Monthly Archives: October 2007

Related Readings – Monday Lecture – Cori Bargmann, Ph.D.

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Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Synapse

Monday, October 29, 2007
Welch Hall (2nd Floor)

3:45 p.m. Refreshments 4:00 p.m. Lecture

Recommended Review Article

Bargmann, C. I. (2006). Comparative chemosensation from receptors to ecology. Nature 444:295-301.

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Chang, A. J., Chronis, N., Karow, D. S., Marletta, M. A. and Bargmann, C. I. (2006). A distributed chemosensory circuit for oxygen preference in C-elegans. PLoS Biology 4:1588-1602.
Chronis, N., Zimmer, M. and Bargmann, C. I. (2007). Microfluidics for in vivo imaging of neuronal and behavioral activity in Caenorhabditis elegans. Nature Methods 4:727-731.
Chuang, C. F., VanHoven, M. K., Fetter, R. D., Verselis, V. K. and Bargmann, C. I. (2007). An innexin-dependent cell network establishes left-right neuronal asymmetry in C. elegans. Cell 129:787-799.
Patel, M. R., Lehrman, E. K., Poon, V. Y., Crump, J. G., Zhen, M., Bargmann, C. I. and Shen, K. (2006). Hierarchical assembly of presynaptic components in defined C. elegans synapses. Nature Neuroscience 9:1488-1498.
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Related Readings – Friday Lecture – Timothy A. Ryan, Ph.D.

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The Synaptic Vesicle Cycle: Deciphering the Molecules and Membrane Traffic that Support Neurotransmission

Friday, October 26, 2007

Caspary Auditorium 3:45 p.m. – 5:15 p.m. Tea at 3:15 p.m. in the Abby Lounge

Recommended Review Article

Sudhof, T. C. (2004). The synaptic vesicle cycle. Annual Review of Neuroscience 27:509-547.

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Ferguson, S. M., Brasnjo, G., Hayashi, M., Wolfel, M., Collesi, C., Giovedi, S., Raimondi, A., Gong, L. W., Ariel, P., Paradise, S., O’Toole, E., Flavell, R., Cremona, O., Miesenbock, G., Ryan, T. A. and De Camilli, P. (2007). A selective activity-dependent requirement for dynamin 1 in synaptic vesicle endocytosis. Science 316:570-574.
Fernandez-Alfonso, T., Kwan, R. and Ryan, T. A. (2006). Synaptic vesicles interchange their membrane proteins with a large surface reservoir during recycling. Neuron 51:179-186.
Ryan, T. A. (2006). A pre-synaptic to-do list for coupling exocytosis to endocytosis. Current Opinion in Cell Biology 18:416-421.
Schweizer, F. E. and Ryan, T. A. (2006). The synaptic vesicle: cycle of exocytosis and endocytosis. Current Opinion in Neurobiology 16:298-304.
Willig, K. I., Rizzoli, S. O., Westphal, V., Jahn, R. and Hell, S. W. (2006). STED microscopy reveals that synaptotagmin remains clustered after synaptic vesicle exocytosis. Nature 440:935-939.
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Related Readings – Monday Lecture – Paul Greengard, Ph.D.

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Signal Transduction Pathways Used and Abused by CNS Drugs

Monday, October 22, 2007
Welch Hall (2nd Floor)

3:45 p.m. Refreshments 4:00 p.m. Lecture

Recommended Review Article

Svenningsson, P., Nishi, A., Fisone, G., Girault, J. A., Nairn, A. C. and Greengard, P. (2004). DARPP-32: An integrator of neurotransmission. Annual Review of Pharmacology and Toxicology 44:269-296.

