Alas, we will be canceling the previously scheduled March 22 RBJC meeting.
But chin up! Do your own personal journal club!
There are a number of cool papers out there ... perhaps some inspiration for a paper pick for a future RBJC lies in this list of a few things that have been on my reading list:
Endocrine regulation of male fertility by the skeleton
Cell 144:796-809
Commentary
Insulin/FOXO signaling regulates ovarian prostaglandins critical for reproduction
Dev Cell 19:858
Most mouse spermatozoa begin their acrosome reaction before contact with the zona pellucida during in vitro fertilization
PNAS in press
Commentary 1
Commentary 2 [requires JHED sign-in]
MITOPLD is a mitochondrial protein essential for nuage formation and piRNA biogenesis in the mouse germline
Dev Cell 20:364-375
piRNA-associated germline nuage formation and spermatogenesis require MitoPLD profusogenic mitochondrial-surface lipid signaling
Dev Cell 20:376-387
Commentary
See you for our next meeting, April 12!
(We are skipping a week because a bunch of us will be away for the North American Testis Workshop and/or American Society of Andrology meeting)
Thursday, March 17, 2011
Thursday, March 3, 2011
March 8, 2011 journal club
When and where: Room W2303, 12:15, Tuesday March 8
Phylis from the Matunis lab will be presenting:
The mammalian Doublesex homolog DMRT1 is a transcriptional gatekeeper that controls the mitosis versus meiosis decision in male germ cells.
Dev Cell 19:612-624
Matson et al. [David Zarkower lab website]
Phylis admits that, "this publication is not related to my field of research. But I find it interesting because it sheds more light on the process that allows mammalian male germ cells to escape meiosis during development."
Agreed! This is a great topic, as the decision of when to stop doing mitosis and start doing meiosis is a fundamental difference between male and female germ cells -- and one of the earliest events of sexual dimorphism!
(And is it just me, or is the term "gatekeeper" being used a lot more to in descriptions of biological processes? Must be a Ghostbusters renaissance.)
Phylis from the Matunis lab will be presenting:
The mammalian Doublesex homolog DMRT1 is a transcriptional gatekeeper that controls the mitosis versus meiosis decision in male germ cells.
Dev Cell 19:612-624
Matson et al. [David Zarkower lab website]
Phylis admits that, "this publication is not related to my field of research. But I find it interesting because it sheds more light on the process that allows mammalian male germ cells to escape meiosis during development."
Agreed! This is a great topic, as the decision of when to stop doing mitosis and start doing meiosis is a fundamental difference between male and female germ cells -- and one of the earliest events of sexual dimorphism!
(And is it just me, or is the term "gatekeeper" being used a lot more to in descriptions of biological processes? Must be a Ghostbusters renaissance.)
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