Past Journal Club

6/3/08 -

Dan Skelly
Jaillon O, Bouhouche K, Gout J-F, et al. 2008. Translational control of intron splicing in eukaryotes. Nature 451(7176):359-362

Cailyn Spurrell
Saima Malik, Francis McGlone, Diane Bedrossian, and Alain Dagher, Ghrelin Modulates Brain Activity in Areas that Control Appetitive Behavior, Cell Metabolism, Vol 7, 400-409, 07 May 2008

5/27/08 -

Renee George
Nutritional Control of Reproductive Status in Honeybees via DNA Methylation
R. Kucharski, J. Maleszka, S. Foret, and R. Maleszka (28 March 2008) Science 319 (5871), 1827.

Rupali Patwardhan
Eberle AB, Stalder L, Mathys H, Orozco RZ, Mühlemann O (2008) Posttranscriptional Gene Regulation by Spatial Rearrangement of the 3′ Untranslated Region. PLoS Biol 6(4): e92 doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0060092

5/20/08 -

Ray Malfavon-Borja
Hirofumi Nariya and Masayori Inouye. MazF, an mRNA Interferase, Mediates Programmed Cell Death during Multicellular Myxococcus Development. Cell. 2008. Jan 11 ;132(1):55-66.

Sarah Ng
Cell-to-Cell Stochastic Variation in Gene Expression is a Complex Genetic Trait. Juliet Ansel, Hélène Bottin, Camilo Rodriguez-Beltran, Christelle Damon, Muniyandi Nagarajan, Steffen Fehrmann, Jean François, Gaël Yvert PLoS Genetics, 4(4):e1000049

5/13/08 -

Alex Nord
Kleinman et al.. Sequence- and target-independent angiogenesis suppression by siRNA via TLR3. Nature. 2008 Apr 3;452(7187):591-7. PMID: 18368052

Sayer Herin
Reyeslamothe et al. Independent Positioning and Action of Escherichia coli Replisomes in Live Cells. Cell (2008) vol. 133 (1) pp. 90-102

5/6/08 -

Andy Itsara
"Superwobbling facilitates translation with reduced tRNA sets." Marcelo Rogalski, Daniel Kacher & Ralph Bock. Nat Struct Mol Biol. 2008 Feb;15(2):192-8. Epub 2008 Jan 13

Caitlin Rippey
Krishnan V, Han MH, Graham DL, Berton O, Renthal W, Russo SJ, Laplant Q, Graham A, Lutter M, Lagace DC, Ghose S, Reister R, Tannous P, Green TA, Neve RL, Chakravarty S, Kumar A, Eisch AJ, Self DW, Lee FS, Tamminga CA, Cooper DC, Gershenfeld HK, Nestler EJ. Molecular adaptations underlying susceptibility and resistance to social defeat in brain reward regions. Cell. 2007 Oct 19;131(2):391-404.

4/29/08 -

Josh Akey
Sturm RA, Duffy DL, Zhao ZZ, Leite FP, Stark MS, Hayward NK, Martin NG, Montgomery GW. (2008) A single SNP in an evolutionary conserved region within intron 86 of the HERC2 gene determines human blue-brown eye color. Am J Hum Genet. 82:424-431.

4/22/08 -

Mike MacCoss
Bacteria Subsisting on Antibiotics. Gautam Dantas, Morten O. A. Sommer, Rantimi D. Oluwasegun, and George M. Church. Science 4 April 2008: 100-103.

Colin Manoil
Kohanski MA, Dwyer DJ, Hayete B, Lawrence CA, Collins JJ. A common mechanism of cellular death induced by bactericidal antibiotics. Cell. 2007 Sep 7;130(5):797-810.

4/15/08 -

Bob Waterston

Geoff Findlay
Ishibashi, K., K. Masuda, S. Naito, T. Meshi and M. Ishikawa. 2007.
An inhibitor of viral RNA replication is encoded by a plant resistance
gene. PNAS 104: 13833-13838.

4/8/08 -

James Thompson
"BLOSUM62 Miscalculations Improve Search Performance." Styczynski MP, Jensen KL, Rigoutsos I, Stephanopoulos G. Nat Biotechnol. 2008 Mar;26(3):274-5.

