Development
Iva Greenwald
April 5 - 9
Papers to discuss:
Monday 4/5--LIN-12/Notch-mediated cell fate decisions in C. elegans
Sternberg, P.W. (1988) Lateral inhibition during vulval induction in Caenorhabditis elegans. Nature 35, 551-554.
Seydoux, G. and Greenwald, I. (1989) Cell autonomy of lin-12 function in a cell fate decision in C. elegans. Cell 57, 1237-1245.
Mello, C.C., Draper, B.W., Priess, J.R. (1994) The maternal genes apx-1 and glp-1 and establishment of dorsal-ventral polarity in the early C. elegans embryo. Cell 77, 95-106.
(may carry over into Wednesday)
Wednesday 4/7--Mechanism and modulation of LIN-12/Notch signal transduction Struhl, G. and Adachi, A. (1998) Nuclear access
and action of Notch in vivo. Cell 93, 649-660.