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
August 2008
Libertad García Villada
September 2008
Rajesh Kasiviswanathan
October 2008
Kathleen Richter
November 2008
Amy Abdulovic
December 2008
Yong Yang
January 2009
Jana Stone
February 2009
Brian Chorley
March 2009
Deepti Dwivedi
April 2009
Robert Fedic
May 2009
Libertad García Villada
June 2009
Rajesh Kasiviswanathan
July 2009
Kathleen Richter
August 2009
Jana Stone
September 2009
Yong Yang
October 2009
Amy Abdulovic
November 2009
Brian Chorley
December 2009
Deepti Dwivedi
TAC-Sponsored Seminars
Date
Presenter
Affiliation
Topic
December 8, 2008
Jef Boeke
Johns Hopkins Med
Retrotransposition
January 5, 2009
Susan Rosenberg
Baylor Med
March 9, 2009
Roger Woodgate
NIH (Bethesda)
TLS DNA polymerases
March 30, 2009
Daniel Bogenhagen
SUNY Stony Brook
Mitochondrial DNA
April 27, 2009
Nina Papavasiliou
Rockefeller U
Somatic hypermutation
May 18, 2009
Christophe Herman
Baylor Med
Heritable epigenetic errors
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: February 24, 2009.
Date
Presenter
Topic
February 25, 2009
Scott Lujan
Pol δ and DNA mismatch repair
March 4, 2009
Senyene Hunter
Insights into mitochondrial DNA repair
March 11, 2009
Jim Westmoreland
Endgames
March 18, 2009
Maria Shatz
The p53 functional network
March 25, 2009
Mike Murray
Surface mutations affecting Pol λ fidelity
April 1, 2009
Danielle Watt
Fidelities of Pols δ and ε on templates containing RNA
April 8, 2009
Roel Schaaper
Mutation in E. coli
April 15, 2009
Douglas Bell
Genetic variation in the NRF2 pathway
April 22, 2009
No seminar
April 29, 2009
Tom Kunkel
Overview of the DNA Replication Fidelity Group
May 6, 2009
Bill Copeland
What's new in MtDNA replication and repair?
May 13, 2009
Janssen Daly
Novel Rev3-/- mouse models in mutagenesis
May 20, 2009
Yong Yang
MMS-induced localized hypermutability
May 27, 2009
Giang Nguyen
Phage loss in P1 wild-type and Δhot lysogens
June 3, 2009
Alan Clark
Studies of DNA mismatch repair
June 10, 2009
Matt Young
Analysis of POLG2 disease mutations
June 17, 2009
Libertad García Villada
Mutation clusters
June 24, 2009
Omari Bandele
Polymorphic P53 response elements
July 1, 2009
Resnick
Global responses to DNA damage
July 8, 2009
Kasia Bebenek
Studies of family X DNA polymerases
July 15, 2009
Kathleen Richter
In vivo studies on the role of GCSP in immunity
July 22, 2009
Daniel Menendez
Novel p53 transcriptional network response elements
July 29, 2009
Jian Wang
SNPs in human MOSC proteins
August 5, 2009
Brian Chorley
Genetic variation in the NRF2 pathway
August 12, 2009
Amy Abdulovic
Investigating replication fidelity in yeast
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
Andy Larrea
Structure-function studies of DNA polymerase lambda
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
Jana Stone
Analyzing functions of Yeast DNA polymerase zeta
November 4, 2009
Jeff Stumpf
Mitochondrial DNA mutagenesis
November 11, 2009
Holiday
November 18, 2009
Mike Murray
Studies of the non-catalytic Rev7 subunit of pol 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
Scott Lujan
The specificity of DNA mismatch repair
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
Danielle Watt
Replication fidelity of family B polymerases
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)