Troy Zerr
Huichen Feng, Masahiro Shuda, Yuan Chang, and Patrick S. Moore Clonal Integration of a Polyomavirus in Human Merkel Cell Carcinoma Science. 22 February 2008 319: 1096-1100

4/1/08 -

Steve Salipante
Identification of host proteins required for HIV infection through a functional genomic screen. Brass AL, Dykxhoorn DM, Benita Y, Yan N, Engelman A, Xavier RJ, Lieberman J, Elledge SJ. Science. 2008 Feb 15;319(5865):921-6.

Ryan Emerson
Lethargus is a Caenorhabditis elegans sleep-like state. Raizen DM, Zimmerman JE, Maycock MH, Ta UD, You Y-j, Sundaram MV, Pack AI. Nature. 2008 Jan 31;451(7178):569-72.

3/11/08 -

Bonny Brewer
A genetic code alteration generates a proteome of high diversity in the human pathogen Candida albicans. AC Gomes, I Miranda, RM Silva, GR Moura, B Thomas, A Akoulitchev and MAS Santos. Genome Biology (2007) 8:R206.

Kristen Lewis
Sulem et al. 2007. Genetic determinants of hair, eye and skin pigmentation in Europeans. Nature Genetics 39, 1443 - 1452

3/4/08 -

Stan Fields
Nature. 2008 451:720-4. Rapid appearance and local toxicity of amyloid-beta plaques in a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease. Meyer-Luehmann M, Spires-Jones TL, Prada C, Garcia-Alloza M, de Calignon A, Rozkalne A, Koenigsknecht-Talboo J, Holtzman DM, Bacskai BJ, Hyman BT.

David Spencer
Two levels of protection for the B cell genome during somatic hypermutation Nature 451, 841-845 (14 February 2008)

2/26/08 -

Mike Hoopmann
Helgason A, et al. An association between the kinship and fertility of human couples. Science. 2008 Feb 8;319(5864):813-6.

Shameek Biswas
GTP-independent rapid and slow endocytosis at a central synapse Jianhua Xu et al. Nat Neurosci 11 (1), 45-53 (Jan 2008)

2/19/08 -

Jeff Kidd
Recent acceleration of human adaptive evolution. John Hawks, Eric T. Wang, Gregory M. Cochran, Henry C. Harpending, and Robert K. Moyzis.
PNAS | December 26, 2007 | vol. 104 | no. 52 | 20753-20758
http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/abstract/104/52/20753

Alan Rubin
Maria Divina E. Deato and Robert Tjian. 2007. Switching of the core transcriptional machinery during myogenesis. Genes & Dev. 21:2137-2149.

2/12/08 -

Kyle Siebenthall
Takahashi et al., Induction of Pluripotent Stem Cells from Adult Human Fibroblasts by Defined Factors, Cell (2007), doi:10.1016/j.cell.2007.11.019

Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell Lines Derived from Human Somatic Cells
Junying Yu, Maxim A. Vodyanik, Kim Smuga-Otto, Jessica Antosiewicz-Bourget, Jennifer L Frane, Shulan Tian, Jeff Nie, Gudrun A. Jonsdottir, Victor Ruotti, Ron Stewart, Igor I. Slukvin, and James A. Thomson (20 November 2007) Science [DOI: 10.1126/science.1151526]

2/5/08 -

Joe Felsenstein
Kaoru Fukami-Kobayashi, Yoshiaki Minezaki, Yoshio Tateno, and Ken Nishikawa. 2007. A tree of life based on protein domain organizations Molecular Biology and Evolution 24: 1181-1189.

Gregory P. Fournier and J. Peter Gogarten. 2007. Signature of a primitive genetic code in ancient protein lineages. Journal of Molecular Evolution 65 (4): 425-436.

Zhaoshi Jiang
Perfusion-decellularized matrix: using nature's platform to engineer a bioartificial heart. Harald C Ott, Thomas S Matthiesen, Saik-Kia Goh, Lauren D Black, Stefan M Kren, Theoden I Netoff & Doris A Taylor. Published online: 13 January 2008; doi:10.1038/nm1684 on Nature Medicine

1/29/08 -

Tom Nicholas

A functional circuit underlying male sexual behaviour in the female mouse brain.
KImchi T, Xu J, and Dulac C. Nature 448 (2007)

Sara Di Rienzi

Smith and Williams. 2006. Circadian rhythms in gene transcription imparted by chromosome compaction in the cyanobacterium Synechococcus elongatus. PNAS. 103: 8564-8569.
Woelfle, Xu, Qin, and Johnson. 2007. Circadian rhythms of superhelical status of DNA in cyanobacteria. PNAS. 104: 18819-18824.

