The LMG Trainee Action Committee (TAC) sponsors a speakers program and the annual LMG retreat. Please consult the current chairperson for details.
TAC Chairpersons
Month
Chairperson
September 2009
Yong Yang
October 2009
Amy Abdulovic
November 2009
Omari Bandele
December 2009
Deepti Dwivedi
January 2010
Hemakumara Mutra
February 2010
Jeff Stumpf
March 2010
Kathleen Richter
April 2010
Rich Gradman
May 2010
Jana Stone
June 2010
Yong Yang
July 2010
Amy Abdulovic
August 2010
Deepti Dwivedi
September 2010
Omari Bandele
October 2010
Hemakumara Mutra
November 2010
Jeff Stumpf
December 2010
Kathleen Richter
TAC-Sponsored Seminars
Date
Presenter
Affiliation
Topic
November 2, 2009
JoAnne Stubbe
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Ribonucleotide reductases
November 16, 2009
Brian Strahl
University of North Carolina
Chromatin structure/function
January 11, 2010
James R. Lupski
Baylor Med
Human genetic disease
February 2, 2010
Gerald S. Shadel
Yale University
Mitochondrial DNA
LMG Seminar Series
The LMG Seminar Series occurs on Wednesdays at 12:10 P.M. in Room D-350. Please see the following list for details.
This listing was last updated: July 16, 2009.
Date
Presenter
Topic
July 22, 2009
Daniel Menendez
Novel p53 transcriptional network response elements
July 29, 2009
Open
August 5, 2009
Brian Chorley
Genetic variation in the NRF2 pathway
August 12, 2009
Jian Wang
SNPs in human MOSC proteins
August 19, 2009
Raghu Dronamraju
DSB repair in Drosophila
August 26, 2009
Rajesh Kasiviswanathan
Mapping the dRP lyase active site in pol γ
September 2, 2009
Amy Abdulovic
Investigating replication fidelity in yeast
September 9, 2009
Wenjian Ma
DNA break repair in human cells
September 16, 2009
Xuting Wang
Genetic variation in the NRF2 pathway
September 23, 2009
Deepti Dwivedi
dNTP pools and mutagenesis
September 30, 2009
Ming-Lang Zhao
Immunoregulation of lupus nephritis
October 7, 2009
Rich Gradman
Non-clustered multiple mutations
October 14, 2009
Wataru Nakai
Chromosome breaks
October 21, 2009
Deepa Sambandan
Hyperoxia and the NRF2 pathway
October 28, 2009
Andy Larrea
Structure-function studies of DNA polymerase lambda
November 4, 2009
Jeff Stumpf
Mitochondrial DNA mutagenesis
November 11, 2009
Holiday
November 18, 2009
Jana Stone
Analyzing functions of Yeast DNA polymerase zeta
November 25, 2009
No seminar
December 2, 2009
Shay Covo
Genomic instability associated with cohesin
December 9, 2009
Gary Pittman
Epigenetics and exposure
December 16, 2009
Mark Itsko
Deciphering the function of the E. coli dgt gene
December 23, 2009
No seminar
December 30, 2009
No seminar
2010
January 6, 2010
Chuancang Jiang
Somatic hypermutation and autoimmunity
January 13, 2010
Mike Murray
Studies of the non-catalytic Rev7 subunit of pol zeta
January 20, 2010
Dmitry Gordenin
Genome instability in yeast
January 27, 2010
Matt Longley
Proteins at the mtDNA replication fork
February 3, 2010
Michelle Campbell
NRF2 ChIP
February 10, 2010
Schaaper group
TBA
February 17, 2010
Scott Lujan
The specificity of DNA mismatch repair
February 24, 2010
Maria Shatz
Novel functions of p53
March 3, 2010
Marilyn Diaz
An update on the immunoglobulin mutation mechanism
March 10, 2010
Hemakumar Mutra
Telomere structure in Drosophila
March 17, 2010
Vijii Panduri
Hyperoxia-induced DNA damage
March 24, 2010
Mercy Arana
Error-prone family-A DNA polymerases
March 31, 2010
Jim Westmoreland
Double-strand break repair: beginning at the end(s)