Volume 2, may 1999

*Please note: only papers with an * can be viewed from outside MIT*

* Letter from the Editor

R E V I E W

• Mark Histed • Sequences in Spatial Working Memory
• Jason Kreisberg • Global Suppressor Mutations of Folding and Stability Mutants

U R O P   R E S E A R C H   P A P E R S

• Michael Altman • Self-Complementary Oligopeptides: pH and Temperature-Dependent Interconversion between Beta-sheet and Alpha-helix
• Orli G. Bahcall • The Isolation and Characterization of ORC3 Temperature Sensitive Alleles
• Jiyon Jane Choi • The Cloning of bHLH and bHLH-PAS Genes Expressed in the Embryonic Mouse Kidney
• Maitreya Dunham • ika1 and rag1 as Markers for the Development of the Zebrafish Immune System
• Paraskevi Farazi • Identification of the Non-Consensus AT-AC Introns in the E2F Family of Transcription Factors
• Bennett Gertz • Primordial Germ Cell-Specific GFP Expression Using a Modified Oct-4 Promoter
• Semi Lee • Construction of Fish and Hook Plasmids Fused with Green Fluorescent Protein for Detecting Small Ligand-Protein Receptor Interactions in a Yeast Three-Hybrid System
• Forrester Liddle • A Metabolic Requirement for the Accumulation of Mutants under Conditions of Non-Lethal Selection
• Carole Lu • MEI-S332 Determining the Functions of General Domains through Mutagenesis
• Marianne McPherson • The Function and Interactions of ced-9 in Caenorhabditis elegans
• Ben Moeller • Flp Recombinase-Mediated Conditional Knock-in Allele of Mouse Dnmt
• Seema Nagpal • Interaction of Bone Morphogenetic Protein Receptor Type IB with Metastatic Prostate Cancer Proteins via the Yeast Two-Hybrid System
• Michael Terry • Role of Cysteine 496 in the Folding and Assembly Pathway of the Bacteriophage P22 Tailspike Protein
• Amy Towfighi • Active Short Form of DCP-2a Cleaves Full-Length DCP-2b and DCP-2g
• Banny S. Wong • Chx10, a Paired-Type Homeobox Gene, Promotes the Differentiation of Bipolar Interneurons in the Rat Retina

P R O J E C T   L A B   R E S E A R C H   P A P E R S

• Nathan Ahlgren • Creation of a New Plasmid pFNK7 Containing the Fusion of the lambda P_L Promoter to the pEP2 repA Gene
• Amanda Gruhl • Localization of Het-A 23Zn-1 Protein Regions in D. melanogaster Cells Using GFP Fluorescence
• Farhana Jan • Construction of a Conditional Replicon for use in Rhodococcus
• June Kim • Characterization of Rhodococcus I24 for Mutations in the Indene Conversion Pathway
• Margaret Latocha • A Segment of D. melanogaster TART Retrotransposon ORF 1 May Encode a Nuclear Localization Signal
• Grace Lin • Screening for Proteins in the Prostate that Interact with HB-EGF and Amphiregulin Using the Yeast Two-Hybrid System
• Mausmi Mehta • Construction of a Transposon to Introduce a Corynebacterium Insertion Sequence, IS31492, into Rhodococcus
• Joshua R. Merok • Cloning and GFP Tracking of Selected Regions of the D. yakuba HeT-A Retrotransposon in Drosophila Cell Culture
• Moksha Ranasinghe • Probing the Lncap Prostate Cancer Library for Interactants with the Cytoplasmic Tail Domains of the Heparin Binding Human Epidermal Growth Factor-Like Growth Factor and Amphiregulin, Using the Yeast Two-Hybrid System
• Sharon Shen • Construction of a GlcNAc-TV Bait Plasmid for the Yeast Two-Hybrid Assay and Analysis of GlcNAc-TV Transcripts in Prostate
• Karthik Ram Srinivasan • Use of an RK2-Based Tri-Parental Mating System with Rhodococcus I24 and B264-1
• Natalie Tal • Modification of a Corynebacterium Transposable Element for Use in Rhodococcus Mutagenesis
• Lisa Tatterson • Construction of a Conditional Replicon for Rhodococcus
• Krista Vernaleken • Construction of Transposons from Corynebacterium IS31492 for use in Rhodococcus
• Hua-yin Yu • Identification of Regions Necessary for Replication in the Rhodococcus Plasmid pB264

P R O J E C T   L A B   R E S E A R C H   P R O P O S A L S

• Karen Chan • Generation and Characterization of Transgenic Mice Expressing CRE Recombinase in Neuropeptide Y Subclass Interneurons in the Brain
• Eric C. Chang • Study of Self-Induced Cytoskeletal Deformation in Fibroblasts on Engineered Self-Assembling Oligopeptide Surfaces
• Anjuli Kumar • Determining the Effect of BCR/ABL on Hematopoietuc Development
• Akiko Ogasawara • ‘Photographic Memory’ in Mice: A Transgenic Approach to Elucidate the Role of CREB as a Molecular Switch from Short-Term to Long-Term Memory in Mammals