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Journal club 5/9

Monday, May 12th, 2008

gene environment interactions/semantics party 2008
Cascading transcriptional effects of a naturally occurring frameshift mutation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.
PMID: 18422925
Gene-Environment Interaction in Yeast Gene Expression.
PMID: 18416601

Journal Club 4/25

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008

After a loooong hiatus of visits and parties and qualifying exams, good ol’ JC came back with a paper from Erin O’Shea’s lab: “Chromatin decouples promoter threshold from dynamic range.” Solid stuff.
PMID: 18418379

Journal club 3/28

Friday, March 28th, 2008

Journal club!
Hell of oblong bicoid: “Shape and function of the Bicoid morphogen gradient in dipteran species with different sized embryos” from Gregor et al.
Hell of jumping nucleosomes: “Dynamic Remodeling of individual nucleosomes across a eukaryotic genome in response to transcriptional perturbation” from Shivaswamy et al.
Hell of pleiotropic scaling effects: “Pleiotropic scaling of gene effects and […]