Journal Club

Virology Journal Club

The Virology Journal Club is a series of virology research colloquia given by students and faculty from across the University.

Journal Club meets Wednesdays at 11:15 AM in the atrium of the Boyce Thompson Institute.

For more information, contact Michelle Bialecki or the presenter of the week. Empty spaces do not yet have anyone signed up. Please send references to Shelagh Johnston to be posted here prior to presentation.

Select here to see the previous semester's journal club schedule

Fall 2009

September

September 9th
Benedikt Kaufer <bbk7@cornell.edu>
Marlene Dreux, Pablo Gastaminza, Stefan F. Wieland, and Francis V. Chisari The autophagy machinery is required to initiate hepatitis C virus replication PNAS August 18, 2009 vol. 106 no. 33 14046-14051
September 16th
Susanne Moessmer <sm455@cornell.edu>
Danica Curanovic and Lynn W. Enquist. Virion-Incorporated Glycoprotein B Mediates Transneuronal Spread of Pseudorabies Virus
J. Virol. doi:10.1128/JVI.00745-09

September 23rd
Volker Vogt <vmv1@cornell.edu>
Jing Jin, Timothy Sturgeon, Ora Weisz, Walther Mothes and Ronald Montelaro, 2009. HIV-1 Matrix Dependent Membrane Targeting Is Regulated by Gag mRNA Trafficking
PLoS ONE 4(8): e6551. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0006551


Nathan Sherer, Chad Swanson, Stelios Papaioannou, and Michael Malim, 2009. Matrix Mediates the Functional Link between Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 RNA Nuclear Export Elements and the Assembly Competency of Gag in Murine Cells
J. Virol. 83:8525–8535

September 30th
Elena Kamynina<ek228@cornell.edu>
Weifeng Xu, Paul A Santini1, John S Sullivan, Bing He, Meimei Shan, Susan C Ball, Wayne B Dyer, Thomas J Ketas, Amy Chadburn, Leona Cohen-Gould, Daniel M Knowles, April Chiu, Rogier W Sanders, Kang Chen1, and Andrea Cerutti, 2009. HIV-1 evades virus-specific IgG2 and IgA responses by targeting systemic and intestinal B cells via long-range intercellular conduits
Nature Immunology 10:1018 - 1025

October

October 7th
October 14th
Michele Bialecki<mab269@cornell.edu>
Qingsong Qin, Craig Hastings, and Cathy L. Miller, 2009. Mammalian orthoreovirus particles induce and are recruited into stress granules at early times post infection
J. Virol. 83 (21):11090

October 21st
Rob Dick <rad82@cornell.edu>
October 29th
Hojong Ju <hj97@cornell.edu>
Phillip Harries, Jong-Won Park, Nobumitsu Sasaki, Kimberly Ballard, Andrew Maule and Richard Nelson. 2009. Differing requirements for actin and myosin by plant viruses for sustained intercellular movement
PNAS 106(41):17594-17599

November

November 4th
Victor Tse <lt273@cornell.edu>
Cheng-Chi Wang, Juine-Ruey Chen, Yung-Chieh Tseng, Che-Hsiung Hsu, Yu-Fu Hung, Shih-Wei Chen, Chin-Mei Chen, Kay-Hooi Khoo, Ting-Jen Cheng, Yih-Shyun E. Cheng, Jia-Tsrong Jan, Chung-Yi Wu, Che Ma, and Chi-Huey Wong. 2009. Glycans on influenza hemagglutinin affect receptor binding and immune response
PNAS 106(43):18137–18142

November 11th
Zhihong Hu <zh67@cornell.edu>
Itoh Y, Shinya K, Kiso M, Watanabe T, Sakoda Y, Hatta M, Muramoto Y, Tamura D, Sakai-Tagawa Y, Noda T, Sakabe S, Imai M, Hatta Y, Watanabe S, Li C, Yamada S, Fujii K, Murakami S, Imai H, Kakugawa S, Ito M, Takano R, Iwatsuki-Horimoto K, Shimojima M, Horimoto T, Goto H, Takahashi K, Makino A, Ishigaki H, Nakayama M, Okamatsu M, Takahashi K, Warshauer D, Shult PA, Saito R, Suzuki H, Furuta Y, Yamashita M, Mitamura K, Nakano K, Nakamura M, Brockman-Schneider R, Mitamura H, Yamazaki M, Sugaya N, Suresh M, Ozawa M, Neumann G, Gern J, Kida H, Ogasawara K, and Kawaoka Y. 2009.
In vitro and in vivo characterization of new swine-origin H1N1 influenza viruses.
Nature:460(7258):1021-5.

Read the full text. Supplementary data.
November 18th
Colin Parrish <crp3@cornell.edu>
Scott Hensley, Suman Das, Adam L. Bailey, Loren Schmidt, Heather Hickman, Akila Jayaraman, Karthik Viswanathan, Rahul Raman, Ram Sasisekharan, Jack R. Bennink and Jonathan Yewdell. 2009.
Hemagglutinin Receptor Binding Avidity Drives Influenza A Virus Antigenic Drift.
Science:326:734-736.

Read the full text.
November 25th - Thanksgiving

December

December 2nd
Sangbom Michael Lyi <sl82@cornell.edu>
December 9th
Gary Blissard <gwb1@cornell.edu>