Here's a sampling of some recent BIMO-type publications by some Williams alumni/ae

Finnerty JR, Pang K, Burton P '00, Paulson D, Martindale MQ.(2004) Origins of bilateral symmetry: Hox and dpp expression in a sea anemone. Science 304(5675):1335-7.

Qu J, Li X, Novitch BG, Zheng Y, Kohn M '96, Xie JM, Kozinn S, Bronson R, Beg AA, Minden A.(2003) PAK4 Kinase Is Essential for Embryonic Viability and for Proper Neuronal Development Mol. Cell. Biol. 23: 7122-7133.

Kumar M, '96 and Melton D. (2003) Pancreas specification: a budding question.Curr Opin Genet Dev.13(4):401-7.

Reya T '91, Duncan AW, Ailles L, Domen J, Scherer DC, Willert K, Hintz L, Nusse R, Weissman IL.(2003) A role for Wnt signalling in self-renewal of haematopoietic stem cells. Nature 423: 409-414

Doron C. Greenbaum, et al. (2002) A role for the protease falcipin 1 in host cell invasion by the human malaria parasite. Science 298: 2002-6.

G. J. Crowther '95, M. F. Carey, W. F. Kemper, and K. E. Conley (2002). The control of glycolysis in contracting skeletal muscle. I. Turning it on. Am. J. Physiol. Endocrinol. Metab. 282: E67-73.

G. J. Crowther '95, W. F. Kemper, M. F. Carey, and K. E. Conley (2002). The control of glycolysis in contracting skeletal muscle. II. Turning it off. Am. J. Physiol. Endocrinol. Metab. 282: E74-9.

Cary K, Lai, Michael C. Miller '96, and Kathleen Collins. 2002. Template boundary definition in Tetrahymena telomerase. Genes and Development 16: 415-420.

Michael C. Miller '96 and Kathleen Collins. 2002. Telomerase recognizes its template by using an adjacent RNA motif. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci, USA 99: 6585-6590.

8: Xu H, Ramsey IS, Kotecha SA, Moran MM '96, Chong JA, Lawson D, Ge P, Lilly J, Silos-Santiago I, Xie Y, DiStefano PS, Curtis R, Clapham DE. 2002. TRPV3 is a calcium-permeable temperature-sensitive cation channel. Nature 418(6894):181-6. PubMed link

LV Paliulis '97 and RB Nicklas. 2000. The reduction of chromosome number in meiosis is determined by properties built into the chromosomes. J Cell Biol.150(6):1223-32. PubMed link (also a review by Paliulis and Nicklas in Bioessays.( 2003)vol. 25(4): 309-12)

RJ Davenport '92, Wuite GJ, Landick R, Bustamante C. 2000. Single-molecule study of transcriptional pausing and arrest by E. coli RNA polymerase. Science 287(5462):2497-500. PubMed link

Career moves and other news

Congratulations to Terri O'Brien '02 (now at UCSF) and Sierra Colavito '02 (now at Yale) for receiving NSF pre-doctoral fellowships!

Matt Kohn '96 has finished his PhD at Columbia and is now a post-doctoral researcher at NIH.

Tannishtha Reya '91 finished her PhD at U. Penn and is now on the faculty at Duke University Medical School doing research on stem cells

Greg Crowther '95 has finished his Ph.D. from the University of Washington's Dept. of Physiology and Biophysics and is currently a visiting assistant professor at University of Puget Sound

Michael Miller '96 (UC Berkeley) was one of the recipients of the Harold M. Weintraub Graduate Student Award in 2001--this award is given by the Hutchinson Cancer Research Center to recognize "outstanding achievement during Graduate Studies in the Biological Sciences"

Jennifer Hood-DeGrenier '95 is now a member of the Wellesley College Dept. of Biological Sciences.

John Davenport '92 is now the Associate Editor for Science's Aging Network--an on-line resource highlighting current research in the area of ageing. Look for his by-line on a number of interesting articles! (do an author search for RJ Davenport in PubMed)

Nick Weiss '00 is an analyst with Barrington Associates, an investment banking firm.

Dan Richter '00 is working in the SNP Discovery Group at the Broad Institute

Sridar Ramaswamy '87 is a postdoctoral researcher in the Cancer Genomics group at the Broad Institute