1/22/08 -

Oliver Serang
Clustering by Passing Messages Between Data Points
Brendan J. Frey, et al. Science 315, 972 (2007)
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/reprint/315/5814/972.pdf

Kevin Roach
M. Nowacki1, et al. RNA-mediated epigenetic programming a genome-rearrangement pathway. Nature 451, 153-158 (10 January 2008). doi:10.1038/nature06452
http://rf9xu5rz6p.search.serialssolutions.com/?id=doi:10.1038/nature06452&sid=libx:arnold

1/15/08 -

Evan Eichler
Weiss et al. Association between Microdeletion and Microduplication
at 16p11.2 and Autism. New England Journal of Medicine. January 9, 2008.

Mary-Claire King
W Sakai, EM Swisher, BY Karlan, MK Agarwal, J Higgins, C Friedman, E
Villegas, C Jacquemont, DJ Farrugia, FJ Couch, N Urban, T Taniguchi.
Secondary mutations as a mechanism of cisplatin resistance in
BRCA2-mutated cancers. Nature, in press, 2008

1/8/08 -

Brig Mecham
Lundmark F, Duvefelt K, et al
Variation in interleukin 7 receptor alpha chain (IL7R) influences risk of multiple sclerosis.
Nat Genet. 2007 Sep;39(9):1108-13. Epub 2007 Jul 29.

Gregory SG, Schmidt S, Seth P, et al
Interleukin 7 receptor alpha chain (IL7R) shows allelic and functional association with multiple sclerosis.Nat Genet. 2007 Sep;39(9):1083-91. Epub 2007 Jul 29.

Matt Sandel
Julia Zeitlinger et al. RNA polymerase stalling at developmental control genes in the Drosophila melanogaster embryo. Nature Genetics 39, 1512 - 1516 (2007).

12/4/07 -

Phil Green
U Bergthorsson, DI Andersson, JR Roth. Ohno's dilemma: Evolution of new genes under continuous selection. PNAS 104, 17004-17009 (2007).

Willie Swanson
Falling off the academic bandwagon. Women are more likely to quit at the postdoc to principal investigator transition. Elisabeth D. Martinez, Jeannine Botos, Kathleen M. Dohoney, Theresa M. Geiman, Sarah S. Kolla, Ana Olivera, Yi Qiu, Geetha Vani Rayasam, Diana A. Stavreva & Orna Cohen-Fix
EMBO reports 8, 11, 977–981 (2007).

http://www.nature.com/embor/journal/v8/n11/full/7401110.html

11/27/07 -

Dan Blick
Discovery of functional elements in 12 Drosophila genomes using evolutionary signatures. Stark et al. Nature, p. 219, 8 November 2007.

Carlos Araya
Transgenic strategies for combinatorial expression of fluorescent proteins in the nervous system. Livet J, Weissman TA, Kang H, Draft RW, Lu J, Bennis RA, Sanes JR, Lichtman JW. Nature 2007 Nov 1

11/20/07 -

Rori Rohlfs
Perry et al. Diet and the evolution of human amylase gene copy number variation. Nature Genetics. October 2007.

Diane Dickel
Kim J, Inoue K, Ishii J, Vanti WB, Voronov SV, Murchison E, Hannon G, Abeliovich A.
A MicroRNA feedback circuit in midbrain dopamine neurons. Science. 2007 Aug 31;317(5842):1220-4.

11/13/07 -

Celeste Berg
A Melanocortin 1 Receptor Allele Suggests Varying Pigmentation Among Neanderthals
Lalueza-Fox, et al. Science Express 25 October 2007
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/1147417

Ancient DNA Reveals Neandertals With Red Hair, Fair Complexions. Elizabeth Culotta (26 October 2007). Science 318 (5850), 546.
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/sci;318/5850/546

Leo Pallanck
Deleault NR, Harris BT, Rees JR, Supattapone S. (2007) Formation of native prions from minimal components in vitro. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 104:9741-6.

11/6/07 -

Lisa Beutler
Tumour invasion and metastasis initiated by microRNA-10b in breast cancer. Ma L, Teruya-Feldstein J, Weinberg RA. Nature. 2007 Oct 11;449(7163):682-8. Epub 2007 Sep 26

Graham McVicker
Batada NN, Hurst LD. Evolution of chromosome organization driven by selection for reduced gene expression noise. Nature Genetics. August 2007

10/30/07 -

Angela Poole
Transvascular delivery of small interfering RNA to the central nervous system. Kumar P, Wu H, McBride JL, Jung KE, Kim MH, Davidson BL, Lee SK, Shankar P, Manjunath N. Nature. 2007 Jul 5; 448(7149): 39-43.

