biobytes
By The Rockefeller University Press
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Podcast Description
biobytes is a series of life sciences news podcasts highlighting original scientific research published in The Journal of Cell Biology. Each show features interviews with leading scientists from across the globe.
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biobytes: May 28, 2012 | In the May 28th edition of biobytes, Robert Tsai (Texas A&M Health Science Center, Houston, TX) explains how a nucleolar protein prevents telomere damage (Hsu et al.), and Niels Volkmann (Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute, La Jolla, CA) describes a vinculin splice variant that severs actin filaments instead of bundling them (Janssen et al.). Plus a round-up of other highlights from The Journal of Cell Biology. The show was written and produced by Caitlin Sedwick and Ben Short. Presented by Ben Short. See the associated papers in JCB for details on the funding provided to support these original research studies. | 28 5 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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biobytes: April 30, 2012 | In the April 30th edition of biobytes, Arthur de Jong (VU University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands) describes how presynaptic strength is determined by dendritic position (de Jong et al.), and Christopher Turner (SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY) explains how Hic-5 promotes invadopodia formation and cell invasion (Pignatelli et al.). Plus a round-up of other highlights from The Journal of Cell Biology. The show was written and produced by Caitlin Sedwick and Ben Short. Presented by Ben Short. | 30 4 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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biobytes: April 2, 2012 | In the April 2nd edition of biobytes, Chris Kaiser (MIT, Cambridge, MA) describes how cells regulate an ER enzyme that controls protein folding (Kim et al.), and Daniel Colón-Ramos (Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT) explains how Netrin signaling promotes synaptic assembly (Stavoe and Colón-Ramos). Plus a round-up of other highlights from The Journal of Cell Biology. The show was written and produced by Caitlin Sedwick and Ben Short. Presented by Ben Short. | 2 4 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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biobytes: March 5, 2012 | In the March 5th edition of biobytes, Andrei Bakin (Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, NY) discusses the transcriptional regulation of EMT (Gervasi et al.), and Barry Ganetzky (University of Wisconsin-Madison) explains how neuropeptide signaling promotes the growth of Drosophila neuromuscular junctions (Chen and Ganetzky). Plus a round-up of other highlights from The Journal of Cell Biology. The show was written and produced by Caitlin Sedwick and Ben Short. Presented by Ben Short. | 5 3 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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biobytes: February 6, 2012 | In the February 6th edition of biobytes, Sean Munro (MRC LMB, Cambridge, UK) describes how vesicle transport proteins localize to the trans-Golgi (Christis and Munro), and Heather Broihier (Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH) explains how FoxO regulates neuronal microtubules (Nechipurenko and Broihier). Plus a round-up of other highlights from The Journal of Cell Biology. The show was written and produced by Caitlin Sedwick and Ben Short. Presented by Ben Short. | 6 2 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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biobytes: January 9, 2012 | In the January 9th edition of biobytes, Hugo Bellen and Nikolaos Giagtzoglou (Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX) describe how ligand recycling regulates Notch signaling (Giagtzoglou et al.), and Jean Marie Blanchard (Institute of Molecular Genetics, Montpelier, France) explains how Cyclin A2 inhibits cell invasion (Arsic et al.). Plus a round-up of other highlights from The Journal of Cell Biology. The show was written and produced by Caitlin Sedwick and Ben Short. Presented by Ben Short. | 9 1 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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biobytes: December 12, 2011 | In the December 12th edition of biobytes, Peter Janes and Martin Lackmann (Monash University, Victoria, Australia) describe the crosstalk between A and B type Eph receptors (Janes et al.); and Vania Braga (Imperial College London, UK) explains how the Rac GTPase is regulated at intercellular junctions (Nola et al.). Plus a round-up of other highlights from The Journal of Cell Biology. The show was written and produced by Caitlin Sedwick and Ben Short. Presented by Ben Short. | 12 12 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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biobytes: November 14, 2011 | In the November 14th edition of biobytes, Charles Streuli (University of Manchester, UK) describes how the focal adhesion protein talin controls cell cycle progression (Wang et al.) and Axel Mogk and Bernd Bukau (Heidelberg University, Germany) explain how misfolded proteins are targeted to specific sites in budding yeast (Specht et al.). Plus a round-up of other highlights from The Journal of Cell Biology. The show was written and produced