Department of Molecular Biology & Genetics

News

Jan 27

Jeremy Nathans, M.D., Ph.D, is the 2020 recipient of the Benjamin Franklin Medal in Life Science

Apr 17

Rachel Green, Ph.D. elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Apr 17

Jeremy Nathans and King-Wai Yau Recipients of the 2019 Helen Keller Prize for Vision Research

Feb 22

Bram Lambrus is a 2019 recipient of the Weintraub Graduate Student Award

Jan 16

Baltimore Appears on the New York Times List of 52 Places to Visit in 2018

Nov 13

Congratulations to Sin Urban, 2017 Discovery Innovation Awardee.

Oct 26

Dr. Carol Greider will accept the Alma Dea Morani award on November 3, 2017

Recent Publications

Sabbagh M.F., Nathans J. (2020) A genome-wide view of the de-differentiation of central nervous system endothelial cells in culture. eLife 9:e51276 doi: 10.7554/eLife.51276. [ link ] [ pdf ]

Park, E, Scott, PM, Clutario, KM, Cassidy, KB, Zhan, K, Gerber and Holland, AJ. (2019) WBP11 is required for splicing the TUBGCP6 pre-mRNA to promote centriole duplication. Journal of Cell Biology 219 (1): e201904203. [ link ] [ pdf ]

Mercey, O*, Levine, M.S*, LoMastro, G, Rostaing, P, Brotslaw, E, Gomez, V, Kumar, A, Spassky, N, Mitchell, BJ, Meunier, A* and Holland, AJ.* (2019) Massive centriole production can occur in the absence of deuterosomes in multiciliated cells. Nature Cell Biology 21: 1544-52. (2019). *equal contribution [ link ] [ pdf ]

Alexandre Paix, Dominique Rasoloson, Andrew Folkmann, and Geraldine Seydoux (2019). Rapid Tagging of Human Proteins with Fluorescent Reporters by Genome Engineering using Double-Stranded DNA Donors. Current Protocols in Molecular Biology e102, Volume 129. [ link ]

Heng J.S., Hackett S.F., Stein-O'Brien G.L., Winer B.L., Williams J., Goff L.A., Nathans J. (2019) Comprehensive analysis of a mouse model of spontaneous uveoretinitis using single-cell RNA sequencing. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 116 (52) 26734-26744. [ link ] [ pdf ]

Lee, CY, Putnam, A, Lu T., Seydoux, G 2019. Recruitment of mRNAs to P granules by gelation with intrinsically-disordered proteins. http://biorxiv.org/cgi/content/short/732057v1. [ pdf ] ,

Ouyang, JPT, Folkmann, A, Bernard, L, Lee, CY, Seroussi, U, Charlesworth, AG et al. P Granules Protect RNA Interference Genes from Silencing by piRNAs. Dev. Cell. 2019</u>; :. doi: 10.1016/j.devcel.2019.07.026. [ pdf ]

Upcoming Events

Jul

16

Thu

MBG Seminar: Dr. Mario Livio, Astrophysicist and Author “Galileo and the Science Deniers”

Tickets

Jul 16 @ 11:00 am – 12:00 pm

You are invited to a Molecular Biology and Genetics Zoom Seminar:

Speaker: Dr. Mario Livio
Astrophysicist and Author
“Galileo and the Science Deniers”



Thursday, July 16, 2020
Seminar:  11:00 AM
Host:  Dr. Jeremy Nathans

For Zoom Access, please email Cindy Rogers
crogers@jhmi.edu