Nick Coley
Agger et al. UTX and JMJD3 are histone H3K27 demethylases involved in HOX gene regulation and development. Nature Development 11 October 2007.

10/23/07 -

Jim Thomas
Global Dissemination of a Single Mutation Conferring White Pericarp in Rice Megan T. Sweeney, Michael J. Thomson, Yong Gu Cho, Yong Jin Park, Scott H. Williamson, Carlos D. Bustamante, Susan R. McCouch. PLoS Genetics, August 2007.

Max Boeck
Augmented Wnt Signaling in a Mammalian Model of Accelerated Aging. H. Liu, M. M Fergusson, R. M. Castilho, J. Liu, L. Cao, J. Chen, D. Malide, I. I. Rovira, D. Schimel, C. J. Kuo, J. S. Gutkind, P. M. Hwang, and T. Finkel Science 317 (5839), 803-806.

Increased Wnt Signaling During Aging Alters Muscle Stem Cell Fate and Increases Fibrosis. A. S. Brack, M. J. Conboy, S. Roy, M. Lee, C. J. Kuo, C. Keller, and T. A. Rando Science 317 (5839), 807-810.

10/16/07 -

Bill Noble
Checkers Is Solved. Schaeffer et al. Science 14 September 2007: Vol. 317. no. 5844, pp. 1518 - 1522

John Stamatoyannopoulos
Pagel M et al. Frequency of word-use predicts rates of lexical evolution throughout Indo-European history. Nature 449, 717-720 (2007)

Lieberman E et al. Quantifying the evolutionary dynamics of language. Nature 449:713-6 (2007)

10/9/07 -

Mary Kuhner
Tulio de Oliveira, Oliver G. Pybus, Andrew Rambaut, Marco Salemi,
et al. Molecular Epidemiology: HIV-1 and HCV sequences from Libyan
outbreak. Nature 444, 836-837.

10/2/07 -

Maynard Olson
F. Zhang et al. (2007). Multimodal fast optical interrogation of neural circuitry. Nature 446, 633-639.

5/31/07 -

Oliver Serang
Wiring optimization can relate neuronal structure and function by Beth L. Chen, David H. Hall, and Dmitri B. Chklovskii. PNAS 103 (12): 4723-4728 (2006).

Kyle Siebenthall
Conboy MJ, Karasov AO and Rando TA. (2007) High incidence of non-random template strand segregation and asymmetric fate determination in dividing stem cells and their progeny. PLoS Biology 5 (5): e102.

5/24/07 -

Kevin Roach
Covalent modification of DNA regulates memory formation.
Miller CA, Sweatt JD. Neuron 2007 Mar 15 53(6):857-69

Genomic imprinting mediates sexual experience-dependent olfactory
learning in male mice. William T. Swaney, James P. Curley, Frances A. Champagne, and Eric B. Keverne. PNAS, Apr 2007; 104: 6084 - 6089.

Alan Rubin
Betzig E, Patterson GH, Sougrat R, Lindwasser OW, Olenych S, Bonifacino JS, Davidson MW, Lippincott-Schwartz J, Hess HF. (2006). Imaging Intracellular Fluorescent Proteins at Nanometer Resolution. Science 313, 1642-1645.

5/17/07 -

Ryan Emerson
Dierick HA & Greenspan RJ. Molecular analysis of flies selected for aggressive behavior. 2006. Nature Genetics 38: 1023-31.

Chris Murphy
Anaphase initiation is regulated by antagonistic ubiquitination and deubiquitination activities . Frank Stegmeier, Michael Rape, Viji M. Draviam, Grzegorz Nalepa, Mathew E. Sowa, Xiaolu L. Ang, E. Robert McDonald III, Mamie Z. Li, Gregory J. Hannon, Peter K. Sorger, Marc W. Kirschner, J. Wade Harper & Stephen J. Elledge.
Nature 446, 876-881 (19 April 2007) | doi:10.1038/nature05694; Received 13 December 2006; Accepted 19 February 2007.

