Please make a recommendation for a serious scientific paper for our lab meeting on 2009-7-21. Please make all recommendations by 2009-7-16 and we will vote on which paper to read on 2009-7-17. Get real creative!!!!
Please make a recommendation for a serious scientific paper for our lab meeting on 2009-7-21. Please make all recommendations by 2009-7-16 and we will vote on which paper to read on 2009-7-17. Get real creative!!!!
Yuk Fai Leung says:
My suggestion will be posted as an independent entry.
July 15, 2009, 11:10 PMYuk Fai Leung says:
Check this out.
http://bilbo.bio.purdue.edu/leunglab/blog/?p=177
Even if you discuss another paper, this one is still interesting enough that is worth your time to read at some point. The technique being used was simple and straight forward. I recommend to spend more time in thinking the insights behind the findings.
Have fun!
July 16, 2009, 12:03 AMMonica Hensley says:
‘ALTERED REPRODUCTION IN FISH EXPOSED TO PULP AND PAPER MILL EFFLUENTS: ROLES OF INDIVIDUAL COMPOUNDS AND MILL OPERATING CONDITIONS’ by L. Mark Hewitt
This paper shines light on one of the many ways in which human production is negatively impacting fish. Many of our factories still to this day are allowed to dump off a certain amount of waste directly into our rivers, oceans, and streams. All in spite of the proof that these actives are depleting native fish populations. The rapid depletion of many aquatic animals is over looked, out of sight out of mind. One of the reasons I find this article so fascinating is that many of fish effected fish species are game fish. Still the threat of losing all our game fish doesn’t seem to bother people.
July 20, 2009, 12:34 PMYuqing Zhang says:
I would like to suggest this paper:
Visualisation and Quantification of Morphogen Gradient Formation in the Zebrafish.
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/picrender.fcgi?artid=2675906&blobtype=pdf.
Signalling molecules known as morphogens act in a concentration-dependent manner to provide positional information to responding tissues, which is pivotal for embryo development. But it is hard to directly observe the gradient. Using two approaches, one is trangenic zebrafish, the other is bimolecular fluorescence complementation, this paper quantified the spatial and temporal formation of nodal signalling activity, which is a morphogen that is important for the dorso-ventral axis of the embryo.
July 20, 2009, 8:54 PMLiyun Zhang says:
I recommend this paper “Switch in FGF signalling initiates glial differentiation in the Drosophila eye” It introduced that during the process of glial cell proliferation, migration and differentiation to wrap the axonal process, two different signals control this process through the same signaling pathway – FGF signaling. Some components in MAPK pathway are considered to be the downstream factors which contributed to the switch in cell response to FGF receptor activity. Though the experiment is not in zebrafish eye, the idea to gradually establish the regulation relationship is good for us to understand the gene regulation in retina development.
July 22, 2009, 7:43 PM