Science Buzz Lunch in Building 1, Mixer Room, 6-8-2012
Topics discussed included:
1) Surgical technique for partial amputation of newt midbrain
2) Role of Oct4 gene homolog in controlling stem cell proliferation in Hydra
3) The great progress in recent years in elucidating the RNA-directed mechanism by which the Tetrahymena germline micronucleus (generally transcriptionall silent; containing 10 chromosomes) gives rise to the macronucleus (transcriptionally active; containing over 20,000 chromosomes produced by fragmentation and amplification of the gene regions from the micronucleus), reviewed in:
Developmentally programmed, RNA-directed genome rearrangement in Tetrahymena
by Kazufumi Mochizuki
in Develop. Growth Differ. (2012) 54, 108 - 119
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