BIOLOGY 463

Groups: Critical Review Assignment

 

Due Date: The term paper, one per group, is due in class on Mon, Nov. 17, 2003.

 


Biology 463:  Dates of oral presentations

As a courtesy to your fellow classmates and to your intellectual benefit, please read the presented papers before coming to class!  Participation in class discussion will be taken into consideration when evaluating your final mark.  The PDFs will be attached wherever possible.

 


Group 1Friday, November 14, 2003     9 to 9:25am

Regulation of BRCA-1 Transcription by specific single-stranded DNA binding factors.  Molecular and Cellular Biology, June 2003, 23: 3774-3787.

Justin Kopp

Alex Wood

Steven Maltby

Julie Hathaway

Lindsey Grant

 

Group 2Monday, November 17, 2003     9 to 9:25am

AML-1A and AML-1B regulation of MIP-1 alpha expression in multiple myeloma.  Blood 101: 3778-3783, 2003

Helia Baradarani

Amir Khalaj

Tom Barnjak

William Chao

Rachel Schmuland

 

Group 3Monday, November 17, 2003     9:25 to 9:50am

The time of appearance of the C. elegans let-7 microRNA is transcriptionally controlled utilizing a temporal regulatory element in its promoter.  Developmental Biology 259 (2003) p. 364-379.

Linda Liu

Julia Weng

Maricho Tachi

Eric Yeh

 

Group 4Wednesday, November 19, 2003     9 to 9:25am

Identification and Regulation of Tissue-Specific cis-Acting Elements Associatied with the Human AP-2(alpha) Gene.  Developmental Dynamics 228(2): 1994-207, 2003

Isaac Tai

Misha Bilenky

Victor Yablonsky

Andrea Ramirez

Kira Pederson

George Parrik

 

Group 5Wednesday, November 19, 2003    9:25 to 9:50am

Transcription defines the embryonic domains of cis-regulatory activity at the Drosophila bithorax complex.  Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 Dec 24;99(26):16853-8

Luana Avila

Sabiha Islam

Jasmine Ben-Lyazid

Steve Wagner

Gelareh Mazarei

 

Group 6Friday, November 21, 2003     9 to 9:25am

Thyroid hormone-regulated enhancer blocking: cooperation of CTCF and thyroid hormone receptor.  EMBO Journal, Vol. 22, No. 7 pp. 1579-1587, 2003

Kiley Cindrich

Barb Jusiak

Tammy Kuo

Avril Flanagan

David Lai

 

Group 7Friday, November 21, 2003     9:25 to 9:50am

Targeted deletion of a branchial arch-specific enhancer reveals a role of dHAND in craniofacial development.  Development. 2003 Mar;130(6):1069-78.

Corrine Wong

Monica Sleumer

David Baker

David Sakata

Anantdeep Singh Sarao

 

Group 8Monday, November 24, 2003     9 to 9:25am

Control of Regulatory T Cell Development by the Transcription Factor Foxp3.  Science. 2003 Feb 14;299(5609):1057-61.

Johannes Greaff

Gladys De Guzman

Lydia Ho

Vincent Yu

Iris Lee

 

Group 9Monday, November 24, 2003      9:25 to 9:50am

Long-range enhancer-promoter interactions in the Scr-Antp interval of the Drosophila Antennapedia complex. PNAS, August 19, 2003 vol.100, no. 17, pp. 9878-9883

Cally Curle

Anne Trinh

Eric Yeh

Kshamta Bhupendra

Ling Voon

 

Group 10Wednesday, November 26, 2003     9 to 9:25am

Genome-wide identification of in vivo Drosophila Engrailed-binding DNA fragments and related target genes.  Development. 2003 Apr;130(7):1243-54.

Bahar Ghobassy

Christine Fu

Areta Wong

Xingji Zheng

 

Group 11Wednesday, November 26, 2003     9:25 to 9:50am

The POU proteins Brn-2 and Oct-6 share important functions in Schwann cell development.  Genes Dev. 2003 Jun 1;17(11):1380-91

Jason Plemel

Casey Shannon

Arthur Yu

Robin Kendall

Charna Erlichman

 

Group 12Friday, November 28, 2003     9:00 to 9:25am

The promoter targeting sequence facilitates and restricts a distant enhancer to a single promoter in Drosophila embryo.  Development 130, 2003  pp 519-526

Sunjiv Lit

Kim Suvajdzic

Mariana Veija

Tonia Timperley

Yoohee Min