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Molecular, Cellular, Developmental Biology and Genetics Graduate Student Seminar Series Spring 2008 12:00 - 1:00pm Mondays 2-101 Nils Hasselmo - Minneapolis Campus 145 Peters Hall - St. Paul Campus
Date	Student	Title
January 7	Phil Jensen Advisor: M. O'Connor	Interactions between the BMP and Activin pathways in Drosophila
January 14	Katie Kelly Advisor: D. Kirkpatrick	The Role of Zinc in Minisatellite Stability During Stationary Phase
January 28	Yuan-Lin Kang Advisor: L. Ranum	Reversible Multisystemic Mouse Models of DM1 and DM2.
February 4	Steve Offer Advisors: R. Harris	The role of DNA repair factors in antibody diversification
February 11	Damaris Lorenzo Advisor: L. Ranum	Spinocerebellar Ataxia Type 5: Lessons from Humans Applied to Flies
February 18	Laura Ramsey Advisor: M. Farrar	B cell receptor signaling and receptor editing
February 25	Clint Matson Advisor: D. Zarkower	The conserved sexual regulator /Dmrt1/ is required to maintain the mammalian spermatogonial stem cell niche
March 3	Laura Breshears Advisor: M. Titus	An Unconventional Myosin Regulates Cell Motility in Dictyostelium discoideum
March 10	Erika Sorensen Advisor: S. Conner	AAK1 Regulates Numb Function as a Endocytic Adaptor
March 17	Yu-Yun Chang Advisor: T. Neufeld	The regulation and function of Drosophila Atg1 in autophagy
March 24	Eric Rahrmann Advisor: D. Largaespada Stephanie Ye Advisor: M. O'Connor	Utilizing the Sleeping Beauty Transposon System for Prostate  Cancer Gene Discovery The role of TGF-beta signaling in ecdysone biosynthesis
March 31	Kristy Vanderwaal Advisor: M. O'Connor Todd Knutson Advisor: M. O'Connor	A role for Tubby proteins in the flagellar behavior of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii.  Regulation of progesterone receptor transcriptional activity and promoter selectivity by sumoylation/desumoylation
April 7	Tony Krentz	Dmrt1 is required to restrict germ cell pluripotency
April 14	Kelly Bouchonville Advisor: J. Berman Majda Haznadar Advisor: B. Van Ness	Construction of centromere plasmids for use in Candida albicans Single Nucleotide Polymorphism Associations in Myeloma and Lung Cancer
April 21	Pretti Joshi Advisor: T. Neufeld Abhi Sohni Advisor: C. Verfaillie	Mutational Analysis of a Drosophila Histone Methyltransferase Identification of Genes involved in Smooth Muscle development
April 28	Jen Carlson Advisor: J. McCarthy Priah Nadarajan Advisor: D. Greenstein	Hyaluronan and tumor cell interactions in prostate cancer  progression  Genetic studies on the cordination between oocyte growth and meiotic maturation in C.elegans
May 5	Dan Wolf Advisor: S. McIvor Katie Murphy Advisor: S. Selleck	Gene therapy strategies for the treatment of  Mucopolysaccharidosis Type I in a murine disease model  Determining the Role of Heparan Sulfate Proteoglycans in Axon Guidance
May 12	Katie Furniss Advisor: D. Clarke	Understanding the Mechanism of the Topoisomerase II Checkpoint
May 19	Shan Zhou Advisor: L. Chen Stephanie Westcot Advisor: S. Ekker	Ankyrin and Syntrophin regulate L1CAM function in C.elegans Gene-breaking Mutagenesis Identifies New Genetic Loci and A Conditional Allele of a Classical Zebrafish Mutation
June 2	Megan Multhaup Advisor: S. McIvor Yi-Wei Yang Advisor: M. Koob	Cross-species mitochondrial fusion as a tool for engineering the mitochondrial genome
June 9	Michell Hamline Advisor: V. Bardwell Casey Dorr Advisor: Lou Mansky	Plant-derived compounds: anti-HIV activities and mechanism of action
June 16	Matt Berkseth Advisor: D. Zarkower Chi Fong Advisor: D. Koepp Wei-Shan Hsu Advisor: D. Clarke	The regulation of coheison of sister chromatids in S phase
June 23	Rachel Herder Advisor: M. O'Connor Kate McCulloch Advisor: A. Rougvie David Nelson Advisor: P. Lefebvre	Regulation of ecdysone biosynthesis: controlling developmental   timing in Drosophila Hydrogen Production in Chlaydomonas reinhardtii
June 30	Brian Gibbens Advisor: L. Ranum Any Lane Advisor: D. Clarke Andrea LeClere Advisor: D. Kirkpatrick	The Identification and Characterization of Factors Involved in Minisatellite Stability
July 7	Meghan Doyal Advisor: Y. Marahrens Becca Pulver Advisor: Cheryl Gale Kelaine Zimmerman Advisor: R. Wright