Blumenthal lab meetings

Blumenthal Lab Meetings (Spring 2008)--

Group Meeting

Wednesdays 3:30-5:00, B121 unless otherwise noted

Every other meeting is a joint meeting with Lykke-Andersen Lab

1/16: Elizabeth + Jessica

1/23: Joint: Tom

2/6: Jared + Tassa

2/20: Joint: Jason (moved to room AB160)

3/5: Peg

3/19: Joint: Mary

4/2: Alfonso

4/16: Joint: Jessica

4/30: Tassa

5/14: Joint: Erika

5/28: Doug

Blumenthal Journal club

Every other Tuesday 12-1

date presented	Person presenting		PDF of paper
1/15/2008	Jessica	Protein characterization of Saccharomyces cerevisiae RNA polymerase II after in vivo cross-linking.	Jessica-1
2/5/2008	Mary	Role of poly (A) tail as an identity element for mRNA nuclear export	Mary-2
2/26/2008	Alfonso	Transcribing RNA Polymerase II Is Phosphorylated at CTD Residue Serine-7	Jessica-2
3/4/2008	Erika	Human Pcf11 enhances degradation of RNA polymerase II-associated nascent RNA and transcriptional termination	Mary-4
3/18/2008	Doug	Modulating alternative splicing by cotranscriptional cleavage of nascent intronic RNA	Mary-1
4/1/2008	Tassa	Two distinct arginine methyltransferases are required for biogenesis of Sm-class ribonucleoproteins	Peg-3
4/15/2008	Jason	Sumoylation Modulates the Assembly and Activity of the Pre-mRNA 3' Processing Complex	Jason-3
4/29/2008	Peg	Absence of gemin5 from SMN complexes in nuclear Cajal bodies	Peg-1
5/13/2008	Tom	Furger Review	TBE

	Extra	The yeast U5 snRNP coisolated with the U1 snRNP has an unexpected protein composition and includes the splicing factor Aar2p	Peg-2
	Extra	A comprehensive computational characterization of conserved mammalian intronic sequences reveals conserved motifs associated with constitutive and alternative splicing	Peg-4
	Extra	An Allosteric Path to Transcription Termination	Alfonso-1
	Extra	Intranuclear Distribution and Local Dynamics of RNA Polymerase II during Transcription Activation	Jason-2
	Extra	Structure of the Yeast SR Protein Npl3 and Interaction with mRNA 3′-End Processing Signals	Jason-1
	Extra	Mapping the C. elegans noncoding transcriptome with a whole-genome tiling microarray	Mary-3

RNA club

RNA Club Schedule, Spring 2008

	Presenter 1	Presenter 2
12-Feb	Han Lab
26-Feb	Kieft Lab	Thermofisher (Dharmacon)
11-Mar	Bentley Lab	Blumenthal Lab
1-Apr	Cech Lab	Goodrich Lab
15-Apr	Batey Lab	Pardi Lab
22-Apr	Davis Lab	Taatjes Lab

C. elegans ultra-group

January 29 :Han & Fay

February 12 : Blumenthal & Evans (Tassa)

February 26 : Davis & Xue

March 11: Fay & Link

April 1: Han & Xue

April 22: Evans & Blumenthal (Mary)