Presentation topics

Possible papers for your presentation projects

Teams of three individuals will work together to present information from one of these scientific papers (or another paper to be approved by Dr. Franks).

 

twist and partners in human disease

 

famine and epigenetics

or a more recent treatment of the subject

DNA methylation signatures link prenatal famine exposure to growth and metabolism   https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4246417/

 

 

ipstherapy review – But this is a review paper and an original paper would work better for presentation.

 

Darwin and Finch Beaks update

 

alzheimers and stem cells

 

Developmental timing differences underlie armor loss across threespine stickleback populations

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29115024

 

Localisation of RNAs into the Germ Plasm of Vitellogenic Xenopus Oocytes

http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0061847

 

Light-focusing human micro-lenses generated from pluripotent stem cells model lens development and drug-induced cataract in vitro

http://dev.biologists.org/content/145/1/dev155838?etoc

 

Enhancer adoption caused by genomic insertion elicits interdigital Shh expression and syndactyly in mouse

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29255029

 

A facilitated diffusion mechanism establishes the Drosophila Dorsal gradient.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29097443

 

Gene editing on human embryos – find the original paper to present

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/02/science/gene-editing-human-embryos.html