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Borgkvist, A., Usiello, A., Greengard, P. and Fisone, G. (2007). Activation of the cAMP/PKA/DARPP-32 signaling pathway is required for morphine psychomotor stimulation but not for morphine reward. Neuropsychopharmacology 32:1995-2003.
Nairn, A. C., Svenningsson, P., Nishi, A., Fisone, G., Girault, J. A. and Greengard, P. (2004). The role of DARPP-32 in the actions of drugs of abuse. Neuropharmacology 47:14-23.
Nishi, A., Watanabe, Y., Higashi, H., Tanaka, M., Nairn, A. C. and Greengard, P. (2005). Glutamate regulation of DARPP-32 phosphorylation in neostriatal neurons involves activation of multiple signaling cascades. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 102:1199-1204.
Santini, E., Valjent, E., Usiello, A., Carta, M., Borgkvist, A., Girault, J. A., Herve, D., Greengard, P. and Fisone, G. (2007). Critical involvement of cAMP/DARPP-32 and extracellular signal-regulated protein kinase signaling in L-DOPA-induced dyskinesia. Journal of Neuroscience 27:6995-7005.
Svenningsson, P. and Greengard, P. (2006). A master regulator in the brain. The Scientist 20:40-47.
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Related Readings – Friday Lecture – Michael Snyder, Ph.D.

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Analyzing Differences Between Individuals and Between Species

Friday, October 19, 2007

Caspary Auditorium 3:45 p.m. – 5:15 p.m. Tea at 3:15 p.m. in the Abby Lounge

Recommended Review Article

Zhu, X. W., Gerstein, M. and Snyder, M. (2007).Getting connected: analysis and principles of biological networks. Genes & Development 21:1010-1024.

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Borneman, A. R., Gianoulis, T. A., Zhang, Z. D. D., Yu, H. Y., Rozowsky, J., Seringhaus, M. R., Wang, L. Y., Gerstein, M. and Snyder, M. (2007).Divergence of transcription factor binding sites across related yeast species. Science 317:815-819.

Korbel, J. O., Urban, A. E., Grubert, F., Du, J., Royce, T. E., Starr, P., Zhong, G. N., Emanuel, B. S., Weissman, S. M., Snyder, M. and Gerstein, M. B. (2007).Systematic prediction and validation of breakpoints associated with copy-number variants in the human genome. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 104:10110-10115.

Kung, L. A. and Snyder, M. (2006).Proteome chips for whole-organism assays. Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology 7:617-622.

Ren, B., Robert, F., Wyrick, J. J., Aparicio, O., Jennings, E. G., Simon, I., Zeitlinger, J., Schreiber, J., Hannett, N., Kanin, E., Volkert, T. L., Wilson, C. J., Bell, S. P. and Young, R. A. (2000).Genome-wide location and function of DNA binding proteins. Science 290:2306.

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Related Readings – Friday Lecture – Blaise Aguera y Arcas

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Visual Swarms

Friday, October 12, 2007

Caspary Auditorium 3:45 p.m. – 5:15 p.m. Tea at 3:15 p.m. in the Abby Lounge

Related Articles and Videos/Websites

TED Talks. (Filmed Mar 2007; Posted May 2007). Blaise Aguera y Arcas: Jaw-dropping Photosynth demo [Video]. TED2007; 2007 Mar 7-10; Monterey, CA.
Microsoft Live Labs. (2006). Photosynth [Website].
Snavely, N., Seitz, S.M. and Szeliski, R. (2006). Photo tourism: Exploring photo collections in 3D. ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH Proceedings) 25:835-846.
University of Washington. (2006). Photo tourism: Exploring photo collections in 3D [Website].
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Related Readings – Friday Lecture – Allan C. Spradling, Ph.D.

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Modeling Aspects of Mammalian Reproductive Biology Using the Drosophila Ovary

Friday, October 5, 2007

Caspary Auditorium 3:45 p.m. – 5:15 p.m. Tea at 3:15 p.m. in the Abby Lounge

Recommended Review Article

Qazi, M. C. B., Heifetz, Y. and Wolfner, M. F. (2003). The developments between gametogenesis and fertilization: ovulation and female sperm storage in Drosophila melanogaster. Developmental Biology 256:195-211.

Related Articles

Decotto, E. and Spradling, A. C. (2005). The Drosophila ovarian and testis stem cell niches: Similar somatic stem cells and signals. Developmental Cell 9:501-510.
Fuller, M. T. and Spradling, A. C. (2007). Male and female Drosophila germline stem cells: Two versions of immortality. Science 316:402-404.
Gilboa, L., and Lehmann, R. (2007). Changing places: A novel type of niche and stem cell coordination in the Drosophila ovary. Cell Stem Cell 1:239-240.
Nystul, T., and Spradling, A. (2007) An epithelial niche in the Drosophila ovary undergoes long-range stem cell replacement. Cell Stem Cell 1:277-285.
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