5/10/07 -

Dan Blick
Fontaneto D, Herniou EA, Boschetti C, Caprioli M, Melone G, et al.
(2007) Independently Evolving Species in Asexual Bdelloid Rotifers. PLoS
Biol 5(4): e87 doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0050087

Sara DiRienzi
Pradel N, Santini CL, Bernadac A, Fukumori Y, and Wu LF. 2006. Biogenesis of actin-like bacterial cytoskeletal filaments destined for positioning prokaryotic magnetic organelles. PNAS: 103, pp. 17845-17849.

5/3/07 -

Nick Coley
Uchikawa M, Ishida Y, Takemoto T, Kamachi Y, Kondoh H. Functional analysis of chicken Sox2 enhancers highlights an array of diverse regulatory elements that are conserved in mammals. Dev Cell. 2003 Apr;4(4):509-19.

Takemoto T, Uchikawa M, Kamachi Y, Kondoh H. Convergence of Wnt and FGF signals in the genesis of posterior neural plate through activation of the Sox2 enhancer N-1. Development. 2006 Jan;133(2):297-306. Epub 2005 Dec 14.

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Analyses of Soft Tissue from Tyrannosaurus rex Suggest the Presence
of Protein. Mary Higby Schweitzer, Zhiyong Suo, Recep Avci, John M. Asara,
Mark A. Allen, Fernando Teran Arce, and John R. Horner. Science 13 April 2007: 277-280.

4/26/07 -

Bonny Brewer
"Discrete small RNA-generating loci as master regulators of transposon activity in Drosophila". Julius Brennecke, Alexei Aravin, Alexander Stark, Monica Dus, Manolis Kellis, Ravi Sachidanandam, and Gregory Hannon. Cell 128, 1089-1103, March 23, 2007.

James Ronald
Acquisti C, Kleffe J, and Collins S (2007) Oxygen content of transmembrane proteins over macroevolutionary time scales. Nature 445, 47-52.

4/19/07 -

Joshua Akey
Tishkoff SA, Reed FA, Ranciaro A, Voight BF, Babbitt CC, Silverman JS, Powell K, Mortensen HM, Hirbo JB, Osman M, Ibrahim M, Omar SA, Lema G, Nyambo TB, Ghori J, Bumpstead S, Pritchard JK, Wray GA, Deloukas P. Convergent adaptation of human lactase persistence in Africa and Europe. Nat Genet. 2006 Dec 10

Lisa Beutler
Martianov I, Ramadass A, Serra Barros A, Chow N, Akoulitchev A.
Repression of the human dihydrofolate reductase gene by a non-coding interfering transcript. Nature. 2007 Feb 8;445(7128):666-70. Epub 2007 Jan 21.

4/12/07 -

Amanda Schivell
Organ C.L., Shedlock A.M., Meade A., Pagel M., and Edwards S.V. (2007)
"Origin of avian genome size and structure in non-avian dinosaurs"
Nature 446, 180-184

Hughes A.L. and Hughes M.K. (1995) "Small genomes for better flyers"
Nature 377, 391

Mike Hoopmann
Falk D, Hildebolt C, Smith K, Morwood MJ, Sutikna T, Jatmiko, Saptomo
EW, Imhof H, Seidler H, Prior F. Brain shape in human microcephalics and
Homo floresiensis. 2007 PNAS 104:2513-2518.

Brown P, Sutikna T, Morwood MJ, Soejono RP, Jatmiko, Saptomo EW, Due RA.
A new small-bodied hominin from the Late Pleistocene of Flores,
Indonesia. 2004 Nature 431:1055-1061.

4/5/07 -

Kristen Lewis

Wasser SK, C. Mailand, R. Booth, B. Mutayoba, E. Kisamo, B. Clark, and M. Stephens, 2007. Using DNA to track the origin of the largest ivory seizure since the 1989 trade ban. PNAS, 104(10):4228-4233.

Wasser SK, A.M. Shedlock, K. Comstock, E.A. Ostrander, B. Mutayoba, and M. Stephens, 2004. Assigning African elephant DNA to geographic region of origin: applications to the ivory trade. PNAS, 101(41):14847-52.

Marianna Ivanov
Nelson CM, Ihle KE, Fondrk MK, Page RE, Amdam GV. The Gene vitellogenin Has Multiple Coordinating Effects on Social Organization. PLoS Biol. 2007 Mar 6;5(3)

3/29/07 -

Carlos Araya
Jacobs G. H., Williams G. A., Cahill H. & Nathans J. Emergence of Novel Color Vision in
Mice Engineered to Express a Human Cone Photopigment. Science, 315 . 1723 - 1725 (2007).