by Caitlin Sedwick and Ben Short. Presented by Ben Short. | 14 11 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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biobytes: October 17, 2011 | In the October 17th edition of biobytes, Pura Muñoz-Cánoves (Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, Spain) describes how macrophage activity is regulated during muscle tissue repair (Perdiguero et al.); and Marie Hardwick (Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD) explains how the anti-apoptotic protein Bcl-XL promotes cell survival by stabilizing mitochondrial membrane potential (Chen et al.). Plus a round-up of other highlights from The Journal of Cell Biology. The show was written and produced by Caitlin Sedwick and Ben Short. Presented by Ben Short. | 17 10 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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biobytes: September 19, 2011 | In the September 19th edition of biobytes, Carlos Rubbi (University of Liverpool, UK) describes how nucleoli directly regulate p53 (Boyd et al.); and Graeme Davis (UCSF, San Francisco, CA) explains how S6 kinase controls the size of neuronal synapses (Cheng et al.). Plus a round-up of other highlights from The Journal of Cell Biology. The show was written and produced by Caitlin Sedwick and Ben Short. Presented by Ben Short. | 19 9 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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biobytes: August 22, 2011 | In the August 22nd edition of biobytes, Karsten Weis (UC Berkeley, CA) describes how an ATPase controls the fate of mRNAs (Carroll et al.); and Robb MacLellan (UCLA, Los Angeles, CA) explains how adult cardiomyocytes permanently exit the cell cycle (Sdek et al.). Plus a round-up of other highlights from The Journal of Cell Biology. The show was written and produced by Caitlin Sedwick and Ben Short. Presented by Ben Short. | 22 8 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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biobytes: July 25, 2011 | In the July 25th edition of biobytes, Johanna Ivaska (University of Turku, Finland) describes how Rab21 and p120RasGAP compete to regulate integrin recycling (Mai et al.); and Greenfield Sluder (University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA) explains the relationship between cytokinesis failure and centrosome amplification (Krzywicka-Racka and Sluder). Plus a round-up of other highlights from The Journal of Cell Biology. The show was written and produced by Caitlin Sedwick and Ben Short. Presented by Ben Short. | 25 7 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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biobytes: June 27, 2011 | In the June 27th edition of biobytes, Robin Ricke and Jan van Deursen (Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN) explain how Bub1 overexpression induces aneuploidy and tumor formation (Ricke et al.); and Rolf Brekken (UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX) explains how SPARC promotes pericyte migration by inhibiting TGFβ signaling (Rivera and Brekken). Plus a round-up of other highlights from the JCB. The show was written and produced by Caitlin Sedwick and Ben Short. Presented by Ben Short. | 27 6 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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biobytes: May 30, 2011 | In the May 30th edition of biobytes, Edouard Bertrand (IGMM-CNRS, Montpelier, France) describes the real-time imaging and kinetic modeling of RNA splicing (Schmidt et al.); and Bernhard Schermer (University of Cologne, Germany) explains how a protein mutated in Nephronophthisis inhibits the Hippo signaling pathway (Habbig et al.). Plus a round-up of other highlights from the JCB. The show was written and produced by Caitlin Sedwick and Ben Short. Presented by Ben Short. | 30 5 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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biobytes: May 2, 2011 | In the May 2nd edition of biobytes, Peter Cavnar and Anna Huttenlocher (University of Wisconsin-Madison) explain how Hax1 regulates neutrophil migration (Cavnar et al.); and Ciaran Morrison (National University of Ireland, Galway) describes how centrins are required for DNA repair rather than centriole duplication (Dantas et al.). Plus a round-up of other highlights from The JCB. The show was written and produced by Caitlin Sedwick and Ben Short. Presented by Ben Short. | 2 5 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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biobytes: April 4, 2011 | In the April 4th edition of biobytes, Debbie Thurmond (Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN) explains how the insulin receptor directly regulates glucose transporter exocytosis (Jewell et al.); and Karen Oegema (Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, San Diego, CA) describes how the centralspindlin and chromosomal passenger complexes make separate contributions to cytokinesis (Lewellyn et al). Plus a round-up of other highlights from The JCB. The show was written and produced by Caitlin Sedwick and Ben Short. Presented by Ben Short. | 4 4 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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biobytes: March 7, 2011 | In the March 7th edition of biobytes, Charles ffrench-Constant (University of Edinburgh, UK) and Lisbeth Laursen (University of Aarhus, Denmark) explain