[BIC-announce] FW: Killam Lecture - TODAY Wnt and Cell Polarity Signaling Pathways in Growth Cone Guidance

[Jennifer Chew, Ms.]

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REMINDER

 

Killam Lecture

 

Speaker:  Yimin Zou, PhD

Division of Biological Sciences, University of California, San Diego

 

Title:  Wnt and Cell Polarity Signaling Pathways in Growth Cone Guidance

 

Date: TODAY, Tuesday, March 17, 2009

 

Place:  de Grandpré Communications Centre

 

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The Killam lecturer for Tuesday March 17 is Dr.Yimin Zou from the department of Biological Science at the University of California at San Diego. Yimin is well known for his work demonstrating that Wnts, in addition to their action as morphogens, also function as axon guidance cues. His talk is entitled Wnt and Cell Polarity Signaling Pathways in Axon Guidance. 

de Grandpré Communications Centre, MNI.

4 pm Tuesday March 17, 2009.

 

A selection of Yimin's publications are listed below.  

Yimin Zou, Esther Stoeckli, Hang Chen, and Marc Tessier-Lavigne*.  Squeezing axons out of the gray matter: A role for slit and semaphorin proteins from midline and ventral spinal cord.  Cell. 2000. 102, 363-375.

 

Elke Stein, Yimin Zou, Mu-ming Poo, and Marc Tessier-Lavigne*. Binding of DCC by Netrin-1to mediate axon guidance independent of adenosine A2B receptor activation.  Science. 2001. 291, 1976-1982.

 

Anna I. Lyuksyutova, Chin-Chun Lu, Nancy Milanesio, Leslie A. King, Nini Guo, Yanshu Wang, Jeremy Nathans, Marc Tessier-Lavigne and Yimin Zou*. Anterior-posterior guidance of commissural axons by Wnt-Frizzled signaling. Science. 2003. 302, 1984-1988.

 

Yaobo Liu, Jun Shi, Chin-Chun Lu, Zheng-Bei Wang, Xuejun Song and Yimin Zou*.  Anterior-posterior guidance of corticospinal tract axons by conserved repulsive Wnt-Ryk interaction. Nature Neuroscience. 2005. 8(9):1151-9. 

 

Adam Schmitt, Jun Shi, Alex Wolf, Chin-Chun Lu, Leslie A. King and Yimin Zou*.  Wnt-Ryk signaling mediates medial-lateral retinotectal topographic mapping.  Nature.  2006. 439(7072):31-7. 

 

Alex M. Wolf , Anna I. Lyuksyutova, Ali G. Fenstermaker, Beth Shafer, Charles G. Lo and Yimin Zou*.  PI3K-atypical PKC signaling is required for Wnt attraction and anterior-posterior axon guidance.  Journal of Neuroscience. 2008. 28(13):3456-3467.

 

Yaobo Liu, Xiaofei Wang, Chin-Chun Lu, Rachel Kermen, Oswald Steward*, Xiao-Ming Xu* and Yimin Zou*. Repulsive Wnt signaling inhibits axon regeneration following central nervous system injury.  Journal of Neuroscience. 2008. 28(33):8376-8382.

 

Elizabeth K. Davis, Yimin Zou and Anirvan Ghosh*. Wnts acting through canonical and non-canonical pathways exert opposite effects on hippocampal synapse formation. Neural Development. November 5, 2008. 3:32. Doi:10.1186/1749-8104-3-32.