SPRING 2008
Cornell University. BioG400-6. Spring, 2008. 1 credit. (S/U only).
This Biology Journal Club is intended for Biology undergraduates who wish to become familiar with the scientific literature in modern biology by learning to read, analyze, understand, and present summaries of original research papers in biology. Meetings will be held once per week during the regular academic semester. Grades will be based on attendance and upon making one presentation. Papers will be selected by the class participants, and by the undergraduate volunteer teaching assistant. Faculty will be available to give advice and help with the selection and interpretation of papers. The subject matter will cover different fields of biology: neurobiology, development, genetics, molecular biology, botany, and environment and ecology.
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| 01/30/08 |
Undergraduate Journal Club |
Hopkins |
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| 02/06/08 |
Ascorbic Acid Decreases the Binding Affinity of the AT1 Receptor for Angiotensin II |
JR Cho, Jason Bierig |
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| 02/13/08 |
Evolution and Development: Transcriptional Regulation of Pituitary POMC is Conserved in Vertebrates Despite Promoter Sequence Divergence |
Nicholas Van Kuren, Stephanie Torres |
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| 02/20/08 |
ENTOSIS: It's a cell-eat-cell world!
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Laura Seeholzer, Diane Wang |
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| 02/27/08 |
GENOME TRANSPLANT. Genome Transplantation in Bacteria: Changing One Species to Another. Science. 3 Aug. 2007. Vol. 317. no. 5838, pp. 632 - 638. Carole Lartigue et al. (Venter Lab)
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Igor Nikolskiy, Natalie Johnson |
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| 03/05/08 |
BRAINBOW: Combinatorial
expression of fluorescent proteins in the
nervous system. Nature. 450:56 (1 Nov 2007). Jean Livet et al., |
Raymond Wu, Peter Wang, Laurent Ehrlich |
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| 03/12/08 |
Gilbert Gallardo, Oliver M Schleuter& Thomas C Seudhof (2008) A molecular pathway of neurodegeneration linking
a-synuclein to ApoE and Ab peptides. NATURE NEUROSCIENCE VOLUME 11, NUMBER 3, MARCH 2008 |
Miguel Rosado, Carlos Arbelaez |
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| 03/19/08 |
SPRING BREAK - NO MEETING |
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| 03/26/08 |
Kazutoshi Takahashi, Koji Tanabe, Mari Ohnuki, Megumi Narita, Tomoko Ichisaka, Kiichiro Tomoda
and Shinya Yamanaka (2007) Induction of Pluripotent Stem Cells from Adult Human Fibroblasts. Cell 131, 861–872. |
Jasmine Barrow, James Wheelock
Matthew Coppola
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| 04/02/08 |
Tabar, V., Tomishima, M., Panagiotakos, G., Wakayama, S., Menon, J., Chan, B., Mizutani, E., Al-Shamy, G., Ohta, H., Wakayama, T. et al. (2008). Therapeutic cloning in individual parkinsonian mice. Nat Med advanced online publication. 23 March 2008 | doi:10.1038/nm1732
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Stephen Park, John Kleimeyer |
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| 04/09/08 |
Samant, S., Lee, H., Ghassemi, M., Chen, J., Cook, J. L., Mankin, A. S. and Neyfakh, A. A. (2008). Nucleotide Biosynthesis Is Critical for Growth of Bacteria in Human Blood. PLoS Pathogens 4, e37. |
Lu Yang, Alec Eason |
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| 04/16.08 |
A KISS TO REMEMBER
Jun-ichi Tanaka, Yoshihiro Horiike, Masanori Matsuzaki, Takashi Miyazaki, Graham C. R. Ellis-Davies, and Haruo Kasai
Science 21 March 2008: 1683-1687. |
Carl Hopkins
Peter Wang
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| 04/23/08 |
Joffre, O. et al., (2008) Prevention of acute and chronic allograft rejection with
CD4+CD25+Foxp3+ regulatory T lymphocytes Nature Medicine. 14(1) 88. |
Amanda Podolski, Tracy Liang |
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| 04/30/08 |
Open Discussion and Evaluation: The Value of Biology Journal Club for Undergraduates -- PIZZA DINNER at The HOPKINS' |
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