Zhaoshi Jiang
Bagchi A, Papazoglu C, Wu Y et al. "CHD5 Is a Tumor Suppressor at Human 1p36".
Cell 128,459-475 February 9, 2007

3/8/07 -

David Spencer
"Reversal of Neurological Defects in a Mouse Model of Rett Syndrome"
Jacky Guy, Jian Gan, Jim Selfridge, Stuart Cobb, and Adrian Bird.
Science 23 February 2007: 1143-1147.

Steve Salipante
Comparative genome sequencing of Escherichia coli allows observation of
bacterial evolution on a laboratory timescale. Nature Genetics - 38, 1406 - 1412 (2006)

2/28/07 -

Joe Felsenstein
W. Ford Doolittle and Eric Bapteste. 2007. Pattern pluralism and the Tree of Life hypothesis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 104: 2043-2049

Troy Zerr
Tumpey TM, et al. A two-amino acid change in the hemagglutinin of the 1918 influenza virus abolishes transmission. Science. 2007 Feb 2;315(5812):655-9.

2/22/07 -

Rori Rohlfs
Jinying Zhao, Li Jin, and Momiao Xiong (2006) Test for Interaction between Two Unlinked Loci. Am J Hum Gen.

James Thompson
Zahradka K, Slade D, Bailone A, Sommer S, Averbeck D, Petranovic M, Lindner AB, Radman M. "Reassembly of shattered chromosomes in Deinococcus radiodurans." Nature. 2006 Oct 5;443(7111):569-73. Epub 2006 Sep 27.

2/15/07 -

Greg Finney
Warren L, Bryder D, Weissman IL, Quake SR. "Transcription factor profiling in individual hematopoietic progenitors by digital RT-PCR." Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 Nov 21;103(47):17807-12.

2/8/07 -

Stan Fields
De Coppi P, Bartsch G Jr, Siddiqui MM, Xu T, Santos CC, Perin L, Mostoslavsky G, Serre AC, Snyder EY, Yoo JJ, Furth ME, Soker S, Atala A. Isolation of amniotic stem cell lines with potential for therapy. Nature Biotechnol. (2007) 25:100-106.

Jeff Kidd
Wang HY, Chien HC, Osada N, Hashimoto K, Sugano S, et al. (2007) Rate of Evolution in Brain-Expressed Genes in Humans and Other Primates. PLoS Biol 5(2):
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2/1/07 -

Angela Poole
An obesity-associated gut microbiome with increased capacity for energy harvest.
Turnbaugh PJ, Ley RE, Mahowald MA, Magrini V, Mardis ER, Gordon JI Nature. 2006 Dec 21; 444(7122):1027-131

Microbial ecology: Human gut microbes associated with obesity.
Ley RE, Turnbaugh PJ, Klein S, Gordon JI Nature. 2006 Dec 21; 444(7122):1022-3

Geoff Findlay
Libuda, DE and F Winston. 2006. Amplification of histone genes by circular chromosome
formation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Nature 443: 1003-1007.

1/25/07 -

Mike MacCoss
Lorenz, H. et al. Nature Methods (3) 205-210, 2006

M.K. Raghuraman
Cox JJ et al. (2006) An SCN9A channelopathy causes congenital inability to
experience pain. Nature 444:894-8

Wetzel C et al. (2007) A stomatin-domain protein essential for touch
sensation in the mouse. Nature 445:206-9

1/18/07 -

Diane Dickel
Armakolas A, Klar AJ. Left-right dynein motor implicated in selective chromatid segregation in mouse cells. Science. 2007 Jan 5;315(5808):100-1.

Graham McVicker
Baltus, AE et al. (2006) "In germ cells of mouse embryonic ovaries, the decision to enter meiosis precedes premeiotic DNA replication" Nature Genet. 38:1430-1434

1/11/07 -

Ray Monnat
Lamb, J. et al. (2006) The Connectivity Map: using gene-expression
signatures to connect small molecules, genes and disease. Science
313:1929-1935.

