BIOM 242 Seminar in Genetics

UCSD Genetics Training Program
2009-2010

Fall '09 Winter '10 Spring '10
Previous topics: 2008-09 2007-08 2006-07 2005-06 2004-05

BIOM 242: Seminar in Genetics


Date Presenter Paper
9/30/09 Organizational meeting
Leichtag 3A05 - 8 am
Introductions, GTP Student Advising Committee, Choose Fall topic, How to choose and critique a paper.

Fall topic: Unusual Patterns of Inheritance
transvection, paramutation, heterosis, epialleles, unexplained pattrens of inheritance...
10/7/09 Dan Clark
why do some disorders with high heritability have so little of the variance explained?

Smith et al. (2009) Genome-wide association study of bipolar disorder in European American and African American individuals. Mol. Psych. 14: 755-763.

10/21/09 Tom Cohen Nejentsev et al. (2009) Rare Variants of IFIH1, a Gene Implicated in Antiviral Responses, Protect Against Type 1 Diabetes. Science 324: 387-389.
10/28/09 Rafael Gomez-Amaro Rangwala et al. (2006) Meiotically Stable Natural Epialleles of Sadhu, a Novel Arabidopsis Retroposon. PLoS Genetics 2: e36.
11/4/09

Stephanie Nissen

Chong et al. (2007) Modifiers of epigenetic reprogramming show paternal effects in the mouse.
Nature Genetics 39: 614-622.
11/11/09 Michael Kalichman Ethics and Animals.
11/18/09 Britt Flaherty Rassoulzadegan et al. (2006) RNA-mediated non-mendelian inheritance of an epigenetic change in the mouse. Nature 441:469-474.
11/26/09 Thanksgiving
12/2/09 Morgan Pence
12/9/09 Eveline Sun
12/16/09 Taylor Bright
Winter Break

Winter topic: TBA
1/6/10 David Kochman
1/13/10 Julianne McCall
1/20/10 Jeff Nelson
1/27/10 Pagkapol Pongsawakul
2/3/10 Erilynn Russo
2/10/10 Deanna Stevens
2/17/10 Emily Witham
2/24/10 Gordon Bean
3/3/10 Anne Conway
3/10/10 Emma Garren
3/17/10
Spring Break

Spring topic: TBA
3/31/10 Michael Lam
4/7/10 Mark Moyle
4/14/10 Chloe Rivera
4/21/10 Thomas Stark
4/28/10 Melissa Wilbert
5/5/10 Susan Zhang
5/12/10
5/19/10
5/26/10
6/2/10
6/9/10
Participating faculty: Bruce Hamilton (Program Director), Richard Kolodner (Associate Director),
Elizabeth Winzeler, Gene Yeo, Ben Yu, Michael Kalichman