Umut's work in collaboration with Amy Gladfelter's lab is finally out in Current Biology; clink here to download it. Umut did some very nice quantitative analysis of movies made by Cori from Amy's lab showing that the nuclei within the common cytoplasm of ashbya cells push against one another and maintain their own, growing, territories within the single cell. Well done to all to see this project through to the end.
Check out this video from a camera strapped to an eagle flying in the french alps http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3QrhdfLCO8&feature=player_embedded#t=21
awesome
Congratulations to Elena Kassianidou, a former undergraduate student in the lab now doing her phd at Berkeley, who was just awarded an HHMI international doctoral fellowship!
Our review of G1/S transcription was just published in Nature Reviews MCB, and is available at http://www.nature.com/nrm/journal/v14/n8/abs/nrm3629.html. The review was the most downloaded last week, which was against the odds as it beat out work on the hot topics of microRNAs and stem cells.
It was at the Beckman Center and hosted by the UC Irvine systems biology crowd. It was a very nice meeting and I learned a lot; I also hope the stem cell differentiation crowd will pick up on the work from Andreas and Umut as they are approaching similar problems related to temporal aspects of gene expression and commitment points as we as reversible decisions. I also really like the following piece of art that hung in my hotel room in the Newport Beach Hyatt
The girl is looking coy, but it is the two guys holding hands... That this piece is in hotels in conservative parts of California is pretty cool. I'm feeling optimistic as well.