Bi-monthly meeting of New England C: elegans workers.
Pizza and four research talks of about 20-25
minutes, with breaks for conversation.
We
meet at 6:00 PM in the first floor conference room of the MIT Biology building.
BAWM food and drink is enabled by financial
support from…..
USA Scientific
BioExpress
Genesee
2011/2012 Schedule
September 14, 2011
1: Kevin Collins (Koelle lab) "ERG potassium channels limit postsynaptic excitability
to allow the same C. elegans muscle cells to execute distinct behaviors." 2: Dengke Ma (Horvitz lab) "HYP-1
and EGL-9 mediate H2S-induced HIF-1 activation and O2-dependent behavioral
plasticity" 3: Hilary Prescott (Francis lab) "ACR-12
receptor signaling complexes coordinate motor neuron activity" 4: Tomoko Tabuchi (Hagstrom
lab) "DRM complex controls X chromosome-linked gene
expression in germline by antagonizing histone methyltransferase
MES-4"
November 2, 2011
1: Eric Greer (Yang
Shi lab) "Transgenerational epigenetic inheritance of extended
longevity induced by chromatin modifiers in C. elegans" 2: Liakot Khan (Gobel
lab) "ERM-1/ezrin-radixin-moesin cooperates with
AQP-8/Aquaporin in unicellular tubulogenesis" 3: Will Mair
(Mair lab) "Targeting longevity-specific targets
of AMPK to promote healthy aging." 4: Elaine Youngman "A comparative genomic search for
factors controlling biogenesis of 22G RNAs in C. elegans" (Mello lab)
December 14, 2011
1: Jason Heustis (Fuhrman lab) "Pharyngeal Polysaccharide Deacetylases Affect C.
elegans Development and Deacetylate Chitin In Vitro" 2: Sylvia Fischer (Ruvkun lab) "The
conserved ERI-6/7 helicase acts in an endogenous RNAi pathway that targets
recently duplicated genes." 3: Andrew Allen (Whetstine
lab) "The
Histone Demethlyase KDM4/JMD-2 Regulates a
Population-Dependent Behavior by Modulating Polyunsaturated Fatty Acid
Signaling" 4: Ni Ji (Van Oudenaarden
Lab) "Elucidating the Functional Role of Redundant Wnt
Receptors in the Migrating Q neuroblasts in Caenorhabditis elegans"
February 22, 2012
1: Melissa LaBonty "CACN-1 is a novel negative
regulator of Wnt Signaling" (Cram lab) 2: David Doroquez"Endocytosis genes facilitate protein and membrane transport in
C. elegans sensory cilia" (Sengupta
lab) 3: Nikhil Bhatla
(Horvitz lab) 4: Ian McLachlan (Heiman
lab)
April 4, 2012
1: TBA (Blackwell
lab) 2: Amy Walker (Walker
lab) 3: Alex Byrne (Hammarlund lab)
4: TBA (TBA lab)
May 9, 2012
1: Steve von Stetina
(Mango lab) 2: TBA (Kim
lab) 3: Daniel Jost (Erel
Levine lab) "The
proliferation/meiotic entry decision in the germline of C. elegans" 4: TBA (TBA lab)
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