Vertebrate Genomics Club, a.k.a "The Verge"
Presentations 2011-2012
| DATE | PRESENTERS |
| May 8, 2012 | Kimberly O'Brien
Placental /Fetal utilization of heme and non-heme iron |
| Shu-Bing Qian
Translational Control in Gene Expression: from Nutrients to Ribosome |
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| April 10, 2012 | Susan Suarez
Intimacy: Mammalian sperm interactions with the oviduct. |
| Alexander Travis
Lipid regulation of sperm calcium transients and acrosome exocytosis: key roles for GM1 and the a1E subunit. |
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| March 13, 2012 | Andrew Bass
Shared Evolutionary Developmental Origins for Neural Basis of Vocal and Gestural Signaling |
| Jeremy Searle
Origins and Impacts of Natural Chromosomal Variation in the Mouse |
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| February 14, 2012 | Zhenglong Gu
Regulatory Changes in Metabolic Adaptation. |
| Adam Siepel
Bayesian inference of ancient human demography from individual genome sequences. |
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| January 10, 2012 | Findley Ransler (Harrison Lab, collaborating with Adkins-Regan Lab)
Rapid evolution of genes encoding a unique reproductive proteome in Japanese quail. |
| Morten Christiansen
Common Genetic Variants in FOXP2 are Associated with Individual Differences in Language and Sequential Learning. |
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| December 13, 2011 | Marcus Smolka
Orchestration of the DNA damage response by checkpoint kinases |
| Haiyuan Yu
Revealing molecular mechanisms of human disease genes through interactome analysis |
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| November 8, 2011 | Natasza Kurpios
The Exquisite Dorsal Mesentery Directs Left-Right Gut Morphogenesis |
| Vimal Selveraj
Translocator Protein and Mitochondrial Cholesterol Trafficking |
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| October 11, 2011 | Christopher Blackwood (Lin Lab)
Regulation of Neurogenesis by Jagged1 in the Embryonic Subventricular Zone. |
| Joyce Huan Chen (Shen Lab)
Chemokine mediated colon cancer metastasis. |
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| September 13, 2011 | Erin Wissink (Grimson Lab)
Experimentally identifying novel post-transcriptional cis-regulatory elements. |
| Ali Raza Awan (Pleiss Lab)
Profiling Splicing via a Novel High-Throughput Sequencing Technique. |
Presentations 2010-2011
| DATE | PRESENTERS |
| June 14, 2011 | Lucia Martiniova (Stover Lab)
Mouse models to elucidate the mechanisms of foliate-responsive neural tube defects. |
| Vicki Meyers-Wallen
GWAS in a canine model of XX ovotesticular disorder of sexual development (XX DSD) |
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| May 10, 2011 | Patsy Brannon
Regulation of growth of placental trophoblasts by undernutrition and vitamin D |
| Eric Denkers
Putting Out Fire with Gasoline: What Inbred Mice and a Common Parasite can Tell Us About Inflammatory Bowel Disease in Humans |
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| April 12, 2011 | Haibo Sha, CVG Scholar (Qi Lab)
The IRE1a-XBP1 pathway in fat cells |
| Theodore Clark
Hijacking the regulated secretory pathway of Tetrahymena for production and streamlined purification of recombinant proteins. |
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| March 8, 2011 | Martha Stipanuk
The Cysteine Dioxygenase Knockout Mouse -- Metabolic Characterization |
| Susan Quirk
The hedgehog signaling pathway in ovarian development |
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| February 8, 2011 | Cornelia Scheitz (Tumbar Lab)
Of man and mice - Runx1 in squamous cell carcinom |
| Chang-Il Hwang (Nikitin Lab)
Wild-type p53 controls cell motility and invasion by feedforward loop regulation of MET expression |
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| January 11, 2011 | Charles Danko (Siepel Lab)
Variation in RNA Polymerase II Elongation Rate Controls mRNA Concentration |
| December 14, 2010 | Lisa Blum (Appleton Lab)
Sounding the alarmin: IL-33 amplifies the immune response to Trichinella spiralis. |
| Patrick Murphy (Soloway Lab)
Progression Toward Whole Genome Single Molecule High-Through-Put Epigenetic Detection. |
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| November 09, 2010 | Mark Roberson
The GnRH signaling network and endocrine control of fertility. |
| Zhiwu Zhang (Todhunter Lab)
Canine hip dysplasia is predictable by genotyping. |
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| October 12, 2010 | Karen Klemnec-Tyburczy
Amphibians, diseases, and declines: Molecular genetics of anuran hosts and fungal pathogen. |
| Qiaoming Long
Protein Quality Control in the ER and Pancreatic b-cell Functions. |
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| September 14, 2010 | Thomas Cleland
Cortical learning in microcosm: the olfactory bulb |
| Rebecca Tallmadge (Felippe Lab)
Seq'ing answers to CVID |
Presentations 2009-2010
| DATE | PRESENTERS |
| June 8, 2010 | Nathan Clark (Aquadro Lab)
"Mullet: a novel single copy metazoan gene that evolves by extensive insertion/deletion variation and has been the target of strong selection in Drosophila" |
| Joseph Fetcho
"A ground plan for the organization of the hindbrain." |
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| May 11, 2010 | Gregory Acland and Orly Goldstein
"The Continuing Search for Canine Retinal Degeneration Genes" |
| John Schimenti
