Department of Molecular Biology & Genetics

mailto:mbg@mbghopkins.org

News

Dec 16

Carol Greider, Ph.D elected to National Academy of Inventors

Aug 06

Welcome Jeff Coller, Ph.D., Bloomberg Distinguished Professor

Aug 06

How Cells Learn to “Count” – Andrew Holland, Ph.D.

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

Oct 17

Congratulations to Rachel Green on her election to the National Academy of Medicine!

Recent Publications

Pokrass MJ, Ryan KA, Xin T, Pielstick B, Timp W, Greco V, Regot S. Cell Cycle Dependent ERK Signaling Dynamics Directs Fate Specification in the Mammalian Preimplantation Embryo. (2020) Developmental Cell. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.devcel.2020.09.013

Aikin T, Peterson A, Pokrass MJ, Clark HR, Regot S. MAPK Activity Dynamics Regulates Non-Cell Autonomous Effects of Oncogene Expression. (2020) Elife. Sep 17;9:e60541. https://elifesciences.org/articles/60541

Pinkard O, McFarland S, Sweet T, Coller J. Quantitative tRNA-sequencing uncovers metazoan tissue-specific tRNA regulation. Nature Communications. 2020;11(1):4104. Published 2020 Aug 14. doi:10.1038/s41467-020-17879-x [link]

Schaffer, AE, Pinkard, O., and Coller J (2019). tRNA Metabolism and Neurodevelopmental Disorders. Annual Reviews Genomics Human Genetics. PMID 31082281. [ link ] [ pdf ]

Lee, CY, Putnam, A, Lu T, He S, Ouyang JPT and Seydoux, G. Recruitment of mRNAs to P granules by condensation with intrinsically disordered proteins. Elife. 2020 Jan 24;9:e52896. doi: 10.7554/eLife.52896. [link]

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 ]

Upcoming Events

Jan

Thu

MBG Seminar: Michael Elowitz, Ph.D., California Institute of Technology

Tickets

Jan 28 @ 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm

“Circuit designs for natural and synthetic multicellular systems”

Speaker: Michael Elowitz, Ph.D.
Professor of Biology, Bioengineering and Applied Physics; Bren Scholar
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
California Institute of Technology

Host: Sergi Regot, Ph.D.

Jan

Fri

MBG Journal Club via Zoom – link to follow

Tickets

Jan 29 @ 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm