenter Topic Journal
Jan. 10
Zach Lewis

Host genome surveillance for retrotransposons by transposon-derived proteins.
Nature. 2007 Dec 19 [Epub ahead of print]
Jan. 17
Emily Goers
RNA-Binding Protein Dnd1 Inhibits MicroRNA Access to Target mRNA.
Cell.131(7):1273-86 (2007 Dec 28).
Jan. 24
Shinji Honda
Phosphorylation of histone H3 at threonine 11 establishes a novel chromatin mark for transcriptional regulation
Nature Cell Biology - 10, 53 - 60 (2008)
Jan. 31
Diane Hawley
Structure of the Dual Enzyme Ire1 Reveals the Basis for Catalysis and Regulation in Nonconventional RNA Splicing
Feb. 7
Keyur Adhvaryu
Arginine methylation at histone H3R2 controls
deposition of H3K4 trimethylation
Nature 449, 928-932 (18 October 2007)
Feb. 14
Rodger Voelker
Structural Variations in the Human Genome. Science 318:420-26 (2007)
Science 318:1842-43 (2007)
Feb. 21


Feb. 28
Anthony Shiver
Shotgun bisulphite sequencing of the Arabidopsis genome reveals DNA methylation patterning
Mar. 6
Sandra Grieve
RNA polymerase II pauses and associates with pre-mRNA processing factors at both ends of genes
Mar. 13



Spring 2008

Date Presenter Topic Journal
Apr. 3



Apr. 10
Jana Prikryl
ATM regulates the length of individual telomere tracts in Arabidopsis
Apr. 17



Apr. 24
Leslie VanOs
Long-range chromosomal interactions regulate the timing of the transition between poised and active gene expression
Apr. 31



May 1


May 15
Bryan Warf


May 22
Alice Barkan


 

* Journal Access: Where possible the link points to the publisher's website, and uses the UofO's subscription information. You will either need to be PHYSICALLY on the UofO campus, or connected via the campus VPN. Articles that cannot be accessed this way are stored in a password protected directory that is ALSO only accessible from the UofO network (physical or VPN).

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