ILSC Monthly Seminar: October 2010

The Transcriptome of a Mammalian Hibernator

Speaker: Dr. Marshall Hampton; Assistant Professor, Dept of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Minnesota Duluth

Time/Place: Thursday, Oct. 28th at 3:00 pm, 130 SMed

Abstract: Mammalian hibernators exhibit extreme physiological changes, with repeated bouts of torpor at low body temperatures (close to freezing) and reduced metabolism (1% of normal). These torpor bouts have interruptions by rapid arousals throughout a hibernation season. Massive changes in gene regulation are necessary for coping with these extremes. This talk reviews the phenomenon of mammalian hibernation and then presents recent work on characterizing the transcriptome of a model hibernator, the 13-lined ground squirrel (in cooperation with the Andrews lab). This involves data from Sanger sequencing, the Roche 454 platform, and in the near future Illumina sequencing as well.

2013

January: Michael Taylor
February: Marna Yandeau-Nelson
March: Paul Lockman
April: Martin Gruebele

2012

January: David D. Thomas
 February: Elizabeth Austin-Minor
March: Juliette Lecomte
April: David Millar
 May: Lukas Tamm
September: David Millar
September: Dongping Zhong
October: Jonathan V. Rocheleau
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2011

January: Clay Carter
February (a): Anne Kenworthy
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March: Joe Johnson
April: Marco Ciufolini
May: Gary Pielak
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2010

November: Rui Wang
October: Marshall Hampton