"An overview of Cornell's Mammalian Cell Reprogramming Core Facility: from Bioinformatics to iPS cell" |
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| April 13, 2010 | Gretchen Mahler (Butcher Lab)
"Inflammation reactivates developmental programming in adult valve cells: Novel mechanisms for valve disease and regeneration" |
| Samantha Brooks
"Whole Genome SNP Association in the Horse: Identification of a Deletion in Myosin Va Responsible for Lavender Foal Syndrome" |
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| March 9, 2010 | Amanda Cass (McCune Lab)
"Of Mice and Fish: conservation and divergence in the expression of key lung morphogenesis genes in the actinopterygian swimbladder" |
| Jason Gallant (Hopkins Lab)
"Progress in identifying molecular mechanisms of signal evolution in the Mormyrid weakly electric fish" |
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| February 9, 2010 | Lindsey Trevino (Johnson Lab)
"Global gene expression analysis in ovarian cancer of the hen" |
| Irene Min (Lis Lab)
"Genome-wide views of rate-limiting steps in transcription in embryonic stem cells." |
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| January 12, 2010 | Chenxi Tian (Liu Lab)
"A conserved RGM family protein DRAG-1 in modulating TGFbeta signaling in C. elegans" |
| Melanie Craven (Simpson Lab)
"Granulomatous colitis in Boxer dogs" |
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| December 8, 2009 | Jennifer Page (Genomics Scholar, Weiss Lab)
"Lethal deregulation of ribonucleotide reductase in transgenic mice" |
| Xianfei Sun (Genomics Scholar, Cohen Lab)
"Structure -function analysis of mouse MLH3" |
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| November 10, 2009 | Benjamin Logsdon (Genomics Scholar, Mezey Lab)
"Reconstructing regulatory networks with random genetic perturbations" |
| Rodica P. Bunacia (Genomics Scholar, Yen Lab)
"Aryl-Hydrocarbon Receptor and Yamanaka-Thomson Factors in Self-Renewal and Differentiation" |
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| October 6, 2009 | Lori McPartlin (Genomics Scholar, Bedford-Guaus Lab)
"The role of the novel cAMP target Epac in stallion sperm capacitation" |
| Xu Wang (Genomics Scholar, A. Clark Lab)
"Global profiling of allelic imbalance in the mouse" |
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| September 8, 2009 | Ashley Woods (Genomics Scholar, Davisson Lab)
"Examining Developmental Defects in a Mouse Model of Pre-Eclampsia, BPH/5 |
| Maria Garcia-Garcia
"Mechanisms underlying axis extension and morphogenesis of extraembryonic tissues in mouse embryos (three years and two mutants later)." |
Presentations 2008-2009
| DATE | PRESENTERS |
| June 9, 2009 | Dr. Tracy Stokol
"Comparative aspects of tissue factor - a key hemostatic protein." |
| Terri Iwata (S. Lee Lab) "Investigating HCF proteins as regulators of FOXO and SIRT1 metabolic function." |
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| May 12, 2009 | Dr. Nathan Sutter
"The genetics of skeletal size in domestic dogs and horses." |
| Dr. Ling Qi "Protein Folding and Inflammation in Obesity and Diabetes" |
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| April 14, 2009 | Dr. Dorothy Ainsworth
"What gene expression studies have taught us about equine recurrent airway obstruction." |
| Dr. Richard Goldstein "Advances in Feline Genomics" |
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| March 10, 2009 | Dr. Elizabeth Buckles
"Host response to acute infection with Infectious Bronchitis Virus." |
| Dr. Jenifer Cruickshank (Place Lab) "A putative splice variant of anti-Müllerian hormone receptor missing the transmembrane domain." |
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| February 10, 2009 | Dr. Teresa Gunn
"Using mouse genetics to understand the cell biology of spongiform neurodegeneration." |
| Dr. Marko Vatamaniuk (Lei Lab) "The mechanisms of hyperinsulinemia in Gpx1 overexpressing mice." |
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| January 13, 2009 | Dr. Joy Scaria (YF Chang Lab)
"Analysis of the massive genome variation in Clostridium difficile; a pathogen with unusually low core genome content." |
| Dr. John Schimenti Discussion of CVG Funding Priorities |
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| December 9, 2008 | Dr. Rui Kan (Coonrod Lab)
"Role for PADI6 and the cytoplasmic lattices in tubulin storage and meiotic spindle assembly in mouse oocyte" |
| Dr. Kira Novakofski (Fortier Lab) "Small GTPases in articular chondrocytes" |
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| November 11, 2008 | Dr. Kumar Kothapalli (Brenna Lab)
"A partial reexamination of primate polyunsaturated fatty acid biosynthesis by cloning and characterization of baboon fatty acid desaturase (FADS) genes." |
| Dr. Kevin Harvatine (Boisclair Lab) "Fatty acid regulation of lipid synthesis: Insights from various mouse lactation models" |
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| October 14, 2008 | Dr. John Schimenti
"Genomic etiology of mouse tumors caused by DNA replication deficiency." |
| Dr. Douglas Antczak "Horse Genome Project" |
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| September 9, 2008 | Mr. Jong Bum Lee (Luo Lab)
"DNA based target-driven polymerization for pathogen detection." |
| Dr. Watt Webb "Forthcoming Efficient Deciphering of Vertebrate Genetic Codes." |
Presentations 2007-2008
| DATE | PRESENTERS |
| June 10, 2008 | Dr. David Lin
