Seminar - February 28, 2012

Dr. Chen Chen
[links for research paper and recent review]
Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute, University of Toronto
"Reading arginine methylation in the germline: the royal family of Tudor domain proteins regulates Piwi pathway and spermatogenesis"

Tuesday, February 28, 2012
12:00 PM, Room W1020 (Becton-Dickinson Auditorium)
School of Public Health

Seminar - February 21, 2012

For a number of the next few Tuesdays, journal club time will be usurped by what should be some terrific seminars. All are welcome for:

Dr. Tony DeFalco [click here for recent publication]
Department of Cell Biology, Duke University Medical Center
"Beyond the immune: Macrophages in reproductive and stem cell biology"

Tuesday, February 21, 2012
12:15 PM, Room W1020 (Becton-Dickinson Auditorium)
School of Public Health

Feb. 7 , 2012 journal club

• When: Tuesday, Feb. 7, 12:15 PM
• Where: Room E6519, BSPH

A big thank-you to Hyo Lee (from my lab), who I roped in to starting off our journal club for this academic term. She'll be presenting:

Rhythmic actomyosin-driven contractions induced by sperm entry predict mammalian embryo viability

Nature Communications* 2011, 2:417 (Nat Commun is the Nature Publishing Group's new open access journal, another in the mushroom field of open access journals to pop up in the last year or so ... if you're losing count, so am I!)

Ajduk A, Ilozue T, Windsor S, Yu Y, Seres KB, Bomphrey RJ, Tom BD, Swann K, Thomas A, Graham CF, Zernicka-Goetz M. [lab website -- cool pics!]

The paper has some nice imaging of mouse embryos, revealing cellular events that were known to occur in other early embryos. (C. elegans embryos being especially famous for their cytoplasmic flows, and also are a model for events similar to those that Hyo is interested in in her project.) The authors of this paper also try to make the claim that characteristics of these flows will predict what embryos will produce live births -- something that the Assisted Reproductive Technology world would be quite interested in! But see what you think of the data ...