how integrins regulate myelin synthesis in oligodendrocytes (Laursen et al.); and Judith Campisi (Buck Institute for Age Research, Novato, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA) describes the different functions of cellular senescence (Rodier and Campisi). Plus a round-up of other highlights from The JCB. The show was written and produced by Caitlin Sedwick and Ben Short. Presented by Ben Short. | 7 3 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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biobytes: February 7, 2011 | In the February 7th edition of biobytes, Steven Claypool (Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD) explains how mutations in the mitochondrial protein tafazzin cause Barth syndrome (Claypool et al.); and Leon Mullenders (Leiden University Medical Center, The Netherlands) and Maria Fousteri (BSRC Alexander Fleming, Athens, Greece) describe how cells coordinate the different steps of nucleotide excision DNA repair (Overmeer et al.). Plus a round-up of other highlights from The JCB. The show was written and produced by Caitlin Sedwick and Ben Short. Presented by Ben Short. | 7 2 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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biobytes: January 10, 2011 | In the January 10th edition of biobytes, Vinicio de Jesus Perez and Marlene Rabinovitch (Stanford University, CA) describe the signaling pathways that regulate blood vessel repair (de Jesus Perez et al.) and Alexandre Djiane (University of Cambridge, UK) discusses how a cell junction protein controls different signaling pathways in distinct epithelial tissues (Djiane et al.). Plus a round-up of other highlights from The JCB. The show was written and produced by Caitlin Sedwick and Ben Short. Presented by Ben Short. | 11 1 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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biobytes: December 13, 2010 | In the December 13th edition of biobytes, Elizabeth Chen (Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD) describes a podosome-like structure that promotes myoblast fusion during muscle development (Sens et al.); and Elisabeth Ehler (King's College, London, UK) discusses how a muscle-specific formin splice variant maintains cardiac myofibrils (Iskratsch et al.). Plus a round-up of other highlights from The JCB. The show was written and produced by Caitlin Sedwick and Ben Short. Presented by Ben Short. | 13 12 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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biobytes: November 15, 2010 | In the November 15th edition of biobytes, Deborah Andrew and Rebecca Fox (Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD) explain how transcription factors boost cells' secretory capacity (Fox et al.); and Ben Nichols (MRC-LMB, Cambridge, UK) discusses how flotillin microdomains control neutrophil recruitment (Ludwig et al.). Plus a round-up of other highlights from The JCB. The show was written and produced by Caitlin Sedwick and Ben Short. Presented by Ben Short. | 15 11 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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biobytes: October 18, 2010 | In the October 18th edition of biobytes, Manuel Théry (iRTSV, Grenoble, France) explains how cell shape governs ciliogenesis (Pitaval et al.); Eldad Zacksenhaus (University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada) describes how retinoblastoma protein inhibits apoptosis and autophagy during myogenesis (Ciavarra and Zacksenhaus); and Giuseppe Biamonti (IGM-CNR, Pavia, Italy) discusses how alternative splicing regulates epithelial-mesenchymal transitions (Valacca et al.). Plus a round-up of other highlights from The JCB. The show was written and produced by Caitlin Sedwick and Ben Short. Presented by Ben Short. | 18 10 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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biobytes: September 20, 2010 | In the September 20th edition of biobytes, Francesco Ramirez (Mt. Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY) explains how the extracellular matrix regulates TGFβ and BMP signaling during bone development (Nistala et al.); and Andrew Belmont (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL) describes how chromatin regions fold differently in different cell types (Sinclair et al.). Plus a round-up of other highlights from the JCB. The show was written and produced by Caitlin Sedwick and Ben Short. Presented by Ben Short. | 20 9 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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biobytes: August 23, 2010 | In the August 23rd edition of biobytes, Amy Kiger (UC San Diego, CA) discusses the effects of phosphoinositides on endosomes and cell shape (Velichkova et al., JCB); and Daniel Tschumperlin (Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA) describes how increased tissue stiffness contributes to the progression of pulmonary fibrosis (Liu et al., JCB). Plus a round-up of other highlights from the JCB. The show was written and produced by Caitlin Sedwick and Ben Short. Presented by Ben Short. | 23 8 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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biobytes: July 26, 2010 | In the July 26th edition of biobytes, Peter Devreotes (Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD) explains how the Ras GTPase controls chemotaxis