You'd Prefer An Argonaute

RNA Journal Club 1/26/12

Posted in RNA Journal Club by YPAA on January 26, 2012

Decapping of Long Noncoding RNAs Regulates Inducible Genes

Sarah Geisler, Lisa Lojek, Ahmad M. Khalil, Kristian E. Baker, and Jeff Coller

Molecular Cell 45, 1–13, 10 February 2012.
DOI 10.1016/j.molcel.2011.11.025

RNA Journal Club 1/19/12

Posted in RNA Journal Club by YPAA on January 19, 2012

Cap-Assisted Internal Initiation of Translation of Histone H4

Franck Martin, Sharief Barends, Sophie Jaeger, Laure Schaeffer, Lydia Prongidi-Fix, and Gilbert Eriani

Molecular Cell 41, 197–209, 21 January 2011.
DOI 10.1016/j.molcel.2010.12.019

RNAi video animation

Posted in Media by YPAA on January 15, 2012

RNA Journal Club 1/12/12

Posted in RNA Journal Club by YPAA on January 12, 2012

Adaptation to P Element Transposon Invasion in Drosophila melanogaster

Jaspreet S. Khurana, Jie Wang, Jia Xu, Birgit S. Koppetsch, Travis C. Thomson, Anetta Nowosielska, Chengjian Li, Phillip D. Zamore, Zhiping Weng, and William E. Theurkauf

Cell 147, 1551–1563, 23 December 2011.
DOI 10.1016/j.cell.2011.11.042

RNA Journal Club 1/5/12

Posted in RNA Journal Club by YPAA on January 5, 2012

Selective Ribosome Profiling Reveals the Cotranslational Chaperone Action of Trigger Factor In Vivo

Eugene Oh, Annemarie H. Becker, Arzu Sandikci, Damon Huber, Rachna Chaba, Felix Gloge, Robert J. Nichols, Athanasios Typas, Carol A. Gross, Günter Kramer, Jonathan S. Weissman, and Bernd Bukau

Cell 147, 1295–1308, 9 December 2011.
DOI 10.1016/j.cell.2011.10.044

Cell Club 12/23/11

Posted in Evolution, Media by YPAA on December 23, 2011

Cell made a paperflick about a new study uncovering mechanisms of silencing of new transposons by piRNAs, from Bill Theurkauf and colleagues.

More evidence of non-boring scientists

Posted in Media, MIT by YPAA on December 17, 2011

Dennis is a cool dude; it’s self-reinforcing in his staff.

Remember, no grant could ever fund this kind of lab environment!

Kim Lab, Department of Biology, MIT

RNA Journal Club 12/15/11

Posted in RNA Journal Club by YPAA on December 15, 2011

The In Vivo Kinetics of RNA Polymerase II Elongation during Co-Transcriptional Splicing

Yehuda Brody, Noa Neufeld, Nicole Bieberstein, Sebastien Z. Causse, Eva-Maria Böhnlein, Karla M. Neugebauer, Xavier Darzacq, Yaron Shav-Tal

PLoS Biology | Volume 9 | Issue 1 | e1000573 | January 2011
doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.1000573

RNA Journal Club 12/8/11

Posted in RNA Journal Club by YPAA on December 8, 2011

Single-Molecule Imaging of Transcriptionally Coupled and Uncoupled Splicing

Diana Y. Vargas, Khyati Shah, Mona Batish, Michael Levandoski, Sourav Sinha, Salvatore A.E. Marras, Paul Schedl, and Sanjay Tyagi

Cell 147, 1054–1065, 23 November 2011.
DOI 10.1016/j.cell.2011.10.024

The 1990′s Khan Academy, on the topic of evolution

Posted in Evolution, Media by YPAA on December 7, 2011

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‘And, uhhhh-huh-heh-heh, for a more recent take on teaching this crap in school, uh, click the link under and like, skip to 9:30 or something. Or just watch the whole thing, you dumbass.’

‘Hnhnhnhn-hnhnhnhn.’

‘Whole. Uh-huh-heh-heh. Uh-huh-heh-heh.’

http://media.mtvnservices.com/mgid:uma:videolist:mtv.com:1675241/cp~instance%3Dfullepisode%26autoPlay%3Dfalse%26id%3D1675241%26uri%3Dmgid%3Auma%3Avideolist%3Amtv.com%3A1675241

Beavis and Butt-HeadFull Episodes

RNA Journal Club 12/1/11

Posted in RNA Journal Club by YPAA on December 1, 2011

Chromatin-associated RNA interference components contribute to transcriptional regulation in Drosophila

Filippo M. Cernilogar, Maria Cristina Onorati, Greg O. Kothe, A. Maxwell Burroughs, Krishna Mohan Parsi, Achim Breiling, Federica Lo Sardo, Alka Saxena, Keita Miyoshi, Haruhiko Siomi, Mikiko C. Siomi, Piero Carninci, David S. Gilmour, Davide F. V. Corona & Valerio Orlando

Nature AOP, 6 November 2011.
doi:10.1038/nature10492

RNA Journal Club 11/17/11

Posted in RNA Journal Club by YPAA on November 17, 2011

Coding-Independent Regulation of the Tumor Suppressor PTEN by Competing Endogenous mRNAs

Yvonne Tay, Lev Kats, Leonardo Salmena, Dror Weiss, Shen Mynn Tan, Ugo Ala, Florian Karreth, Laura Poliseno, Paolo Provero, Ferdinando Di Cunto, Judy Lieberman, Isidore Rigoutsos, and Pier Paolo Pandolfi

Cell 147, 344–357, 14 October 2011.
DOI 10.1016/j.cell.2011.09.029

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An Extensive MicroRNA-Mediated Networkof RNA-RNA Interactions Regulates Established Oncogenic Pathways in Glioblastoma

Pavel Sumazin, Xuerui Yang, Hua-Sheng Chiu, Wei-Jen Chung, Archana Iyer, David Llobet-Navas, Presha Rajbhandari, Mukesh Bansal, Paolo Guarnieri, Jose Silva, and Andrea Califano

Cell 147, 370–381, 14 October 2011.
DOI 10.1016/j.cell.2011.09.041

R.I.P., H. Gobind Khorana

Posted in Media, MIT by YPAA on November 14, 2011
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