Vertebrate Genomics Club, a.k.a "The Verge"

Presentations 2006-2007

DATE PRESENTERS
June 12, 2007 Vimal Selvaraj (Dr. Alex Travis Lab))
"The complexity of sperm membrane domains."
Miltos Kininis (Dr. W. Lee Kraus Lab)
"Genome-wide Analysis of RNA Polymerase II binding and Regulation by Estrogen Signaling."
May 8, 2007 Dr. Gudrun Reiterer (Dr. Andrew Yen Lab)
"The role of the PDGFR during myeloid and monocytic differentitation of HL-60 cells."
Maho Shibata (Dr. Maria Garcia-Garcia Lab)
"Bubbly yolk sacs in a KRAB zinc finger mutant mouse."
April 10, 2007 Dr. Donna Cassidy-Hanley (Dr. Theodore Clark Lab)
"Ich! What are those white spots on my fish? High-throughput sequencing and the search for biological control mechanisms against parasite infection."
Dr. Thomas Cleland
"Triangulating on the olfactory bulb: behavior, circuitry, and genetics."
March 13, 2007 Xia Xu (Genomics Scholar)
"A novel mouse lung cancer model based on overexpression of ribonucleotide reductase."
Li Han (Genomics Scholar)
"The role of Dlx3 in gene regulation in the mouse placenta."
February 13, 2007 Dr. Joseph Fetcho
"You can see into zebrafish and they have genes too."
Dr. Rebecca Holmes (Genomics Scholar)
"Meiosis and the Argonautes"
January 9, 2007 Dr. Ynte Schukken
"Survival of Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis in bovine monocyte-derived macrophages from infectious and non-infectious hosts."
Dr. Susan Quirk
"Transgenic models for studying the role of the hedgehog signaling pathway in the mammalian ovary."
December 12, 2006 Dr. Carlos Bustamante
"Statistical and computational methods for enabling association mapping in natural populations and domesticated species."
Dr. Bronislava Brejova (Dr. Adam Siepel Lab)
"Comparative single-exon gene finding."
November 14, 2006 Dr. S Sylvia Lee
"Systematic analysis of longevity determinants in C. elegans"
Mr. John Dominy (Dr. Martha Stipanuk Lab)
"Post-translational regulation of cysteine dioxygenase turnover by intracellular cysteine levels."
September 12, 2006 Dr. Yves Boisclair
"Role of the circulating IGF system in growth and metabolism"
Dr. James P. Camp (Tracy Stokol Lab)
"Engineering better bio research: using tissue engineering methods to make in vitro cultures give physiological results."

Presentations 2005-2006

DATE PRESENTERS
June 13, 2006 Karen Osorio (Dr. Tudorita Tumbar Lab)
"Hair follicle stem cell regulation."
Dr. Teresa Gunn
"Genetic and molecular studies of heart arrhythmias in dogs."
May 9, 2006 Dr. Koodali T. Nishant
"Molecular features of mammalian meiotic recombination hot spots."
Dr. Anders Lindroth (Dr. Paul Soloway Lab)
"Repeat-dependent epigenetic silencing at the imprinted Rasgrf1 locus."
April 11, 2006 Dr. Yung-Fu Chang
"Differentiation of Salmonella enterica serovars by oligonucleotide spotted array."
Dr. David McCobb
"Stress, steroids, and BK channels in adrenals and pituitaries."
March 14, 2006 Dr. Robert Weiss
"Genome maintenance by the Hus1 cell cycle checkpoint protein."
Mr. Scott Valastyan (Dr. Danny Manor Lab)
"Transcriptional activities of vitamin E."
February 14, 2006 Dr. John Schimenti
"Genetic and functional analysis of 1% of the mammalian development-ome."
Dr. Xingen Lei
"Mysterious responses to knockout of two major antioxidant enzymes."
January 10, 2006 Dr. Hong Bo Xin
"Conditional Gene Inactivation in the Mouse: Strategies and Applications."
Mr. Anton Svetlanov (Dr. Paula Cohen Lab)
"DNA Mismatch Repair proteins in mammalian meiosis-recombination, repair, repeats."
December 13, 2005 Dr. Mark Roberson
Cell signaling and the GnRH receptor: membrane compartments, signaling complexes and target genes."
Mr. Kevin Peterson (Dr. Timothy O'Brien Lab)
"Modeling the genomic regulatory network for FGF signaling input to the branching lung epithelium."
November 15, 2005 Dr. J. Thomas Brenna
"Long Chain Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids and Neonatal CNS Development. Non-human Primate Lipidomics and Transcriptomics."
Dr. Richard Goldstein
"Primary Hyperparathyroidism in the Keeshond. A Candidate Gene Approach"
October 11, 2005 Dr. Lisa Fortier
"Determining the role of Cdc42 in osteoarthritis."
Dr. Dan Luo
"Nucleic Acid Engineering: It's Applications in Biotechnology."
September 13, 2005 Dr. Rory Todhunter
"SNP strategy and selection for finer mapping of QTL for canine hip dysplasia."
Dr. Watt Webb
"Animal Genomic Models Help Move Microscopic Imaging Toward Human Medical Diagnostics."

Presentations 2004-2005

DATE PRESENTERS
June 14, 2005 Dr. Timothy DeVoogd
"Using genomic activation as a window into neural processing."
Ms. Maya Grose (Dr. Andre Bensadoun Lab)
"Investigating functions of the heparan sulfate proteoglycan syndecan-4 in lipid metabolism using a knockout mouse model"
May 10, 2005 Dr. Manuel Diaz-Rios (Dr. Harris-Warrick Lab)
"Serotonin modulation of commissural interneuron subtypes in the mouse spinal cord"
Dr. N. Yvonne Tallini (Dr. Kotlikoff Lab)
"Imaging Cellular Calcium in the Embryonic Murine Heart: In Vivo"
April 20, 2005 Mouse Debate
April 12, 2005 Dr. Amanda MacFarlane (Dr. Stover Lab)
"Genome Stability and Methylation in Colon Cancer Initiation"
Mr. Eric Williams (Dr. Lin Lab)
"Screen for axon guidance cues in the mouse olfactory bulb"
March 8, 2005 Dr. Shashikant Pujar (Dr. Meyers-Wallen Lab)
"Canine Sry-negative XX sex reversal: Candidate gene analysis"
Dr. Zongxiang Zhou (Dr. Nikitin Lab)
"Modeling prostate cancer in the mouse"
February 8, 2005 Dr. Bret Payseur (Dr. Andrew Clark Lab)
"Genomic signatures of speciation in inbred strains of mice"
Dr. Kate Whitlock
"Sex, Smells and Videotapes: Development of the Vertebrate Olfactory System"
January 11, 2005 Mr. Miltos Kininis (Dr. W. Lee Kraus Lab)
"Determining Patterns of Factor Recruitment to Estrogen-Regulated Genes on a Global Scale"
Dr. Anna Kukekova (Dr. Greg Acland lab)
"Strategies and applications of genetic mapping in canids"
December 14, 2004 Dr. Thomas Paul (James Casey Laboratory)
"Transgenic expression of walleye dermal sarcoma virus accessory proteins in zebrafish"
Dr. Alexander Travis
"Mice, cats, and dogs: three different models and three different approaches to preserving genetic diversity and creating tools for genomic research"