in Dictyostelia (Cai et al., JCB); and Rakesh Kumar (George Washington University Medical Center, Washington, DC) describes a novel function for the actin-nucleating protein Arpc1b in regulating the mitotic kinase Aurora A (Molli et al., JCB). Plus a round-up of other highlights from the JCB. The show was written and produced by Caitlin Sedwick and Ben Short. Presented by Ben Short. | 26 7 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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biobytes: June 28, 2010 | In the June 28th edition of biobytes, Kodi Ravichandran (University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA) explains how the clearance of apoptotic cells affects human health and disease (Elliott and Ravichandran, JCB); and Jie Chen (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL) discusses how the mTOR kinase regulates a microRNA to control muscle cell fusion (Sun et al., JCB). Plus a round-up of other highlights from the JCB. The show was written and produced by Aimee deCathelineau, Caitlin Sedwick and Ben Short. Presented by Ben Short. | 28 6 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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biobytes: May 31, 2010 | In the May 31st edition of biobytes, Alexander Sorkin (University of Pittsburgh, PA) explains the multiple mechanisms that regulate EGF receptor endocytosis (Goh et al., JCB); and Manu Hegde (NIH, Bethesda, MD) describes emerging functions for the unfolded protein response(Rutkowski and Hegde, JCB). Plus a round-up of other highlights from the JCB. The show was written and produced by Caitlin Sedwick and Ben Short. Presented by Ben Short. | 31 5 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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biobytes: May 3, 2010 | In the May 3rd edition of biobytes, James Nelson (Stanford University, CA) explains the distinct cytoplasmic and membrane functions of α-catenin (Benjamin et al., JCB); Lesilee Rose (UC Davis, CA) describes how LET-99 helps position the mitotic spindle in C. elegans embryos (Krueger et al., JCB); and Gillian Griffiths (Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, Cambridge, UK) explores the surprising similarities between the immunological synapse and ciliogenesis (Griffiths et al., JCB) Plus a round-up of other highlights from the JCB. The show was written and produced by Caitlin Sedwick and Ben Short. Presented by Ben Short. | 3 5 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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biobytes: April 5, 2010 | In the April 5th edition of biobytes, Peng Jin (Emory University, Atlanta, GA) reveals the crosstalk between miRNAs and epigenetics during adult neurogenesis and Rett Syndrome (Szulwach et al., JCB); and Oliver Blacque (University College Dublin, Ireland) explains the ciliary function of the Joubert Syndrome-linked GTPase Arl13b (Cevik et al., JCB). The program also includes a round-up of other highlights from recent issues of the JCB and a special interview with one of the organizers of a recent Keystone meeting in Vancouver, Eileen White (Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ), who discusses the links between cell death and cancer cell metabolism. The show was written and produced by Eun Choi and Ben Short. Presented by Ben Short. | 5 4 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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biobytes: March 8, 2010 | In the March 8th edition of biobytes, Luisa Iruela-Arispe (UCLA, Los Angeles, CA) explains how VEGF signaling depends on the growth factor's context (Chen et al., JCB); and Aaron DiAntonio (Washington University, St. Louis, MO) discusses a previously uncharacterized protein involved in endosome maturation (Kim et al., JCB). Plus a round-up of other highlights from the JCB. The show was written and produced by Eun Choi and Ben Short. Presented by Ben Short. | 8 3 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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biobytes: February 8, 2010 | In the February 8th edition of biobytes, András Kapus (University of Toronto, Canada) explains how injury and TGFβ signaling combine to convert epithelial cells into myofibroblasts (Masszi et al., JCB); and Stephen Doxsey (U. Mass Medical School, Worcester, MA) discusses how a centrosomal protein contributes to a variety of human diseases (Delaval and Doxsey, JCB). Plus a round-up of other highlights from the JCB. The show was written and produced by Eun Choi and Ben Short. Presented by Ben Short. | 8 2 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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biobytes: January 11, 2010 | In the January 11th edition of biobytes, Brenda Andrews and Charles Boone (University of Toronto, Canada) explain how a novel high-throughput screening approach has provided fresh insights into mitotic spindle disassembly (Vizeacoumar et al., JCB); Arnaud Moris (Pasteur Institute, Paris, France) describes how an antiviral factor launches a two-pronged attack on HIV (Casartelli et al., JEM); and Vivek Malhotra (Center for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona, Spain) discusses how the actin-severing protein cofilin could help sort secretory proteins as they leave the Golgi apparatus (von Blume et al., JCB). Plus a round-up of other highlights from the JCB and JEM. The show was written and produced by Eun Choi, Amy Maxmen, and Ben