[BIC-announce] FW: Killam Lecture - Tuesday, September 26, 2006 @ 4:00 pm Transcription factors six and eya activate the fast-glycolytic gene expression profile i skeletal muscle fibres

[Jennifer Chew, Ms.]

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Subject: Killam Lecture - Tuesday, September 26, 2006 @ 4:00 pm



KILLAM LECTURE

Speaker:   Pascal Maire, Ph.D.
                 Genetics and Development of the Neuromuscular System
                 Institut Cochin INSERM, France
 
Title:        Transcription Factors Six and Eya Activate the Fast-glycolytic Gene Expression Profile in Skeletal Muscle Fibres
 
Place:      de Grandpre Communications Centre
 
Date:        Tuesday, September 26, 2006
 
Time:        4:00 pm
  
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Dear Colleagues,

Our September 26 MNI/Killam speaker is Pascal Maire of the Département Génétique, Développement et Pathologie Moléculaire, Institut Cochin, Université de Paris V, France. Pascal is a real leader in the study of gene expression in developing and adult mammalian skeletal muscle. He established this reputation with an in-depth and pioneering analysis of the cis-elements and trans-factors involved in controlling the fiber-type-specific expression of the aldolase A gene. This work has been a criticial step forward for the field of muscle gene regulation because it represents the first (and only) molecular genetic mechanism known to control fast fiber-type specificity. Pascal discovered that the key players are the homeobox transcription factor Six and its co-factor Eya and his work has revealed a broad relevance for these factors in muscle, and in other tissues. In his talk he will be focusing on the mechanism of fast fiber type specific gene expression and I think all of you who are interested in how the organism generates diverse forms of the "same" cell type (muscle fibers, or neurons, or glia) will find it very interesting. 

See you there.

Ken Hastings
Montreal Neurological Institute
McGill University