Friday, December 2, 2011

Dec. 6, 2011 journal club

  • When: Tuesday, Dec.6, 12:15 PM
  • Where: Room E6519, BSPH
Big thanks to Kate Laws of the Drummond-Barbosa lab for volunteering (quite spontaneously) to present for this journal club meeting!! She'll be presenting:

String (Cdc25) regulates stem cell maintenance, proliferation and aging in Drosophila testis
Inaba, Yuan, and Yamashita [lab link]
Development, 138: 5079-5086

Kate's comments about this paper: "Previous papers from the Yamashita lab have addressed centrosome orientation and cell adhesion in the asymmetric division of Drosophila male GSCs, which is definitely interesting (and came up quite a bit during Xin Chen's lecture here last month). While this paper finds no role for String in spindle orientation of GSC or the somatic stem cells in the testis niche, it does deal with another question that's close to both my heart and the hearts of those in my lab: do stem cells regulate their cell cycle differently than their progeny? Additionally, Yukiko was awarded a MacArthur Genius Grant earlier this year!"

And as a warm-up for journal club, be sure to go support Kate in her alter ego role, Commander Kate of the JHSPH Happy Hour!