Short. Presented by Ben Short. | 11 1 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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biobytes: December 14, 2009 | In the December 14th edition of biobytes, Matthias Peter (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland) discusses how ubiquitination targets Aurora B to the anaphase spindle (Maerki et al., JCB); Loise Francisco and Arlene Sharpe (Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA) report on how the PD-1 and PD-L1 receptor-ligand pair modulate regulatory T cells (Francisco et al., JEM); and Mary Porter (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN) and Thomas Heuser from Daniela Nicastro’s lab (Brandeis University, Waltham, MA) use cryo-EM to analyse the dynein regulatory complex (Heuser et al., JCB). Plus a round-up of other highlights from the JEM and JCB. The show was written and produced by Ben Short, Amy Maxmen, and Aimee deCathelineau. Presented by Eun Choi. | 14 12 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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biobytes: November 16, 2009 | In the November 16th edition of biobytes, Cathleen Carlin (Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH) explains how an adenoviral protein regulates cholesterol trafficking (Cianciola and Carlin, JCB); Deepta Bhattacharya (Stanford University, CA/Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO) describes how hematopoietic stem cells frequently vacate their bone marrow niche without dividing (Bhattacharya et al., JEM); and David Salomon (National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD) discusses the enhancement of Notch signaling by the Nodal co-receptor Cripto-1 (Watanabe et al., JCB). Plus a round-up of other highlights from the JCB and JEM. The show was written and produced by Eun Choi, Aimee deCathelineau, Amy Maxmen and Ben Short. Presented by Ben Short. | 16 11 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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biobytes: October 19, 2009 | In the October 19th edition of biobytes, Preethi Vijayaraj (University of Bonn, Germany) explains how keratins regulate protein biosynthesis (Vijayaraj et al., JCB - 05:50); Soman Abraham (Duke University, Durham, NC) reveals that mast cells release insoluble packages of TNF that signal to remote lymph nodes (Kunder et al., JEM - 14:00); and Gregory Longmore (Washington University, St. Louis, MO) describes how Cdc42 and Rho GTPases oppose each other to regulate epithelial cell shape (Warner and Longmore, JCB - 16:05). Plus a round-up of other highlights from the JCB and JEM. The show was written and produced by Eun Choi, Amy Maxmen, and Ben Short. Presented by Ben Short. | 19 10 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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biobytes: September 21, 2009 | In the September 21st edition of biobytes, Veila Fowler (The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA) describes the cytoskeletal structures that underlie hexagonal packing in lens epithelial cells (Nowak et al., JCB - 00:45); Elizabeth Nowak and Randolph Noelle (Dartmouth Medical School, Lebanon, NH), and Robert Coffman (Dynavax Technologies, Berkeley, CA) discuss new findings about IL-9 and the trouble with characterizing T helper cells according to the cytokines they secrete (Nowak et al., JEM and Locksley, JEM - 6:31); and Tao Wang (Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA) tells us how autophagy protects from neuodegeneration (Wang et al., JCB - 17:30). Plus round-ups of highlights from the JCB (21:39) and JEM (16:11). The show was written and produced by Aimee deCathelineau, Eun Choi, Amy Maxmen, and Ben Short. Presented by Eun Choi. | 21 9 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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biobytes: August 24, 2009 | In the August 24th edition of biobytes, Julie Hollien (University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT) describes how stress activates an ER-membrane nuclease to degrade mRNAs (Hollien et al., JCB - 00:45); Arne Akbar (University College London, UK) provides one explanation for why immunity diminishes with age (Agius et al., JEM - 08:15); and Valter Longo (University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA) reveals how an oncogene homolog promotes mutations in aging yeast (Madia et al., JCB - 16:15). Plus a round-up of other highlights from the JCB (08:15)and JEM (13:35). The show was written and produced by Eun Choi, Amy Maxmen and Ben Short. Presented by Ben Short. | 24 8 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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biobytes: July 27, 2009 | In the July 27th edition of biobytes, Primal de Lanerolle (University of Illinois Medical School, Chicago, IL) explains how SUMOylation guides actin into the nucleus (Hofmann et al., JCB - 00:45); Victor Nizet (UC San Diego, CA) discovers that Streptococcus bacteria use a cell wall protein to evade engulfment by host immune cells (Carlin et al., JEM - 07:40); and Jonathan Cooper (Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA) reveals that an endocytic adaptor protein recycles integrins to the leading edge to promote cell migration (Teckchandani et al., JCB - 14:35). Plus a round-up of other highlights from the JCB (05:35) and JEM (14:35). The show was written and produced by Eun Choi, Amy Maxmen, and Ben Short. Presented by