THURSDAYS 2-4PM (Weiss 17 East) EXCEPT Sept. 20, 2007, which will be held in Caspary 1A/1B

September 6, 2007

Short organizational meeting at 2PM

September 13, 2007

NO MEETING-ROSH HASHANAH HOLIDAY

1. September 20, 2007 NOTE: CASPARY 1A/1B

Luria, S., and Delbruck, M. (1943). Mutations of bacteria from virus sensitivity to virus resistance. Genetics 28: 491-511. [PDF]

Muller, H.J. (1927). Artificial transmutation of the gene. Science 66: 84-87. [PDF]

2. September 27, 2007 NOTE: Leslie away, Peter Model will cover

Meselson, M., and Stahl, F. (1958). The replication of DNA in E. coli. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 14: 671-682. [PDF]

Okazaki, R., Okazaki, T., Sakabe, K., Sugimoto, K., and Sugino, A. (1968). Mechanism of DNA chain growth. I. Possible discontinuity and unusual secondary structure of newly synthesized chains. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 59: 598-605. [PDF]

3. October 4, 2007 NOTE: Student presentations start this week.

Nirenberg, M.W., and Matthaei, J.H. (1961). The dependence of cell-free protein synthesis in E. coli upon naturally occurring or synthetic polyribonucleotides. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 47: 1588-1602. [PDF]

Dintzis, H.M. (1961). Assembly of the peptide chains of hemoglobin. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 47: 247-261. [PDF]

4. October 11, 2007 NOTE: Leslie and Shai away, special guest faculty discussant Howard Hang

Jacob, F., and Monod, J. (1961). Genetic Regulatory Mechanisms in the Synthesis of Proteins. J. Mol. Biol. 3: 318-356. [PDF]

Lingappa VR, Katz FN, Lodish HF, Blobel G. (1978) A signal sequence for the insertion of a transmembrane glycoprotein. Similarities to the signals of secretory proteins in primary structure and function. J Biol Chem. 253(24): 8667-8670. [PDF]

5. October 18, 2007

Stehelin, D., Varmus, H.E., Bishop, J.M, and Vogt, P.K. (1976). DNA related to transforming gene(s) of avian sarcoma viruses is present in normal avian DNA. Nature 260: 170-173. [PDF]

Eliyahu, D., Raz, A., Gruss, P., Givol, D., and Oren M. (1984). Participation of p53 cellular tumour antigen in transformation of normal embryonic cells. Nature 312: 646-649. [PDF]

6. October 25, 2007 NOTE: Shai away, Peter and Leslie will cover the two class sections

Botstein, D., White, R.L., Skolnick, M., and Davis, R.W. (1980). Construction of a genetic linkage map in man using restriction fragment length polymorphisms. Am. J. Hum. Genet. 32: 314-331. [PDF]

The Huntington's Disease Collaborative Research Group. (1993). A novel gene containing a trinucleotide repeat that is expanded and unstable on Huntington's disease chromosomes. Cell 72: 971-983. [PDF]

7. November 1, 2007

Hodgkin, A.L., Huxley, A.F., and Katz, B. (1952). Measurement of current-voltage relations in the membrane of the giant axon of Loligo. J. Physiol. (Lond) 116: 424-448. [PDF]

Hubel, D.H. and Wiesel, T.N. (1959) Receptive fields of single neurones in the cat's striate cortex. J. Physiol. 148: 574-591. [PDF]

8. November 8, 2007

Prusiner, S.B., Scott, M., Foster, D., Pan, K.M., Groth, D., Mirenda, C., Torchia, M., Yang, S.L., Serban, D., Carlson, G.A., Hoppe, P.C., Westaway, D., and DeArmond, S.J. (1990). Transgenetic studies implicate interactions between homologous PrP isoforms in Scrapie prion replication. Cell 63: 673-686. [PDF]

Wickner, R.B. (1994). [URE3] as an altered URE2 protein: evidence for a prion analog in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Science 264: 566-569. [PDF]

9. November 15, 2007

Novick, P., and Schekman R. (1979). Secretion and cell-surface growth are blocked in a temperature-sensitive mutant of Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U S A. 76: 1858-1862. [PDF]

Fries, E., and Rothman, J.E. (1980). Transport of vesicular stomatitis virus glycoprotein in a cell-free extract. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U S A. 77: 3870-3874. [PDF]

November 22, 2007

NO MEETING-THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY

10. November 29, 2007 NOTE: Leslie away, special guest faculty discussant Nina Papavasiliou

Brack, C., Hirama, M., Lenhard-Schuller, R., and Tonegawa S. (1978). A complete immunoglobulin gene is created by somatic recombination. Cell 15: 1-14. [PDF]

Lemaitre, B., Nicolas, E., Michaut, L., Reichhart, J., and Hoffman, J.A. (1996). The Dorsoventral Regulatory Gene Cassette spätzle/Toll/cactus Controls the Potent Antifungal Response in Drosophila Adults. Cell 86: 973-983. [PDF]

11. December 6, 2007 NOTE: Leslie away, special guest faculty discussant Mike Young

Quinn, W.G., Harris, W.A., and Benzer, S. (1974). Conditioned Behavior in Drosophila melanogaster. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 71: 708-712. [PDF]

Konopka, R.J., and Benzer, S. (1971). Clock Mutants of Drosophila melanogaster. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 68: 2112-2116. [PDF]

12. December 13, 2007

Lolle, S.J., Victor, J.L., Young, J.M., and Pruitt, R.E. (2005). Genome-wide non-mendelian inheritance of extra-genomic information in Arabidopsis. Nature 434: 505-509. [PDF]

Rutherford, S.L., and Lindquist, S. (1998). Hsp90 as a capacitor for morphological evolution. Nature 396: 336-342. [PDF]