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Fall 2005, Vol. 1, No. 4 | Back Issues
Research Briefs
From the Architectural Dynamics in Living Cells Program
Members of the Architectural Dynamics in Living Cells Program Shinya Inoué, Rudolf Oldenbourg, and Michael Shribak were invited to participate in WHOI’s “Symposium on Image Understanding” held on October 27 in the Redfield Auditorium. The Symposium was a joint venture with scientists from WHOI, MBL, and the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico.
Earlier in the month, Drs. Oldenbourg and Shribak attended the annual Optical Society Meeting held in Tucson, Arizona. Shribak was an invited speaker and gave a presentation on “Imaging Birefringent Biological Organelles Independent of Their Orientation in 3D Space.” Shribak was also present at Boston’s SPIE “Photonics East” conference.
Dr. Inoué was invited to present three lectures: one to the Knight Fellows as part of MBL’s Science Journalism Program, one to students in the joint MBL-Brown Graduate Program as part of their orientation, and one to faculty and students in the Biological Engineering Division of MIT as part of their regular fall seminar series.
From the Roberts Laboratory
Publications:
Biga P.R., S.B .Roberts, D.B. Iliev, L.A. McCauley, J.S. Moon, P. Collodi, and F.W. Goetz. 2005. The isolation, characterization, and expression of a novel GDF11 gene and a second myostatin form in zebrafish, Danio rerio. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part B: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. 141: 218-230
Roberts S.B., C. Romano, and G. Gerlach. 2005. Characterization of EST derived SSRs from the bay scallop, Argopectens irradians. Molecular Ecology Notes. 5:567-568
Jentoft S., N. Topp, M. Seeliger, J.A. Malison, T.P Barry, J.A. Held, S.B. Roberts, and F.W. Goetz. 2005. Lack of growth enhancement by exogenous growth hormone treatment in yellow perch (Perca flavescens) in four separate experiments. Aquaculture. 250:
471-479
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From the Bordenstein Laboratory:
Michelle Marshall joined the lab in September as a Research Assistant to study the structure, function, and evolution of a bacteriophage in the widespread bacterial endosymbiont Wolbachia. She was previously at the University of Indiana where she received her B.S. degree in biology.
Seth Bordenstein and Irina Arkhipova are helping Adjunct Scientist Bill Reznikoff start a mobile element cluster at the MBL. This cluster will establish an interdisciplinary group of leading scientists working on mobile DNA biology, including biomedical applications, evolutionary implications, and molecular mechanisms.
Publications:
Bordenstein, S.R., and W.S. Reznikoff. 2005. Mobile DNA in obligate intracellular bacteria. Nature Reviews Microbiology 3:
688-699.
Bordenstein, S.R., and R.B. Rosengaus. Discovery of a novel Wolbachia supergroup in Isoptera. Current Microbiology. In press.
Casiraghi M., S.R. Bordenstein, L. Baldo, N. Lo, T. Beninati, J.J. Wernegreen, J.H. Werren, and C. Bandi. Phylogeny of Wolbachia based on gltA, groEL and ftsZ gene sequences: Clustering of arthropod and nematode symbionts in the F supergroup and evidence for further diversity in the Wolbachia tree. Microbiology. In press.
Baldo, L., S.R. Bordenstein, J.J. Wernegreen, and J.H. Werren. Widespread recombination throughout Wolbachia genomes. Molecular Biology and Evolution. In press.
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