Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Oct. 5, 2010 journal club

When and where:
Room E6519 (same as Sept. 21), Tuesday, Oct. 5, 12:15.

Elizabeth from the Drummond-Barbosa lab will be presenting:

Control of mammary stem cell function by steroid hormone signaling
Asselin-Labet et al.
Nature 465: 798-802

As Elizabeth notes, "It's not ovary or testes related, but there is more to 'reproductive biology' (at least in mammals) than just those two organs!" Indeed ... and I say double-bonus that this paper has stem cells and steroids in it.

FYI - Corresponding author Geoff Lindemann website

Wednesday, September 22, 2010

Seminar of interest, Sept. 27, 2010

This coming Monday will be the Larry L. Ewing Lecture, and the speaker this year is Haifan Lin of Yale University, and the title of his talk is, "A novel small RNA-mediated epigenetic mechanism related to stem cells." (some pretty darn good keywords, huh!?) For those interested, here is a link to a semi-recent (2007) review on piRNAs and the proteins with which they interact; the seminar will present Haifan's latest findings.

Date: Sept. 27, 2010; 4:00 PM (to be followed by a reception)
Place: Sheldon Hall (Room W1214), Bloomberg School of Public Health

Should be a winner (not to mention a nice way to celebrate the life of Larry Ewing) ... please come!

Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Sept. 21, 2010 journal club

The where and when:
Room E6519 in the SPH, Tuesday, September 21 at 12:15.

We'll venture into developmental biology relevant to reproductive biology, with Erin's presentation of:

Notch and Egft signaling act antagonistically to regulate germ-line stem cell niche formation in Drosophila male embryonic gonads

Kitadate and Kobayashi, PNAS 2010, 107: 14241-14246

Wednesday, September 1, 2010

RBJC schedule for fall 2010

Our meetings for September-December are below --
every other Tuesday, 12:15-1:30
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  • Presenters - The room reservation starts at 12:00, so you can get in a little early for set-up.
  • Everyone - Please note that we are in two different rooms (alas, we couldn't get E6519 for all our meetings).
9/21/10 - Erin Stanley (Zirkin lab) - Room E6519 (6th floor, southern side of bldg)
10/5/10 - Elizabeth Ables (Drummond-Barbosa lab) - Room E6519
10/19/10 - Lauren Matthews (Evans lab) - Room E6519
11/2/10 - Jenn Wang (Seydoux lab) - Room E6519
11/16/10 - Leesa LaFever
(Drummond-Barbosa lab) - Room W2303
11/30/10 - Min-Young Kim
(Drummond-Barbosa lab) - Room W2303
12/14/10 - Hyo Lee
(Evans lab) - Room W2303

(Thanks to everyone who stepped up to present in the first part of the academic year! I'll be after more recruits for starting in January 2011.)

BTW, if you want to present a paper that is linked with your own research, great -- but that's not a requirement. Just choose a paper that's interesting and discussion-worthy! For presentation of your own research, we'll experiment with an alternative to what we did last year (i.e., present the paper, then discuss how your research fits in) ... more to come on this when we meet.