biosights: July 6, 2015 - Interphase centrosomes flare up

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Centrosomes undergo dramatic changes in size and structure during the rapid cell cycles of early Drosophila embryos. Lerit et al. reveal that a scaffold formed by the proteins centrosomin and PLP is required to maintain the activity of interphase centrosomes, which is essential for nuclear spacing and proper chromosome segregation. This biosights episode presents the paper by Lerit et al. from the July 6th, 2015, issue of The Journal of Cell Biology and includes an interview with two of the...

biosights: June 8, 2015 - Melanosomal cargoes BLOC'd off from alternate routes

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The BLOC-2 complex contains three subunits encoded by genes mutated in Hermansky-Pudlak syndrome, a disease caused by defects in the trafficking pathways that form melanosomes and other lysosome-related organelles. Dennis et al. reveal that the BLOC-2 complex promotes the delivery of melanosomal cargo by targeting recycling endosomal tubules to maturing melanosomes. This biosights episode presents the paper by Dennis et al. from the May 25, 2015, issue of The Journal of Cell Biology and...

Jerry Tuskan at the 2015 DOE JGI Genomics of Energy & Environment Meeting

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Jerry Tuskan, Oak Ridge National Laboratory and BioEnergy Science Center (BESC), delivers part of the opening keynote at the 10th Annual Genomics of Energy & Environment Meeting held March 24-26, 2015 in Walnut Creek, Calif.

Shawn Kaeppler at the 2015 DOE JGI Genomics of Energy & Environment Meeting

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Shawn Kaeppler, Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (GLBRC), delivers part of the opening keynote at the 10th Annual Genomics of Energy & Environment Meeting held March 24-26, 2015 in Walnut Creek, Calif.

Rick Cavicchioli at the 2015 DOE JGI Genomics of Energy & Environment Meeting

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Rick Cavicchioli, University of New South Wales, at the 10th Annual Genomics of Energy & Environment Meeting held March 24-26, 2015 in Walnut Creek, Calif.

Susan Lynch at the 2015 DOE JGI Genomics of Energy & Environment Meeting

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Susan Lynch, University of California, San Francisco, at the 10th Annual Genomics of Energy & Environment Meeting held March 24-26, 2015 in Walnut Creek, Calif.