UMASS Fly Club

Tentative Speaker Schedule Fall '98

Time & Place: Thursday 12:00-1:00
Morrill Science Center Room 215
Pizza lunch provided

(Fall '98 organization by John Nambu jnambu@bio.umass.edu )

Time & Place: Thursday 12:00-1:00 in Morrill 215.

Speaker Schedule:

Sept. 17 - John Nambu
     Joliot et al., (1998) Identification of a signal sequence necessary 
     for the unconventional secretion of Engrailed homeoprotein. Current 
     Biology 8:856.

* * * MCB SEMINAR * * *
101 LGRT 4PM Tu Sept. 22 Dr. Michael Rosbash of Brandeis University (Entrez Search)
presenting his mechanistic studies of biological rhythms in Drosophila

Sept. 24 - (No Flyclub)
Oct. 1 - Randy Phillis

Four short stories and one extended one from Nature Genetics

BIAcore Biosensor 2000 and other products
BIAcore WWW	Principles

Oct. 8 -
Oct. 15 - Andreas Bergmann (from Hermann Steller's laboratory)
Oct. 22 - John Wing
Oct. 29 -
Nov. 5 - Ashim Mukherjee
Nov. 12 - Mousumi Mutsuddi

"Drosophila degenerates for a good cause?"

Warwick et al., (1998) Expanded polyglutamine protein forms nuclear inclusions and causes neural degeneration. CELL 93, 939-949.
Jackson et al., (1998) Polyglutamine-expanded human huntington transgenes induce degeneration of Drosophila photoreceptor neurons. NEURON 21, 633-642

Nov. 19 - Cancelled (new schedule after Thanksgiving)
Nov. 26 - No Meeting (Thanksgiving)
Dec. 3 -

Speakers, please Email joe@bio.umass.edu with any appropriate links associated with a talk.