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Spring 2003
 
Wednesdays at 12:00 - 8th floor Lecture Hall (8-314)
 
Date Speaker Title
1/15/03 Tara Williams-Hart

Title: Leptin regulates bone formation via the sympathetic nervous system.

Paper: Takeda, S. et al. (2002) Cell 111, 305-317.

1/22/03 Cheryl Dixon

Title: Resistance of á-synuclein null mice to the parkinsonian neurotoxin MPTP.

Paper: (2002) PNAS 29 Oct, 99(22): .

2/5/03 Tzetanka Dinkova

Title: A Model for small interference and micro RNAs Mechanism of Function

Paper: Hutvagner G and Zamore PD. Science 297: 2056-2060

2/12/03 Srikripa Chandrasekaran

Title: RNA interference machinery regulates chromosome dynamics during mitosis and meiosis in fission yeast.

Paper: Hall IM, Noma K, Grewal SI.

2/19/03 Praveen Babu

Title: Rewiring MAP Kinase Pathways Using Alternative Scaffold Assembly Mechanisms

Paper: Sang-Hyun Park, Ali Zarrinpar, Wendell A. Lim (2003) Science February 14,. 299(5609): 1061-1064.

2/26/03 Jennifer Bharucha

Title: Role of Fas in recovery of nerve injury.

Paper: J Desbarats, R B Birge, M Mimouni-Rongy, D E Weinstein, J -S Palerme & M K Newell. (2003) Nature cell biology; 5, 2 pp 118 - 125.

3/12/03 Dr. Robert L. Smith

Title: The Versatile Proteasome - A new look at how it works.

Papers: Liu, C-W., Corboy, M.J., DeMartino, G.N., and Thomas, P.J. (2003) Science 299, 408.

03/26/03 Nadejda Korneeva

Title: Bcl-rambo beta, a special splicing variant with an insertion of an Alu-like cassette.

Papres: Cory, S. and Adams, J. (2002) Nature 2, 647-656,

04/09/03 Srikripa Balakrishnan

Title: Moleculare regulation of myogenesis

Paper: Asoke Mal and Marian L. Harter, (2003) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, Vol. 100, 1735-1739.

04/16/03 Jennifer Larson

Title: How Not to Inherit Your Mother’s Problems

Paper: H. Aguilianiu, L. Gustafsson, M. Rigoulet and T. Nyström, (2003) Science 299, 5613

04/23/03 Selena B. Kremer

Title: The Organizing Principle in the Formation of the T Cell Receptor-CD3 Complex

Paper: M. E. Call, J. Pyrdol, M. Wiedmann, and K. W. Wucherpfennig. (2002) Cell , December 27, Vol. 111, 967-979.

04/30/03 Steve Wolfe

Title: Tissue-specific Expression by Interference of Negative Regulators.

Paper: Niki, T., Takahashi-Niki, K., Taira, T., Iguchi-Ariga, S., and Ariga, H. (2003) Mol Cancer Res. 1(4):247-261.

05/07/03 Siddhartha Sen

Title: Soluble dimeric prion protein binds PrPSc in vivo and antagonizes prion disease.

Paper: P. Meier, N. Genoud, M. Prinz, M. Maissen, T. Rülicke, A. Zurbriggen, A. J. Raeber, and A. Aguzzi. (2003) Cell, Vol 113, pp. 49-60.

05/14/03 Jill Williams

Title: Old dogma, new tricks: the effects of hypoxia on tumor progression

Paper: Pennacchietti et al. (2003) Cancer Cell, (3): 347-361

05/21/03 Yihang Pan

Title: Inhibition of p53 protects liver tissue against endotoxin- induced apoptotic and necrotic cell death

Paper: Scha¨fer, T., Scheuer, C., Roemer, K., Menger, M. D., Vollmar, B (2003) FASEB J. 17, 660-667.

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