2002 Summer Colloquium

All talks will be held on Wednesdays at 3:30 PM in the Genetics-Biotech Auditorium (1111 Genetics-Biotechnology Center, 425 Henry Mall).

Date	Speaker	Lab	Title (click for abstracts)
May 22	Radhika Puttagunta	Prolla	Generation of Mitchondrial Hsp70 Transgenic Mice
May 29	No colloquium
June 5	Kirsten Bomblies	Doebley	Conserved and novel roles of maize FLORICAULA/LEAFY homologs in reproductive development
June 12	Hongyu Shang	Anderson	Cloning and Characterization of smg-6, a Gene Involved in mRNA Surveillance in C.elegans
June 12	Koen Verbrugghe	White	SPD-1, a putative microtubule associated protein required for the formation of the spindle midzone and involved in the completion of cytokinesis
June 19	Junyu Lin	Kung	Export of the yeast TRP channel YVC1 from the ER requires specific function of SEC12
June 26	Kati Geszvain	Landick	The Role of RNA Polymerase's Flap-Tip Hydrophobic Patch in sigma70 Region 4 Function
June 26	Kai (Billy) Hung	Masson	Arabidopsis Mutant with Defective Root Growth Response to Surface-derived Stimuli
July 3	Yisheng Kang	Blattner	High-throughput Systematic Mutagenesis in E.coli
July 3	Haining Zhang	White	The Role of Dynactin Complex in Spindle Alignment in C. elegans Early Embryo
July 10	Christopher Lockwood	Hardin	Role of dlg-1 in formation and polarization of epithelial junctions
July 17	Timothy Walston	Hardin	Dishevelled Worms
July 17	Tiewen Liu	Barr	Signal transduction in C. elegans male mating behaviors
July 24	Qiaoning Guan	Culbertson	Identifying the nuclear export mechanism for Upf3p, a factor required for the NMD pathway in yeast
July 24	Mark Sheffield	Hardin	Disruption of epithelial morphogenesis by perturbation of molecules affecting actin dynamics
July 31	Maria Vidal	White	Cloning spd-3: A Gene Required for Spindle Alignment
July 31	Kanok Boonsirichai	Masson	Analyses of the involvement of ARG1, a DnaJ-like protein, in the gravitropic process of Arabidopsis thaliana
Aug 7	Heath Murray	Gourse	Identification of Times During a Bacterial Growth Cycle When Changing NTP and ppGpp Concentrations Control rRNA Expression
Aug 7	Jamie Lyman	Pelegri	Regulation of axis induction in zebrafish embryos by canonical and non-canonical Wnt signaling pathways
Aug 14	Christen Yuen	Masson	WVD2 and WDL1 Modulate Helical Organ Growth and Anisotropic Cell Expansion in Arabidopsis thaliana
Aug 14	Michael Edwards	Prolla	Age-Related Impairment of the Transcriptional Response to Stress in the Heart
Aug 21	Melissa Bose	Fox	The minimal ORC Interaction Domain of the yeast heterochromatin protein Sir1p
Aug 21	Andrew Grimson	Anderson
Aug 28	David Nelson	Sussman	Searching for G-protein coupled receptors in Arabidopsis thaliana
Aug 28	Minzhu Liu	Hardin	Global gene expression profiling of Escherichia coli K12: transition into stationary phase