Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Jan. 25, 2011 journal club

Matt Beattie of the Zirkin lab helps us kick off our 2011 meetings (thanks, Matt!).
We'll meet at 12:15, Tuesday, Jan. 25, in Room E6519.
Matt will be presenting:

ROS inhibit the expression of testicular steroidogenic enzyme genes via the suppression of Nur77 transactivation.
Lee et al.
Free Radical Biology and Medicine, 2009, 47: 1591-1600

As Matt comments about this paper:
"I picked this paper because it is, well it's right in my field of study. This paper wants to establish a basis (via signalling and transcriptional regulation) for steroidogenic aging. While the "cause" of aging is still hotly debated, many groups are trying to establish an aging profile in both constantly dividing and terminally differentiated (or very low turnover) cells. The Leydig cell provides a great example of an aging terminally differentiated cell and allows us to study various aspects of the aging cell while measuring it's capacity to make steroids as a marker for their function."

Wednesday, January 12, 2011

RBJC schedule for Spring 2011

Our meetings for January-May are below --
[roughly] every other Tuesday
(with a few Tuesdays skipped, like for the BMB departmental retreat)
12:15-1:30 PM

  • Presenters - The room reservation starts at 12:00, so you can get in a little early for set-up.
  • Everyone - Please note that we are in two different rooms (alas and once again, we couldn't get E6519 for all our meetings).
1/25/11 - Matt Beattie (Zirkin lab) - Room E6519
2/8/11 - Mandy Wilkinson (Evans lab) - Room W2303
2/22/11 - Kate Laws (Drummond-Barbosa lab) - Room E6519
3/8/11 - Phylis Hetie (Matunis lab) -
Room W2303
3/22/11 - Min-Young Kim (Drummond-Barbosa lab) - Room E6519
4/12/11 - Shiying Jin (Zirkin lab)- Room W2303
4/26/11 - Andrew Wolfe (Yay! A faculty member stepping up to present!) - Room E6519
5/17/11 - Dolly Singh (Wright lab) - Room E6519