"One-carbon metabolism and the mouse olfactory system." |
| Dr. Shelby Dietz (Harris-Warrick Lab) "Use of transgenic GFP-tagged mice to explore the central pattern generator for locomotion in the mouse spinal cord." |
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| May 13, 2008 | Anna Beaudin (Stover Lab)
"Managing Genome Synthesis and Stability: Mechanisms of Folate Responsive Neural Tube Defects" |
| Dr. Michael Craven (Kotlikoff Lab) "Characterization of Neonatal Cardiac Precursor Cells from c-kit BAC-EGFP Mice." |
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| April 8, 2008 | Dr. Andre Bensadoun
"GPIHBP-1, a novel receptor for chylomicrons, lipoprotein lipase and HDL" |
| Dr. Anthony Lombardino(DeVoogd Lab) "Transcription profiling of replaceable neurons from songbirds and mice." |
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| March 11, 2008 | Dr. Patsy Brannon
"Maternal malnutrition and regulation of placental growth" |
| Dr. Shashikant Pujar (Meyers-Wallen Lab) "Genetic heterogeneity in mammalian sex reversal." |
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| February 12, 2008 | Genomics Scholar: Ying Zhang
"Characterization of Stem Cell Proliferation Dynamics in Mouse Hair Follicles" |
| Dr. Rory Todhunter "SNPs Predict Susceptibility to Canine Hip Dysplasia" |
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| January 8, 2008 | Dr. Anders Lindroth (Paul Soloway Lab)
"DNA and H3K27 methylation are mutually antagonizing epigenetic marks at the imprinted Rasgrf1 locus" |
| Kevin Harvatine (Dale Bauman Lab) "Regulation of Milk Fat Synthesis: Nutrigenomics and the Low-Fat Milk Syndrome" |
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| December 11, 2007 | Benjamin Logsdon (Dr. Jason Mezey Lab)
"Learning Pathway and Network Structure from Gene Expression and Genotypic Data" |
| Dr. Eric Denkers "Adaptive immunity to an intracellular protozoan in the absence of the Toll-like receptor adaptor MyD88" |
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| November 13, 2007 | Genomics Scholars: Ryan Hernandez "Population Genetic Inference in Primates: The Effect of Context-Dependent Mutation Rates" |
| Elizabeth Bassity "Searching for Antigen Presenting Cells in Fish" |
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| October 16, 2007 | Genomics Scholars: Kevin Peterson "Computational and Experimental Interrogation of the Genomic Regulatory Landscape" |
| David Corney "Identification and characterization of miR-34b/c: a p53-dependent microRNA cluster" |
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| September 11, 2007 | Dr. Qiaoming Long
"Rfxdc1 is a novel molecular marker for multipotent pancreatic progenitor cells" |
| Amy Bentley and Susan Wernimont (Dr. Cassano Lab) "Genomic Approaches to Study Metabolic Networks in Human Populations" |
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." |
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| 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." |
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| 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." |
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| 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." |
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| 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" |
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| 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." |
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| 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." |
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| 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." |
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| 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." |
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| 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." |
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| 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." |
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| 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." |
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| 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." |
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| 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." |
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| 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." |
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| 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" |
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| October 11, 2005 | Dr. Lisa Fortier
"Determining the role of Cdc42 in osteoarthritis." |
| Dr. Dan Luo
"Nucleic Acid Engineering: It's Applications in Biotechnology." |
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| 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" |
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| 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" |
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| 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" |
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| 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" |
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| 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" |
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| 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" |