MONDAYS:
10:00-12:00 Welkin Office Hours
12:00-2:00 Lab Meeting/Journal Club
2:00-2:30 Laura & Jen
TUESDAYS:
9:00-10:15 Welkin Teaching
10:30-11:00 Anindita
WEDNESDAYS:
9:30-10:00 Kevin
10:00-10:30 Annabel
10:30-11:00 Alison
11:00-11:30 Jamie
11:30-12:00 Ben
THURSDAYS:
9:00-10:15 Welkin Teaching
FRIDAYS:
9:30-10:00 Sergio
10:00-10:30 Kate
10:30-11:00 Ted
11:00-11:30 Andrea
1/14/2013
No lab meeting on Jan 21…campus holiday
Lab Meeting will be moving to Room 552 at Noon!!!
Lab meeting on Jan 28 will be Ben with no Journal Club
Picture and Bios due for Website by Jan 28
Lab Jobs Changing on Jan 28
IMPORTANT: MANDATORY LAB SAFETY MEETING MONDAY FEB 4 at noon Room 552
NEWS:
11/26/2012
“Two viruses and an elephant walk into a bar…”get the rest of the story by reading Welkin’s latest post on Small Things Considered
JOURNAL CLUB:
11/12/2012
Convergent Evolution of Argonaute-2 Slicer Antagonism
in Two Distinct Insect RNA Viruses
Andrea presented a very interesting paper from PLoS Pathogens by van Mierlo et al, on RNAi inhibition of RNA viruses in insects, and specifically about proteins in two viruses that have apparently evolved to counteract RNAi. The paper combines genomics, molecular biology, and even some Drosophila genetics to make its point.
The paper citation is PLoS Pathog 8(8): e1002872. doi:10.1371/journal.ppat.1002872 and can be found here.
NEWS: Johnson Lab Page To Go Live Any Day Now
JOURNAL CLUB:
10/22/2012
Poxviruses deploy genomic accordions to adapt rapidly against host antiviral defenses.
Cell. 2012 Aug 17;150(4):831-41. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2012.05.049.
Jamie presented a recent paper by our friend and colleague Nels Elde, based on work he did as a postdoc in Harmit Malik’s lab. Nels now has his own lab at the University of Utah. In this study, Nels and Harmit use deep-sequencing to take a close look at how poxvirus genomes evolve in response to selective pressure, revealing a unique mechanism they refer to as “gene accordions”. John Roth also published a nice commentary on the work.