Cell Biology Seminars

Catalog description

Training in current topics relevant to Genome Integrity will be provided by a weekly journal club in conjunction with the New York Academy of Sciences Genome Integrity Discussion Group (NYAS GIDG). The topics for the Journal Club papers will be coordinated with the NYAS GIDG meeting talks. The NYAS convenes various meetings, seminars, and interdisciplinary conferences annually in New York City. The Sackler Institute provides annual NYAS memberships to all Sackler Graduate Students. The GIDG at the NYAS has been in place since 2002. It meets 5 times a year with 4 talks by invited faculty from the greater New York area (Oct, Dec, Feb, and April meetings) and a keynote address by a leader in the field (June meeting). Many faculty, students, and postdocs from NYU and the greater New York area regularly attend these meetings. The NYAS GIDG covers a broad range of topics including the DNA damage response, DNA replication, transcription, chromatin modification, recombination, cell cycle control, telomeres, chromosome segregation, epigenetic states, as well as the emergence of new technologies relevant to research in genome integrity. Prior to each meeting students will be assigned four papers (one for each talk) and then will meet with a participating genome integrity training grant (TG) faculty member each week for the four weeks prior to the meeting to discuss the papers in a journal club format. Eight TG faculty will participate each year hosting one Journal Club during the Fall and one during the Spring semester. Attendance at the NYAS GIDG meetings will then reinforce and enrich student understanding of the Journal Club topics.