Ben Short. | 27 7 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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biobytes: June 29, 2009 | In the June 29th edition of biobytes, Matthew Tyska (Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN) reveals how the intestinal brush border sends out packages of enzymes to combat gut pathogens (McConnell et al., JCB); Alwin Kraemer (German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg) explains how two centrosomal proteins mutated in neurodevelopmental disorders regulate mitotic entry (Tibelius et al., JCB); and JEM news editor Amy Maxmen describes how an immune pathway helps tumors grow (Wang et al., JEM). The show was written and produced by Amy Maxmen, Ben Short and Ruth Williams. Presented by Ruth Williams. | 29 6 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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biobytes: June 1, 2009 | In the June 1st edition of biobytes, Kristen Nowak and Nigel Laing (Centre for Medical Research, University of Western Australia) reveal that a heart muscle protein can replace its skeletal muscle counterpart to correct serious myopathy (Nowak et al., JCB), Manuela Sironi explains how parasites have driven interleukin gene evolution (Fumagalli et al., JEM), and Renato Iozzo tells of the anti-tumor effects of decorin protein (Goldoni et al., JCB). The show was written and produced by Amy Maxmen, Ben Short, and Ruth Williams. Presented by Ruth Williams. | 1 6 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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biobytes: May 4, 2009 | In the May 4th edition of biobytes we hear from Tatiana Petrova (University of Lausanne, Switzerland) about lymph vessel development (Norrmén et al., JCB), Makkuni Jayaram (University of Texas, Austin, TX) talks parasite persistence (Cui et al., JCB), and Thomas Jung (Novartis, Basel, Switzerland) tells us about a new drug to combat the autoinflammatory syndrome, CAPS (Lachmann et al., JEM; Nakamura et al., JEM). The show was written, presented and produced by Ruth Williams, with additional reporting by Justin Paul. | 4 5 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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biobytes: April 6, 2009 | In the April 6th edition of biobytes, we learn from Sergei Sokol (Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York) about a polarity protein's role in brain development (Lake and Sokol, JCB), we find out from Paul Anderson (Harvard University, Boston, MA) and Roy Parker (University of Arizona, Tucson) how stressed cells act on their destructive urges by chopping up tRNAs (Yamasaki et al., JCB; Thompson and Parker, JCB); and Jonathan Sprent (Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Darlinghurst, Australia) tells us about a new cytokine/antibody combination that protects transplanted cells in recipient animals without the need for long-term immunosuppression (Webster et al., JEM). The show was written presented and produced by Ruth Williams, with additional reporting by Justin Paul. | 6 4 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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biobytes: March 9, 2009 | In the March 9th edition of biobytes, we hear from Marc Freeman (University of Massachusetts) and Michael Coleman (Babraham Institute, Cambridge, UK) about a mutant superhero protein that protects neurons from degeneration (Avery et al. and Conforti et al., JCB). Also, Alan Rapraeger (University of Wisconsin) tells us about a synthetic peptide called synstatin that blocks cancer's blood supply (Beauvais et al., JEM). The show was written, presented, and produced by Ruth Williams, with additional reporting by Justin Paul. | 9 3 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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biobytes: February 9, 2009 | In the February 9th edition of biobytes, we learn from Scott Coonrod (Cornell University, Ithaca, NY) how neutrophils modify their chromatin to make effective bug-trapping nets (Wang et al., JCB). Patrick Wilson (University of Chicago) explains why having some self-reactive immune cells might not be a bad thing (Duty et al., JEM). And Tilmann Achsel (University of Leuven, Belgium) describes how, in neurons, mRNAs make the journey from nucleus to dendrites (di Penta et al., JCB). The show was written, presented, and produced by Ruth Williams, with additional reporting by Justin Paul. | 9 2 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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biobytes: January 19, 2009 - ASCB Meeting | The January 19th issue of biobytes brings you highlights of the 2008 annual meeting of the American Society for Cell Biology. We learn how bone marrow transplants might stall neurodegeneration (Craig Montell, Johns Hopkins University Medical School, Baltimore, MD). JCB News Editor, Ben Short, tells us about David Boettiger's (University of Pennsylvania, PA) work on the extracellular matrix and cell signaling. We hear how cancer cells find their way into the brain (Joan Massagué, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY). And lastly, we learn that fly phagocytes get the midnight munchies for certain bugs (Mimi Shirasu-Hiza, Stanford University, CA) and that breast cancer cells can have very intimate living arrangements (Michael Overholtzer, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY). The show was written, presented and