Our next reproductive biology journal club will be Tuesday, Oct. 25, at 12:15 PM in Room E6519.
Matt Beattie of the Zirkin lab will present -- and he's picked a paper I'm quite keen on:
Paternally-induced transgenerational environmental reprogramming of metabolic gene expression in mammals
Carone et al.
Cell 143: 1084-1096.
Oliver Rando information - department website, EUREKA announcement
Everyone knows how important maternal care and diet are, in the pre-natal period and even pre-conception (example 1; example 2) ... but what about Dad? This journal club paper is one of two papers that came out in the last year that identify some effects of paternal diet on offspring. (FYI, the other is this, by Margaret Morris' group at the University of South Wales.) These papers don't answer all the questions, and in fact, they raise more questions than they answer (IMHO) -- but oh, the interesting questions they raise!
And a bit of shameless promotion -- both Ollie Rando and Margaret Morris are on the program of the upcoming 2012 annual meeting of the American Society of Andrology. (Yall come! abstract deadline is November 1, 2011.)
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