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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.

Graphical abstract.

Lillie joined the Drubin/Barnes Lab!

The Drubin/Barnes Yeast and HeLa Cell Manufacturing Company is excited to welcome Lillie Cohn as a new graduate student in the lab!  Lillie is a first year in the Molecular and Cell Biology program at UC-Berkeley.  Her proposed thesis project is “The Meaning of Life.”  On this occasion, let us pause to consider these wise words of the sage Philosoraptor:

Philosoraptor asks “what if finding the meaning of life is the meaning of life?”

Journal Club on Monday, April 16

For our next Journal Club, Christa Cortesio will present the following paper:

Distinct and separable activities of the endocytic clathrin-coat components Fcho1/2 and AP-2 in developmental patterning.  Umasankar PK, Sanker S, Thieman JR, Chakraborty S, Wendland B, Tsang M, Traub LM.  Nat Cell Biol. 2012 Apr 8. doi: 10.1038/ncb2473. PMID: 22484487.

Interaction diagram for FCHO1/2 and select endocytic pioneer coat components. Presumptive contacts are indicated with dotted lines.

Journal Club on Monday, April 2

For our next Journal Club, Sun Hae Hong will present the following paper:

Influence of synaptic vesicle position on release probability and exocytotic fusion mode.  Park H, Li Y, Tsien RW.  Science.  2012 Mar 16;335(6074):1362-6.  PMID: 22345401.

 

Journal Club on Wednesday, February 20

For our next Journal Club, Akemi Kunibe will be presenting the following paper:

Membrane Tension Maintains Cell Polarity by Confining Signals to the Leading Edge during Neutrophil Migration. Houk AR, Jilkine A, Mejean CO, Boltyanskiy R, Dufresne ER, Angenent SB, Altschuler SJ, Wu LF, Weiner OD. Cell. 2012 Jan 20;148(1-2):175-88. PMID: 22265410

 

Journal Club on Monday, February 6

For our next Journal Club, Jasper Weinberg will be presenting the following paper:

A molecular switch on an arrestin-like protein relays glucose signaling to transporter endocytosis.  Becuwe M, Vieira N, Lara D, Gomes-Rezende J, Soares-Cunha C, Casal M, Haguenauer-Tsapis R, Vincent O, Paiva S, Léon S.  J Cell Biol. 2012 Jan 23;196(2):247-59.  PMID: 22249293