| Date | Presenter | Paper |
| 10/1/04 | Joost Monen | Tóth et al. (2000) Functional Genomics Identifies Monopolin: A Kinetochore Protein Required for Segregation of Homologs during Meiosis I. Cell 103: 1155-1168. |
| 10/8/04 | Nichol Goodman Miller | Reddy and Villenueve (2004) C. elegans HIM-17 links chromatin modification and competence for initiation of meiotic recombination. Cell 118: 439-452. |
| 10/15/04 | Michelle Mendoza | Ben-Aroya et al. (2004) The Compact Chromatin Structure of a Ty Repeated Sequence Suppresses Recombination Hotspot Activity in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Molecular Cell 15: 221-231. |
| 10/22/04 | Will Alaynick | Borner et al. (2004) Crossover/noncrossover differentiation, synaptonemal complex formation, and regulatory surveillance at the leptotene/zygotene transition of meiosis. Cell 117: 29-45. see also Review by Bishop and Zickler. |
| 10/29/04 | Stefan Aung | Rabitsch et al. (2003) Kinetochore recruitment of two nucleolar proteins is required for homolog segregation in meiosis I. Dev. Cell 4(4): 535-548. See also erratum for Figure 6 in Dev. Cell. 5: 523. |
| 11/5/04 | Stephanie Bielas | Revenkova et al. (2004) Cohesin SMC1 beta is required for meiotic chromosome dynamics, sister chromatid cohesion and DNA recombination. Nat. Cell Biol. 6: 555-562. |
| 11/12/04 | Adam Bouton | Gabriel et al. (2002) The structure of haplotype blocks in the human genome. Science 296: 2225-2259. |
| 11/19/04 | Minh-ha Do | Crackower et al. (2003) Essential role of Fkbp6 in male fertility and homologous chromosome pairing in meiosis. Science 300: 1291-1295. |
| Thanksgiving | ||
| 12/3/04 |
Mike Hannon |
Kong et al. (2004) Recombination rate and reproductive success in humans. Nature Genetics 36: 1203-1206. |
| 12/10/04 | Edmund Hollis | Chan et al. (2004) Condensin restructures chromosomes in preparation for meiotic divisions. J. Cell Biol. 167: 613-625. |
| 12/17/04 | Steve Miller | Mehlmann et al. (2004) The Gs-linked receptor GPR3 maintains meiotic arrest in mammalian oocytes. Science 306: 1947-1950. |
| Winter Break |
| Date | Presenter | Paper |
| 1/7/05 | Nate Heintzman |
Satoh et al. (2004) Epigenetic inactivation of class II transactivator (CIITA) is associated with the absence of interferon-c-induced HLA-DR expression in colorectal and gastric cancer cells. Oncogene 23: 8876-8886. |
| 1/14/05 | Scarlet Shell | Shi et al. (2004) Histone Demethylation Mediated by the Nuclear Amine Oxidase Homolog LSD1. Cell 119: 941-953. |
| 1/21/05 | Alain Silk | Weaver et al. (2004) Epigenetic programming by maternal behavior. Nature Neuroscience 7: 847-854. |
| 1/28/05 | Ambika Sundarasen | Kawasaki and Taira (2004) Induction of DNA methylation and gene silencing by short interfering RNAs in human cells. Nature 431: 211-217. |
| 2/4/05 | Ann Valle | Herman et al. (2003) Trans allele methylation and paramutation-like effects in mice. Nature Genetics 34: 199-202. |
| 2/11/05 | Harper VanSteenhouse | Ronshaugen M, Levine M. (2004) Visualization of trans-homolog enhancer-promoter interactions at the Abd-B Hox locus in the Drosophila embryo. Dev. Cell 7: 925-932. |
| 2/18/05 | Michelle Wagner | Okamoto et al. (2004) Epigenetic dynamics of imprinted X inactivation during early mouse development. Science 303: 644-649. |
| 2/25/05 | Wendy Books | Kantor, et al. (2004) Establishing the epigenetic status of the Prader-Willi/Angelman imprinting center in the gametes and embryo. Human Molecular Genetics 13: 2767-2779. |
| 3/4/05 | Matt Busse | Rohde and Cardenas (2003) The Tor Pathway Regulates Gene Expression by Linking Nutrient Sensing to Histone Acetylation. Mol. Cell. Biol. 23: 629-635. |
| 3/11/05 |
Tony Essex |
Nolen et al. (2005) X chromosome reactivation and regulation in cloned embryos. Dev. Biol. 279: 525-540. |
| 3/18/05 |
Jason Goode |
Schmitt et al. (2005) Intergenic transcription through a Polycomb group response element counteracts silencing. Genes Dev. (EPUB ahead of print) final print version: Genes Dev. 19: 697-708. |
| Spring Break | ||
| 4/1/05 | Lindsay Lewellyn | Verdel et al. (2004) RNAi-Mediated Targeting of Heterochromatin by the RITS complex. Science 303: 672-676. |
| 4/8/05 | Carrie Louie | Horike et al. (2005) Loss of silent-chromatin looping and impaired imprinting of DLX5 in Rett syndrome. Nature Genetics 37: 31-40 see News & Views by Pescucci et al. |
| 4/15/05 | Rany Salem | Hinds et al. (2005) Whole-genome patterns of common DNA variation in three human populations. Science 307: 1072-1079 |
| 4/22/05 | Group discussion | Lolle et al. (2005) Genome-wide non-mendelian inheritance of extra-genomic information in Arabidopsis. Nature 434: 505-509 see News & Views by Weigel and Jurgens |
| 4/29/05 | Alaynick / Aung | Research talks |
| 5/6/05 | Bielas / Bouton | Research talks |
| 5/13/05 | Busse / Gonzalez | Research talks |
| 5/20/05 | N. G. Miller / Hannon | Research talks |
| 5/27/05 | Heintzman / Mendoza | Research talks |
| 6/3/05 | S. Miller / Silk | Research talks |
| 6/10/05 | Valle / Wagner | Research talks |
Faculty: Bruce Hamilton (course director), Anthony Wynshaw-Boris