The Application of Fungal Systems to Molecular and Cellular Biology
Spring 2008

Rutgers: 01:681:683 RWJMS: MICR 5683
Mondays at 12:00 noon in Waksman Rm 1001
Course Grading and Policies

Course Coordinators
Terri Goss Kinzy - RWJ Medical School
Andrew Vershon - Rutgers University

2008 GSA Yeast Meeting, July 22-27, University of Toronto, Canada


Description:  This is a graduate seminar course that focuses on the current techniques and findings of research in fungal systems.  The format of the course is that on alternate weeks a faculty member will lead a discussion on assigned papers on a particular topic of interest.  This session will serve as a background for work that will be presented the following week as part of the RU/RWJMS Yeast Meeting. Some of this material is intended only for students registered in the course and is not for general public use. Access to some of the links is therefore password protected. The material on these pages is provided for educational purposes only. Unauthorized use of this material is prohibited.


Date
Lab
Speaker
Title
January 28
Kinzy/Vershon Review of Yeast Basics (Notes) (Figures) (Podcast)
Getting Started in Yeast, Fred Sherman
An Introduction to the Genetics and Molecular Biology of the Yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Fred Sherman
From a to alpha: Yeast as a Model for Cellular Differentiation, Hiten Madhani, Cold Spring Harbor Press
Web sites: SGD
The Art of Brewing, Miller Brewing Company
Baking, Red Star
Science of Yeast, Red Star
Yeast in Food, Vegimite
Harvest Moon Brewery
February 4
Gartenberg
  Liou et al. (2005)
February 11
Chia-Ching Chou
 
February 18
Kinzy
  Godon et al (1998)
Olarewaju et al (2004)
February 25 Anthony Esposito The Role of the Eukaryotic Elongation Factor 1B gamma in Response to Oxidative Stress
March 3
Zheng
  Tsang & Zheng (2007)
Li et al (2006)
March 10    
March 17
Hampsey
 

Krishnamurthy et al (2004)
Ansari & Hamsey (2005)
Singh & Hampsey (2007)

March 24
Hampsey
BN Singh Gene loops and transcription
March 31
Brill
  Bylebyl et al. (2003)
Uzunova eet al. (2007)
April 7
Brill
Jan Mullen A SUMO-targeted Ub ligase implicates poly-SUMOylation in the control of genome stability
April 14
Carr
  Li et al (2005)
April 21
Carr
Kristina Hashizume Probing the universal Role of Sec1/Munc18 proteins by mutagenesis of yeast Sec1
April 28
  Ahmed et al (2007)
May 5
Xinxing Qui

Saccharomyces Genome Database (SGD)
Rutgers / UMDNJ Yeast Labs
Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Graduate Program in Molecular Genetics,
Microbiology and Immunology
Graduate Program in Microbiology and Molecular Genetics
Created 8/1/05 Last updated 12/5/07