Category Archives: Announcements

Journal Club on Monday, Feb. 7

For our Journal Club on February 7, Yansong Miao will present the following paper:

Rocket launcher mechanism of collaborative actin assembly defined by single-molecule imaging. Breitsprecher D, Jaiswal R, Bombardier JP, Gould CJ, Gelles J, Goode BL. Science. 2012 Jun 1;336(6085):1164-8. doi: 10.1126/science.1218062. PMID: 22654058

Journal Club on Monday, January 7

For our Journal Club on January 7, Yidi Sun presented the following paper:

PtdIns4P synthesis by PI4KIIIα at the plasma membrane and its impact on plasma membrane identity.  Nakatsu F, Baskin JM, Chung J, Tanner LB, Shui G, Lee SY, Pirruccello M, Hao M, Ingolia NT, Wenk MR, De Camilli P.  J Cell Biol. 2012 Dec 10;199(6):1003-16.  PMID:  23229899.

Journal Club on Monday, November 5

For Journal Club on November 5, Nate Krefman presented the following papers on Golden Gate Cloning:

A one pot, one step, precision cloning method with high throughput capability. Engler C, Kandzia R, Marillonnet S. PLoS One. 2008;3(11):e3647. PMID: 18985154.

Golden gate shuffling: a one-pot DNA shuffling method based on type IIs restriction enzymes. Engler C, Gruetzner R, Kandzia R, Marillonnet S. PLoS One. 2009;4(5):e5553. PMID: 19436741.

A modular cloning system for standardized assembly of multigene constructs. Weber E, Engler C, Gruetzner R, Werner S, Marillonnet S. PLoS One. 2011 Feb 18;6(2):e16765. PMID: 21364738.

Journal Club on Monday, October 1

For our next Journal Club, Padmini Rangamani will present the following paper:

Phase transitions in the assembly of multivalent signalling proteins. Li P, Banjade S, Cheng HC, Kim S, Chen B, Guo L, Llaguno M, Hollingsworth JV, King DS, Banani SF, Russo PS, Jiang QX, Nixon BT, Rosen MK. Nature. 2012. PMID: 22398450

Journal Club on Thursday, July 26

For our next Journal Club, our summer undergraduate researcher Josh Johnson will present the following paper:

Aurora B dynamics at centromeres create a diffusion-based phosphorylation gradient.  Wang E, Ballister ER, Lampson MA.  J Cell Biol. 2011 Aug 22;194(4):539-49.  PMID: 21844210.

Journal Club on Monday, June 25

For Journal Club on Monday, June 25, Connie Peng presented the following paper:

Functional Repurposing Revealed by Comparing S. pombe and S. cerevisiae Genetic Interactions.  Frost A, Elgort MG, Brandman O, Ives C, Collins SR, Miller-Vedam L, Weibezahn J, Hein MY, Poser I, Mann M, Hyman AA, Weissman JS.  Cell. 2012 Jun 8;149(6):1339-52.  PMID: 22682253.

Journal Club on Monday, April 30

For our next Journal Club, Rebecca Lu will present the following paper:

Membrane Fission Is Promoted by Insertion of Amphipathic Helices and Is Restricted by Crescent BAR Domains. Boucrot E, Pick A, Camdere G, Liska N, Evergren E, McMahon HT, Kozlov MM.  Cell. 2012 Mar 30;149(1):124-36. PMID: 22464325.