produced by Ruth Williams, with additional writing by Ben Short. | 19 1 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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biobytes: December 15, 2008 | In the December 15th edition of biobytes we hear from Eline Luning Prak (University of Pennsylvania) about antibody gene editing and autoimmunity (Panigrahi et al., JEM), Richard Youle (National Institutes of Health, Bethesda) tells us how a Parkinson's-associated protein prompts mitophagy (Narendra et al., JCB), and Christina Mitchell and Megan McGrath (Monash University, Melbourne, Australia) explain how a protein called FHL1 makes muscle cells mighty (Cowling et al., JCB). The show was written, presented, and produced by Ruth Williams, with additional reporting by Justin Paul. | 15 12 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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biobytes: November 17, 2008 | In the November 17th edition of biobytes we learn that valproic acid improves the memory deficits of Alzheimer's model mice (Qing et al., JEM), Alan Hall (Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York) explains how Cdc42 keeps gut cells facing the right way (Jaffe et al., JCB), and Rachelle Crosbie (UCLA, CA) tells us why the little protein, sarcospan, could solve the big problem of Duchenne muscular dystrophy (Peter et al., JCB).The show was written, presented, and produced by Ruth Williams, with additional reporting by Justin Paul. | 17 11 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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biobytes: October 20, 2008 | In the October 20th edition of biobytes, Emma Hill (Journal of Cell Biology) joins us in the studio to discuss synaptic plasticity (Bergami et al., JCB) and also Alzheimer's disease (Sakurai et al., JCB), Franz Heinz (University of Vienna, Austria) explains how his team identified an entry code that flaviviruses use to get into cells (Fritz et al., JCB), and Vanda Lennon (Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, MN) describes the molecular details of Devic's disease (Hinson et al., JEM). The show was written, presented, and produced by Ruth Williams, with additional reporting by Justin Paul. | 20 10 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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biobytes: September 22, 2008 | In the September 22nd edition of biobytes Hema Bashyam (Journal of Experimental Medicine) joins us in the studio to discuss long term cardiovascular risk from short term sugar highs in diabetes (El-Osta et al., JEM) , Joshua Sanes (Harvard University, Cambridge, MA) describes how laminin plays match maker between nerves and muscle cells (Nishimune et al., JCB), and Habib Zaghouani (University of Missouri, Columbia, MO) describes the cellular events in newborns that might explain why babies are so susceptible to certain infections (Lee et al., JEM). The show was written, presented and produced by Ruth Williams, with additional reporting by Justin Paul. | 22 9 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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biobytes: August 25, 2008 | In the August 25th edition of biobytes Hema Bashyam (Journal of Experimental Medicine) joins us in the studio to explain how ticks fend off immune cells while they feed (Deruaz et al., JEM), James Allison (Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York) talks about a combination immunotherapy for cancer (Quezada et al., JEM), and Alana O'Reilly (Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia) explains how follicle stem cells have a hand in building their own niche (O'Reilly et al., JCB). The show was written, presented and produced by Ruth Williams, with additional reporting by Justin Paul. | 25 8 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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biobytes: July 28, 2008 | In the July 28th edition of biobytes Hema Bashyam (Journal of Experimental Medicine) joins us in the studio to discuss platelet derivation from ES cells (Nishikii et al., JEM) and a decade-early signal for Huntington's disease (Bjorkqvist et al., JEM), Pradipta Ghosh (University of California, San Diego) talks about a molecular switch for cell migration (Ghosh et al., JCB), and biobytes new recruit Justin Paul (Rockefeller University) asks Tony Hyman (Max Planck Institute, Dresden, Germany) how dividing cells set the length of their spindles. The show was written and presented by Ruth Williams and produced by Ruth Williams and Justin Paul. | 28 7 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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biobytes: June 30, 2008 | In the second June edition of biobytes we talk to Ken Smith (Cambridge University, UK) about how one protein poses a risk for two different autoimmune diseases (Willcocks et al., JEM), Aimee deCathelineau (Journal of Cell Biology) joins us in the studio to chat about pancreatitis and autophagy (Hashimoto et al., JCB), and Eric Schon (Columbia University, NY) discusses mitochondrial nucleoids and disease (Gilkerson et al., JCB). The show was written, presented, and produced by Ruth Williams. | 30 6 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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biobytes: June 2, 2008 | In the June edition of biobytes Peter Cook (Oxford University, UK) talks about what makes genes go to certain transcription