Wednesday, May 18, 2011

MRD/UPenn Conference on Reproduction and Regeneration, June 13-14, 2011

There is a nearby (and FREE!) conference coming up that I thought many of you would be interested in:
The 2011 Annual MRD conference on Reproduction and Regeneration
June 13-14, in Philadelphia, PA,
sponsored by the journal Molecular Reproduction and Development (and publisher Wiley-Blackwell).

Gary Wessel, editor-in-chief of MRD, describes the conference:
"This year's version, v3.0, will be at UPenn in collaboration with the Center for Research in Reproduction and Women's Health, and the Institute for Regenerative Medicine. This year's edition is value-added by partnering with the groups at UPenn. Registration is Free - Poster session with awards - lots of food - ~25 speakers - workshop on bioinformatics. Should be lots of fun."

The conference and workshop will be held on the University of Pennsylvania campus in the Auditorium of the new Translational Research Center (TRC) building, adjacent to the the new Perelman Center for Advanced Medicine.

If you have questions, I'm sure that Gary would be happy to help out (his email address: rhet@brown.edu).

Wednesday, May 11, 2011

Thesis defense of Erin Stanley

Erin Stanley of the Zirkin lab will be presenting her dissertation defense seminar:

"Leydig cell stem/progenitor cells in neonatal, adult and aged testes"

Tuesday, May 31, 2011
10 AM
Room 1020 (Becton-Dickinson Hall), School of Public Health

Congratulations, Erin, and good luck!

May 17, 2011 journal club

When and where: Tuesday, May 17, 12:15 PM, Room E6519

Dolly of the Wright lab will be presenting:

Sin3a
Is Required by Sertoli Cells to Establish a Niche for Undifferentiated Spermatogonia, Germ Cell Tumors, and Spermatid Elongation

Stem Cells (2010), 28:1424-1434
Payne, Gallagher, Foreman, Dannenberg, Depinho, and Braun

Dolly says, "I choose this paper because of its focus on Sertoli cells, an area that I am not too familiar with but most interested in further exploring.* The authors were interested in studying how the regulation of Sertoli cell chromatin is affected during fetal and juvenile periods of testis development and how it influences the establishment of the germ stem cell niche -- especially since Sertoli cells are sensitive to epigenetic alternation and play a role in the maintenance and formation of undifferentiated spermatogonia."

* Blog keeper's comment: Hey, good for you, Dolly!