Ben Smith
Paterson, D et al. "Multiple serotonergic brainstem abnormalities in Sudden Infant Death Syndrome" JAMA Nov. 1, 2006 Vol. 296, No. 17

1/4/07 -

Mary-Claire King

Mutations in the gene encoding the synaptic scaffolding protein SHANK3
are associated with autism spectrum disorders. Durand CM, Betancur C,
Boeckers TM, Bockmann J, Chaste P, Fauchereau F, Nygren G, Rastam M,
Gillberg IC, Anckarsater H, Sponheim E, Goubran-Botros H, Delorme R,
Chabane N, Mouren-Simeoni MC, de Mas P, Bieth E, Roge B, Heron D,
Burglen L, Gillberg C, Leboyer M, Bourgeron T. Nature Genetics 39:25-27,
2007.

Bob Waterston

"Flexibility and constraint in the nucleosome core landscape of Caenorhabditis elegans chromatin". SM Johnson, FJ Tan, HL McCullough, DP Riordan and AZ Fire (2006). Genome Res. 16:1505-1516

12/14/06 -

John Stamatoyannopoulos
Lomvardas S, Barnea G, Pisapia DJ, Mendelsohn M, Kirkland J, Axel R.
Interchromosomal interactions and olfactory receptor choice. Cell. 2006 Jul 28;126(2):403-13.

12/7/06 -

Phil Green
Two Dobzhansky-Muller Genes Interact to Cause Hybrid Lethality in Drosophila. Nicholas J. Brideau, Heather A. Flores, Jun Wang, Shamoni Maheshwari, Xu Wang, and Daniel A. Barbash. Science 314, 1292-1295. (24 November 2006).

Willie Swanson
Ordered surface carbons distinguish antifreeze proteins and their ice-binding regions. Andrew C Doxey, Mahmoud W Yaish, Marilyn Griffith & Brendan J McConkey. Nature Biotechnology 24: 852 - 855 (2006)

11/30/06 -

Bob Braun
Minoo Rassoulzadegan, Valerie Grandjean, Pierre Gounon, Stephane Vincent, Isabelle Gillot & Francois Cuzin. RNA-mediated non-mendelian inheritance of an epigenetic change in the mouse. Nature, Vol 441, 25 May 2006.
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Brig Mecham
Boillee S, Yamanaka K, Lobsiger CS, Copeland NG, Jenkins NA, Kassiotis G, Kollias G, Cleveland DW. Onset and progression in inherited ALS determined by motor neurons and microglia. Science. 2006 Jun 2;312(5778):1389-92. PMID: 16741123

11/16/06 -

Leo Pallanck
Choi SY, Huang P, Jenkins GM, Chan DC, Schiller J, Frohman MA. (2006)
A common lipid links Mfn-mediated mitochondrial fusion and SNARE-
regulated exocytosis. Nat Cell Biol 8:1255-1262.

Tom Nicholas
A Single Amino Acid Mutation Contributes to Adaptive Beach Mouse Color Pattern Hopi E. Hoekstra, Rachel J. Hirschmann, Richard A. Bundey, Paul A. Insel, Janet P. Crossland (2006) Science 313 101-104.

11/9/06 -

Mark Enstrom
Sudarsan N, Hammond MC, Block KF, Welz R, Barrick JE, Roth A, Breaker RR.Tandem Riboswitch Architectures Exhibit Complex Gene Control Functions. Science. 13 October, 2006

Max Boeck
PNAS | August 8, 2006 | vol. 103 | no. 32 | 12115-12120 Microbial diversity in the deep sea and the underexplored "rare biosphere" Mitchell L. Sogin, Hilary G. Morrison, Julie A. Huber, David Mark Welch, Susan M. Huse, Phillip R. Neal, Jesus M. Arrieta, and Gerhard J. Herndl

PNAS | July 25, 2006 | vol. 103 | no. 30 | 11240-11245
A Sanger/pyrosequencing hybrid approach for the generation of high-quality draft assemblies of marine microbial genomes Susanne M. D. Goldberg, Justin Johnson, Dana Busam, Tamara Feldblyum, Steve Ferriera, Robert Friedman, Aaron Halpern, Hoda Khouri, Saul A. Kravitz, Federico M. Lauro, Kelvin Li, Yu-Hui Rogers, Robert Strausberg, Granger Sutton, Luke Tallon, Torsten Thomas, Eli Venter, Marvin Frazier, and J. Craig Venter

11/2/06 -

Aaron Klammer
van Dam et al. Long-period astronomical forcing of mammal turnover. Nature 443, 687-691 (2006)

Laura Certain
A. Qvarnstrom et al. (2006) Song similarity predicts hybridization in flycatchers. J Evol Biol 19: 1202-1209.

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Bill Noble
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