UMASS Fly Club

Tentative Speaker Schedule Fall '97:

• Sept. 3
  Noreen Reist ENTREZ
  Noreen did her doctoral work on agrin with Jack McMahan followed by 2 postdocs all at Stanford. She first worked with Steve Smith on calcium transients in Schwann cells. In her second postdoc with Tom Schwartz she studied the role of synaptotagmin on presynaptic release in Drosophila. She is presently at Colorado State.
• Sept. 10 - Scott Selleck (U. Arizona)
  AND
  Ping Jin Ph.D. defense
  (3 PM Morrill 319)
• Sept. 17 - Jim Trimarchi
   
• Sept. 22 (Monday) - Debbie Statton Ph.D. defense
  (10 AM Morrill 319)
• Oct. 1 - Ashim Mukherjee

 
• Oct. 8 - Dr. Sean Sweeney (a collaborator with Cahir O'Kane   A,   B,   C)
  tetanus toxin ... and screens for synaptic transmission mutants
 
• Oct. 15 -John Wing (moved to Dec.10)
   
• Oct. 22 - Sian Gramates
  Pan D and Rubin GM. (1997)   Cell (1997) Jul 25;90(2):271-280.
  Kuzbanian controls proteolytic processing of Notch and mediates lateral inhibition during Drosophila and vertebrate neurogenesis. Abstract
 
• *Oct 29 - No meeting - Neurosciences Meeting

 
• Nov. 5 - Mousumi Mutsuddi

 
• Nov. 12 - Joe Jack (U. Conneticut Health Center) Entrez
  "The requirement of the genes raw and ribbon for proper cell and tissue shape."
  Genetics 147(1), 243-253 (1997)

 
• Nov. 19 -

 
• *Nov. 26 - No meeting - Thanksgiving

 
• Dec. 3 - Yue Ma

"RNA binding and translational suppression by bicoid"
R. Rivera-Pomar et al,. Nature 379 746-749.(1996).  
• Dec. 10 - Dr. Michael Wyszynski, Harvard University
  "NMDA receptor anchoring to actin cytoskeleton
  mediated by alpha-actinin-2 in dendritic spines"
  Entrez search