Journal Club -Fall 2008

Graduate Student presentations of current journal articles

Wednesday at noon except where noted
Room 6364 Scott
Course Director: Russell Yamazaki, 6137 Scott Hall, 577-1173
ryamazak@med.wayne.edu

Article Instructions:
Link to PDF file for Journal Club guidelines: JClubguide.pdf
Click on the authors for the PubMed abstract. If your location has full-text access, you will see a button with the journal name (Example: PNAS Online). Click on the button to get to the text. You can usually also get a PDF file for printing or saving by clicking on the line that says "Reprint (PDF) version of this article". 
If you are accessing from off campus, you will need to use your WSU AccessID and password to authenticate your WSU affiliation to access full-text articles and  proprietary databases that are licensed to the WSU Library.

 
DATE
SPEAKER, TITLE AND REFERENCES
Sept 3
  
Sept 10
 Organizational Meeting
Sept 17
 Rotation reports - Main Maitah
Sept 24
 No Meeting - GSRD

Oct 1

Jian Wang
- A Polymorphism in CALHM1 Influences Ca2+ Homeostasis, Ab Levels,and Alzheimer's Disease Risk
- Alzheimer's disease: The latest suspect
Oct 8
 Mary Irwin
Oct 15

Maggie Prior
- Chemical and biological approaches synergize to ameliorate protein-folding diseases.
- Adapting proteostasis for disease intervention.
Oct 22


 Hitchintan Kaur
- Endogenous human microRNAs that suppress breast cancer metastasis.
- Small is beautiful: microRNAs and breast cancer - where are we now?
Oct 29




 Nicole Najor
- Identification of small molecule inhibitors of Pseudomonas aeruginosa exoenzyme S using a yeast phenotypic screen.
- Yeast chemical genomics and drug discovery: an update.
Nov 5




 Claudio Villalobos
- The antidepressant fluoxetine restores plasticity in the adult visual cortex.
- Critical period plasticity in local cortical circuits
- Hebbian synapses in visual cortex
Nov 12

Neete Benipal
- Coordinated upregulation of a series of endogenous antioxidants and phase 2 enzymes as a novel strategy for protecting renal tubular cells from oxidative and electrophilic stress
- Free Radicals and Antioxidants in the Year 2000 - A historic look to the future.
- Oxidants in Chronic Kidney Disease
Nov 19






 Kadija Abounit
- Cardiac-specific overexpression of caveolin-3 induces endogenous cardiac protection by mimicking ischemic preconditioning
- Pre-conditioning and postconditioning to limit ischemia-reperfusion-induced myocardial injury: what could be the next footstep?
Nov 26
 no class
Dec 3


 Main Maitah
- Transcription factories are nuclear subcompartments that remain in the absence of transcription
Dec 10
 Komal Sane - research presentation
PLEASE NOTE: PRESENTATION WILL BEGIN AT 1:00 pm