PRESENTATION TOPICS

G25.1815

MACROMOLECULAR STRUCTURE

FALL 2000

INSTRUCTIONS FOR PRESENTATIONS:

[1] EVERYBODY WILL HAVE A TOTAL OF 18 MINUTES. PLEASE COME TO CLASS AS EARLY AS POSSIBLE, BECAUSE IF EVERYONE IS THERE WE CAN START. WE WILL START WHEN EVERYONE IS THERE, OR 3:30, WHICHEVER COMES FIRST.

[2] PLAN TO SPEND NO MORE THAN 13 MINUTES ON YOUR TALK. THE REST OF THE TIME IS FOR DISCUSSION. I WILL CUT YOU OFF AFTER 13 MINUTES.

[3] YOU SHOULD USE OVERHEADS TO ILLUSTRATE THE IMPORTANT FIGURES AND POINTS IN THE PAPER. THESE SHOULD BE DERIVED FROM THE ORIGINAL PUBLICATION, NOT FROM THE REDUCED B&W XEROX IN THE LIBRARY. IF FIGURES ARE IN COLOR IN THE ORIGINAL, YOUR OVERHEADS SHOULD BE IN COLOR, AS WELL. START LOOKING FOR YOUR ARTICLES NOW. IF THEY ARE HARD TO FIND, TELL ME. IF YOU START MAKING YOUR OVERHEADS THE NIGHT BEFORE YOUR TALK, YOU MAY HAVE ONLY GARBAGE TO SHOW. POINT ON THE SCREEN, NOT ON THE PROJECTOR.

[4] EVERYBODY IS RESPONSIBLE FOR EVERY PAPER. THAT IS WHY WE HAVE 5 MINUTES OF DISCUSSION SCHEDULED. YOU WILL BE GRADED ON YOUR DISCUSSION PARTICIPATION. EVERYBODY STARTS WITH A DISCUSSION GRADE OF 'C', A FAILING GRADE FOR A GRADUATE STUDENT. HOWEVER, IF YOU ASK A DUMB QUESTION, INDICATING THAT YOU HAVE NOT READ THE ARTICLE, YOU WILL GET A GRADE BELOW 'C'. GOOD QUESTIONS DO NOT REPEAT WHAT THE SPEAKER JUST SAID, BUT INVOLVE CLARIFICATION OF POINTS RAISED. IF I AM UNSATISFIED WITH THE QUALITY OF DISCUSSION, I WILL GIVE A FINAL EXAM ON THE CONTENT OF THE PAPERS. OTHERWISE I WON'T.

[5] PRACTICE YOUR TALK AT LEAST 30 TIMES!!!

(1) TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 28 -- Manqing Hong

30S RIBOSOME STRUCTURE

  1. Wimberly, B.T., Brodersen, D.E., Clemons, W.M., Jr., Morgan-Warren, R.J., Carter, A.P., Vonrhein, C., Hartschl, T. & Ramakrishnan, V., Structure of the 30S ribosomal subunit, Nature 407, 327-339 (2000).

(2) TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 28 -- Baoquan Ding

30S INTERPRETATION

1. Carter, A.P., Clemons, W.M., Brodersen, D.E., Morgan-Warren, R.J., Wimberly, B.T. & Ramakrishnan, V., Functional insights from the structure of the 30S ribosomal subunit and its interactions with antibiotics, Nature 407, 340-348 (2000).

(3) TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 28 -- Jing Zhang

50 S RIBOSOME STRUCTURE

1. Ban, N., Nissen, P., Hansen, J., Moore, P.B. & Steitz, T.A., The complete atomic structure of the large ribosomal subunit at 2.4 Å resolution, Science 289, 905-920 (2000).

(4) TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 28 -- Ling Zhang

50S RIBOSOME ACTIVITY

1. Nissen, P., Hansen, J., Ban, N., Moore, P.B. & Steitz, T.A., The structural basis of ribosome activity in peptide bond synthesis, Science 289, 920-930 (2000).

(5) THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 30 -- Maksim Royzen

RNA POLYMERASE II STRUCTURE

1. Cramer, P., Bushnell, D.A., Fu, J., Gnatt, A.L., Maier-Davis, B., Thompson, N.E., Burgess, R.R., Edwards, A.M., David, P.R. & Kornberg, R.D., Architecture of RNA polymerase II and implications for the transcription mechanism, Science 288, 640-649 (2000).

(6) THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 30 -- Eunjung Shim

DNA RECOMBINASE STRUCTURE

1. Chen, Y., Narendra, U., Iype, L.E, Cox, M.M. & Rice, P.A., Crystal structure of a Flp recombinase-Holliday junction complex: Assembly of an active oligomer by helix swapping, Mol. Cell 8, 885-897 (2000).

(7) THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 30 -- Yeufeng Tan

DNA DISTORTION

1. Horton, N.C. & Perona, J.J., Crystallographic snapshots along a protein-induced DNA-bending pathway, Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. (USA) 97, 5729-5734 (2000)

(8) THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 30 -- Shuang Ding

VIRUS STRUCTURE

1. Reinisch, K.M., Nibert, M.L. & Harrison, S.C., Structure of the reovirus core at 3.6 Å resolution, Nature 404, 960-967 (2000).