- Feb. 2
* * * SPECIAL SEMINAR AT MT. HOLYOKE * * *
LYNN COOLEY, Ph.D., Yale University
"Genetic analysis of the actin cytoskeleton
during DROSOPHILA oogenesis"
Date: Monday, February 2, 1998
Place: Mount Holyoke College, Clapp Lab 120
Time: 4:15 p.m., Refreshments served at 4 p.m., Clapp 126
- Feb. 5 Intro by Tom Zoeller
- Feb. 12 Susan Cumberledge (Overview of Secretion)
- Feb. 19 Tom Zoeller
FW Tse, A Tse, B Hille*, H Horstmann, and W Almers. 1997.
Local Ca2+ release from internal stores controls exocytosis
in pituitary gonadotrophs. Neuron 18: 121-132.
* this Hille Entrez search is corrupt with other-Hille hits. Other
Entrez links may exhibit the same problem.
- Feb. 26 Helen
J. Rick Topinka and D. S. Bredt. 1998. N-terminal palmitoylation of
PSD-95 regulates association with cell membranes and interaction
with K+ channel Kv1.4. Neuron 20: 125-134.
- March 5 Cancelled
- March 12 Rod Murphey
Readings:
(1) Distributed Reg Kelley article on synaptotagmin and
its role in regulated secretion of transmitter.
(2) Sollner T. and J.E. Rothman (1994) TINS 7:344-348
(3) Geppert M. Goda Y, Hammer RE, Li C, Rosahl TW, Stevens CF,
Sudhof TC. (1994) CELL 79:717-727 "Synaptotagmin I: a major Ca
sensor for transmitter release at a central synapse"
- March 14-22 UMass SPRING BREAK!
- March 26 Pat Wadsworth
Tanaka, E. and J. Sabry, Cell 1996 83:171-176
Lantz, V.A. and K.G. Miller. 1998. Class VI unconventional myosin is associated with a
homologue of a microtubule binding protein, cytoplasmic linker protein 170,
in neurons and at the posterior pole of drosophila embryos.
J. Cell Bio. 140:897-910
- April 2 John Nambu
Chien, C.-B. (1998). Why does the growth cone cross the road.
Neuron 20:3-6.
Strauss, E. (1998). Getting a handle on the molecules that guide axons.
Science 279:481-482.
Thomas, J. B. (1998). Axon guidance: Crossing the midline.
Current Biology R102-104.
Shirasaki, R., Katsumata, R., and Murakami, F. (1998). Change in
chemoattractant responsiveness of developing axons at an intermediate
target. Science 279:105-107.
- April 6 Entomology Seminar, Monday
Ruthann Nichols
University of Michigan,
Department of Biology
"Drosophila myosuppressin, A Cardio-inhibitory Peptide:
The Beat Goes On"
Alexander Conference Room, Fernald Hall, 3:30 PM
Host: John Stoffolano
- April 9 Anne-Marie Yvon
de la Torre , J. R., V. H Hopker, G. L. Ming, M. M. Poo, M Tessier-Lavigne,
A. Hemmati-Brivanlou and C. E. Holt. (1997). Turning of retinal growth
cones in a Netrin-1 gradient mediated by the Netrin receptor DCC.
Neuron 19:1211-1224.
- April 16 Jun Yang
Ming, G.-Li, Song HJ, Berninger B, Holt CE, Tessier-Lavigne M,
Poo MM. (1997). cAMP-dependent growth cone guidance by
Netrin-1. Neuron 19:1225-1235.
- April 23 Yue Ma
Kidd, T., Brose K, Mitchell KJ, Fetter RD, Tessier-Lavigne M,
Goodman CS, Tear G. (1998). Roundabout controls axon crossing of the
CNS midline and defines a novel subfamily of evolutionarily conserved
guidance receptors. Cell 92:205-215.
- April 30 Mary Packard
Kidd, T., Russell, C., Goodman, C. S., and Tear, G. (1998).
Dosage-sensitive and complementary functions of Roundabout and
Commissureless control axon crossing of the CNS midline.
Neuron 20:25-33.
- May 7 John Wing
Zallen, J. A., Yi, A., and Bargmann, C. I. (1998). The conserved
immunoglobulin superfamily member SAX-3/Robo directs multiple
aspects of axon guidance in C. elegans. Cell 92:217-227.
- May 14 Pat Wadsworth
Our friend the microtubule.