factories (Xu and Cook, JCB), Toby Lawrence (Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, UK) tells us how to re-educate tumor macrophages (Hagemann et al., JEM), we hear about sluggish synaptic vesicles and schizophrenia from Zhuan Zhou (Peking University, Beijing, China)(Chen et al., JCB), and Xiao-Jiang Li (Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA) tells us about targeting cytoplasmic huntingtin aggregates with intrabodies (Wang et al., JCB), with comment from Junying Yuan (Harvard Medical School, Boston). The show was written, presented, and produced by Ruth Williams. | 2 6 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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biobytes: May 2, 2008 | In the May edition of biobytes we talk to Gerald Zamponi (University of Calgary, Canada) about what normal prion proteins get up to (Khosravani et al., JCB), Paul Goepfert (University of Alabama at Birmingham, AL) talks about HIV transmission (Goepfert et al., JEM, see also: Keipela et al., Nat Med), We learn that Rac1 has a role inside the nucleus (Michaelson et al., JCB), and Robert Schneider (New York University of Medicine, New York) reveals that translation control is more complex than we thought (Ramirez-Valle et al., JCB). The show was written, presented, and produced by Ruth Williams. | 2 5 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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biobytes: April 7, 2008 | In the April edition of biobytes Bart Lambrecht (Erasmus University Medical Centre, Rotterdam, Netherlands) reveals the secret of alum's success, Mario Colombo (Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori, Milan, Italy) talks about a tumor rejection by targeting T-regs, we hear about a new step in cancer cell movement from John Condeelis (Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York), and we learn about the link between stem cells, lamin A, and aging. The show was written, presented, and produced by Ruth Williams. | 7 4 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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biobytes: March 10, 2008 | In the March edition of biobytes Craig Morrell (John Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore) tells us about a brain factor that also promotes blood-clotting, we find out from Dennis Discher (University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia) how macrophages stop short of swallowing 'self' cells, Norma Andrews (Yale University, New Haven) explains how membranes are repaired by endocytosis and exocytosis, and we learn about a downside of an innate antibacterial response. Written, presented, and produced by Ruth Williams. | 10 3 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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biobytes: February 14, 2008 - ASCB | The February edition of biobytes is a special report on the recent annual meeting of the American Society for Cell Biology. We hear from Kasturi Mitra (National Institute of Health, Bathesda, MD) about a cell-wide mitochondrial fusion event that boosts ATP production; we learn how tumors build their own migration highways (work by Ning Yang, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI); we hear from Karen Ridge (Northwestern University, Chicago, IL) about how lung cells deal with physical stress; and lastly, Nikki LeBrasseur finds out from Erika Holzbaur (University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA) how microtubule motorproteins deal with road bumps. The show was written, presented, and produced by Ruth Williams. | 14 2 08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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biobytes: December 18, 2007 | In the December edition of biobytes we discuss how mature neurons avoid cell suicide, with Mohanish Deshmukh (University of North Carolina); the good and bad sides of a new angiogenesis factor, with Charles Lambert (University of Liege, Belgium); and lung cell overgrowth in asthma, with Patrick Berger (University of Bordeaux, France). We also learn what's behind a form of pyschosis that occurs in some lupus patients. The show was written, presented, and produced by Ruth Williams. | 18 12 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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biobytes: November 19, 2007 | In the November edition of Biobytes we discuss tumor cell migration with Aly Karsan (British Columbia Cancer Research Centre, Vancouver) and John Condeelis (Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York), and we talk to Danielle Malo (McGill University, Canada) about typhoid and malaria. Also in the show: urinary tract infections and neurodegeneration. The show was written, presented, and produced by Ruth Williams. | 19 11 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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biobytes: October 15, 2007 | In the October edition of biobytes we discuss stressed out yeast with Mark Ashe (Manchester University, UK), sepsis drug engineering with Hartmut Weiler (Blood Research Institute, Milwaukee), and cell death by detachment with Lance Terada (University of Texas). Also in the show: autoantibodies in multiple sclerosis, and mRNA editing. The show was written, presented, and produced by Ruth Williams. | 15 10 07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 60 Episodes |
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