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Journal Club, Fall 2004

Dr. June Kwak jkwak@umd.edu

Mondays, 12-1pm

HJ Patterson 2242

Dates	Speaker	Topic	PDF
Sept. 13th	Charlotte Song	- The MKK2 pathway mediates cold and salt stress signaling in Arabidopsis. - Stomatal development and pattern controlled by a MAPKK kinase.	- Teige et al. (2004), Mol. Cell, 15: 141-152. - Bergmann et al. (2004), Science, 304: 1494- 1497.
Sept. 24th	ATRIUM
Sept. 27th	Kelly Poliquin	Functional analysis of the final steps of the 1-deoxy-d-xylulose 5-phosphate (DXP) pathway to isoprenoids in plants using virus-induced gene silencing.	Page et al. (2004), Plant Physiol 134:1401-1413
Oct. 4th	Xiyan Li	- A cysteine-rich extracellular protein, LAT52, interacts with the extracellular domain of the pollen receptor kinase LePRK2. - The receptor kinases LePRK1 and LePRK2 associate in pollen and when expressed in yeast, but dissociate in the presence of style extract.	- Tang et al., Plant Cell (2002),14:2277-2287 - Wengier et al., (2003), PNAS,100:6
Oct. 11th	Chris McClellan	Convergence of signaling pathways in the control of differential cell growth in Arabidopsis.	Li et al., (2004), Developmental Cell 7: 193-204
Oct. 18th	Jo Stockton	- The Arabidopsis double-stranded RNA-binding protein HYL1 plays a role in microRNA-mediated gene regulation. - The nuclear dsRNA binding protein HYL1 is required for microRNA accumulation and plant development, but not posttranscriptional transgene silencing.	- Han et al., (2004) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 101, 1093-1098; - Vazquez et al., (2004) Current Biology 13, 346-451
Oct. 29th	ATRIUM
Nov. 1st	Vijayakala Vydeeswaren
Nov. 8th	V. V. Sridhar		He, Yikan, et al., Science (9/24/04):1968-1971
Nov. 19th	ATRIUM
Nov. 22nd	No Journal Club
Nov. 29th	Maximo Rivarola	- Accumulation of Phosphorylated Repressor for Gibberellin Signaling in an F-box Mutant - The Arabidopsis F-box Protein SLEEPY1 Targets Gibberellin Signaling Repressors for Gibberellin-Induced Degradation	- Sasaki et al., (2003) Science 299, 1896-1898 -Dill et al., (2004) The Plant Cell 16, 1392-1405
Dec. 6th	Mandy Kendrick	- Control of phyllotaxy by the cytokinin-inducible response regulator homologue ABPHYL1 -Control of phyllotaxy in maize by the ABPHYL1 gene	- Giulini et al., (2004) Nature 430, 1031-1034 -Jackson et al., (1999) Development 126, 315-323
Dec. 13th