Science Buzz Lunch in Mixer Room, Building 1, February 4, 2013
Topics discussed included:
1) The thesis topics of Division of Biological Sciences Master's degree candidates in lunch participants' labs, ranging from a survey of nematode parasites in skinks in the Japanese main islands, to the evolution of UPR (unfolded protein response) components from single-cell fungi through vertebrates, to the roles of Piwi proteins and piRNAs in planarian regeneration.
Master's degree candidates from the Department of Biophysics will give short presentations of their work (in Japanese) tomorrow.
2) The paper "Dung Beetles Use the Milky Way for Orientation" by Marie Dacke et al. in the most recent Current Biology, Dung beetles are the first animals (other than humans) reported to use the Milky Way to guide their navigation.
and
Metastatic Colonization Requires the Repression of the Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition Inducer Prrx1 by Oscar H. Ocana et al.,
both published in the December 11, 2012 issue of Cancer Cell
These papers establish that plasticity of the cancer cells enabling an EMT followed by MET transition is required for the establishment of metastases by carcinomas
Topics discussed included:
1) The thesis topics of Division of Biological Sciences Master's degree candidates in lunch participants' labs, ranging from a survey of nematode parasites in skinks in the Japanese main islands, to the evolution of UPR (unfolded protein response) components from single-cell fungi through vertebrates, to the roles of Piwi proteins and piRNAs in planarian regeneration.
Master's degree candidates from the Department of Biophysics will give short presentations of their work (in Japanese) tomorrow.
2) The paper "Dung Beetles Use the Milky Way for Orientation" by Marie Dacke et al. in the most recent Current Biology, Dung beetles are the first animals (other than humans) reported to use the Milky Way to guide their navigation.
3) The papers
Spatiotemporal Regulation of Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition Is Essential for Squamous Cell Carcinoma Metastasis, by Jeff H. Tsai et al.
Metastatic Colonization Requires the Repression of the Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition Inducer Prrx1 by Oscar H. Ocana et al.,
both published in the December 11, 2012 issue of Cancer Cell
These papers establish that plasticity of the cancer cells enabling an EMT followed by MET transition is required for the establishment of metastases by carcinomas
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