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• Last BAYM of the season: Next week June 12!

  Date:

  05 June 2008

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  Our next (and last) meeting of the season is Thursday June 12, 2008 @ Harvard University, 7 Divinity Ave, Fairchild 177, Cambridge

  Summertime dinner party at 6pm
  Talks begin at 7pm

  Irina Voineagu
  Department of Biology, Tufts University (Mirkin lab)
  “Replication fork pausing at DNA repeats.”

  Laurie DiDonato
  BIOBASE Corporation, Beverly, MA
  “BIOBASE YPD, PombePD, and MycopathPD:
  An Integrated Resource of Fungal Protein Information”

  We’re also looking for volunteers to help run BAYM next year! Please contact Marcelo or Dawn if you’re interested.

  Download announcement flyer here. We appreciate you spreading the word.

• BAYM tomorrow, Thursday April 19 at Harvard Univ., Cambridge

  Date:

  16 April 2008

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  Thursday April 17, 2008 at Harvard University, 7 Divinity Ave, Fairchild 177, Cambridge

  Dinner at 6pm
  Talks begin at 7pm

  Igor Bruzual
  Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology, Tufts University (Kumamoto Lab)
  ”Candida albicans MDR1 drug resistance: The chicken or the egg.”

  Michael LaFleur
  Department of Biology, Antimicrobial Discovery Center, Northeastern University (Lewis Lab)
  “Novel methods to eradicate Candida albicans biofilms.”

  Please help us spread the word! Download flyer here and distribute to your colleagues!

• BAYM this week: Thursday March 20 at the Broad Institute

  Date:

  10 March 2008

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  Thursday March 20, 2008 at The Broad Institute, Cambridge

  Dinner at 6pm
  Talks begin at 7pm

  Charles Hoffman
  Department of Biology, Boston College
  “Practicing pharmacology without a license: Using fission yeast as a tool for high throughput drug screening “

  Melissa Chesarone
  Department of Biology, Brandeis University (Goode Lab)
  “Control of in vivo Actin Architecture by a Novel Formin Regulator”

  Please help us spread the word! Download and distribute our flyers here.

  Feel free to RSVP by leaving a comment here. Not necessary, but helpful. Thanks!

• Boston Area Yeast Meeting: Thurs. Feb 21 at Harvard

  Date:

  12 February 2008

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  BAYM

  Thursday February 21, 2008 @ MCB (Fairchild Building), Harvard University, Cambridge

  Dinner 6pm
  Talks begin at 7pm

  Primrose Boynton
  Department of Organismal and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University (Pringle Lab)
  “Biogeography of native yeasts in Sarracenia purpurea pitcher plants”

  Areez Mody
  FAS Center for Systems Biology, Harvard University (Ramanathan Lab)
  “Evolution and specificity of MAP kinase proteins in the environmental responses of yeast cells”

• Boston Area Yeast Meeting next week! Thursday Jan 17 at the Broad Institute

  Date:

  11 January 2008

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  Dear BAYMers,
  Happy 2008 to you all.
  2 announcements:

  1) Our next Boston Area Yeast Meeting is next week! PLEASE NOTE LOCATION: We are alternating meetings between Harvard and the Broad. This month it will be at the BROAD INSTITUTE.

  Thursday January 17th, 2007 @ The Broad Institute
  Free pizza, soft drinks and beer at 6pm
  Talks begin at 7pm

  Kevin Jefferies
  Sackler School, Tufts University School of Medicine (Forgac Lab)
  “Subunit H of the V-ATPase inhibits ATP hydrolysis by the free V1 domain by interaction with the rotary subunit F”.

  Felix Lam
  FAS Center for Systems Biology, Harvard University (O’Shea Lab)
  “Chromatin decouples promoter threshold and dynamic range “

  2) We need more speakers for 2008! Share a 30 minute talk about anything fungal. Please visit our website and click on “Schedule” to see the dates available, then e-mail us (Marcelo or Dawn).
  http://www.lsdiv.harvard.edu/baym/index.html

  Thanks!
  Marcelo mvinces@cgr.harvard.edu
  Dawn dawnt@broad.mit.edu

• Boston Area Yeast Meeting, POSTPONED DUE TO SNOW STORM!

  Date:

  07 December 2007

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  POSTPONED DUE TO SNOW STORM!
  New date will be announced at a later time.

  Professor Charles Hoffman
  Department of Biology, Boston College
  “Practicing pharmacology without a license: Using fission yeast as a tool for high throughput drug screening “

  Felix Lam
  FAS Center for Systems Biology, Harvard University (O’Shea Lab)
  “Chromatin decouples promoter threshold and dynamic range”

  If you plan to come, please RSVP by leaving a comment here (just to get a count for food).

  Also, we need more speakers for 2008. Please check out the website for dates.

• Mirkin lab post-doc position posting

  Date:

  17 September 2007

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  POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCH ASSOCIATE
  Description: Highly motivated and independent
  individual to work in the areas of genome instability and repeat expansion diseases.

  website
  http://ase.tufts.edu/biology/labs/mirkin/

  Requirements: Successful candidate should have a
  Ph.D. and a strong background in molecular biology
  and/or genetics. Experience in studies of DNA
  replication, recombination, and/or transcription in
  yeast or mammalian cells would be desirable. Areas
  of laboratory focus include the mechanisms of the
  instability of DNA repeats, which are responsible for hereditary disorders in humans, and the role of interplay between DNA replication and transcription in genome organization.
  Send a cover letter detailing both your scientific
  experience and your interest in this position, curriculum
  vitae, and contact information for three references
  to:
  Professor Sergei M. Mirkin
  White Family Chair in Biology
  Tufts University
  Biology, Barnum 101B
  Medford, MA 02155
  or e-mail: sergei.mirkin@tufts.edu.