THE AMACHER LAB
Amacher Lab Journal Club, 2007 - 2008
 1 PM, Tuesday, Room 547

December 2007

12/4  Emilie Delaune
Symchrony dynamics during initiation, failure, and rescue of the segmentation clock, Riedel-Kruse et al. Science 317, 1911 (2007)

12/11 Katie Brown
Initiation and propagation of Hes7 occilation are cooperatively regulated by Fgf and Notch signaling in the somite segmentation clock,  Niwa et al. Dev Cell, 2007

FGF signaling acts upstream of the NOTCH and WNT  signaling pathways to control segmentation clock oscillations in mouse somitogenesis. Wahl et al. Development, 2007

January 2008

1/8  Jasmine McCammon
Completing the set of h/E(spl) cyclic genes in zebrafish: her12 and her15 reveal novel modes of epression and contribute to the segmentation clock. Shankaran et al. Dev Biol, 2007

1/22 Aaron Garnett
EZ Cheez: A potent Notch-o inhibitor
Kraft, et al. Food Science (2008)
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Deriving structure from evolution: metazoan segmentation. Francois P et al. Mol Syst Biol. 2007;3:154
Febuary 2008

2/19 Adrienne Maxwell
Maternal-zygotic medaka mutants for fgfr1 reveal its essential role in the migration of the axial mesoderm but not the lateral mesoderm. Shimada et al., Development, 2008


March 2008

3/4 Sharon Amacher
A β-catenin gradient links the clock and wavefront systems in mouse embryo segmentation.  Aulehla et al. Nat Cell Biol 10(2) Feb 2008

3/25 Emilie Delaune
Oscillatory lunatic fringe activity is crucial for segmentation of the anterior but not posterior skeleton. Shifley et al. Development (2008) 135 (5) pp. 899-908
April 2008

4/8 Katie Brown
REREa/Atrophin-2 interacts with Histone Deacetylase and Fgf8 Signaling to Regulate  multiple processes of zebrafish development. Plaster et al. Dev Dyn 236:1891–1904, 2007

4/29 Jasmine McCammon
Notch signalling synchronizes the zebrafish segmentation clock but is not needed to create somite boundaries. Ozbudak & Lewis. PLoS Genet. 2008 Feb;4(2)
May 2008

5/27 Adrienne Maxwell
Activator-to-repressor conversion of T-box transcription factors by the Ripply family of Groucho/TLE-associated mediators. Kawamura et al. MCB May 2008, p. 3236-3244, Vol. 28, No. 10.
June 2008

6/10 Emilie Delaune
FGF induces oscillations of Hes1 expression and ras/ERK activation, Nakayama et al. Curr Biol. 2008

6/24 cancelled

July 2008

7/8 cancelled

7/22 cancelled
August 2008

8/5 Sharon Amacher
Mesp2 and Tbx6 cooperatively create periodic patterns coupled with the clock machinery during mouse somitogenesis, Oginuma et al. Dev.135, 2555-2562 (2008)

8/19 Jasmine McCammon
Control of segment number in vertebrate embryos. Gomez et al. Nature 2008; 454(7202):335-9
September 2008

9/2 Katie Brown
Cell cycle progression is required for zebrafish somite morphogenesis but not segmentation clock function.
Zhang et al. Development 2008
135(12):2065-70

9/16 Adrienne Maxwell
Wnt3a/beta-catenin signaling controls posterior body
development by coordinating mesoderm formation and
segmentation. Dunty et al. Development 2008 135(1):85-94


9/30 Emilie Delaune
Noncyclic Notch activity in the presomitic mesoderm demonstrates uncoupling of somite compartmentalization and boundary formation. Feller et al. Genes Dev 2008 22 (16) 2166-71
October 2008

10/14 Sharon Amacher

10/28 Jasmine McCammon
November 2008

11/11 Adrienne Maxwell

11/25 Katie Brown