GEMS laboratories meet about once each month on a Friday afternoon at 3:30 p.m. for research presenatations by graduate students, postdocs and faculty. We usually meet in room 1103 BRB, which is the seminar room in the Bioscience Research Building. Graduate students who present in GEMS can obtain course credit as CBMG699T. Students who are interested in receiving credit for GEMS should contact Steve Mount.

March 9  2242 HJP
Xiao Wang, Culver lab:
"TMV-mediated reprogramming of host basal defense responses"

Qingmei Guan (Jose lab):
"A KH domain containing RNA binding protein is important for gene expression under temperature stress"

April 13  1103 BRB
Pick* and Duttaroy

May 25  1103 BRB
Ganesh* and Mount

June 15  1103 BRB
Hamza* and Haag

July 13  1103 BRB
Wu* and Wang

August 10  1103 BRB
Ullah* and Kwak

(Talks marked with the icon double as ATRIUM talks).
(The presenting lab with an asterisk brings drinks and snacks).

What is GEMS?

GEMS (Genetics with Eukaryotic Model Systems) is a monthly multi-lab meeting physically based at the University of Maryland, College Park and devoted to the use of genetic approaches in Eukaryotic model systems such as Drosophila, C. elegans or Arabidopsis to study problems in development, signal transduction and gene expression. The group includes researchers affiliated with the Departments of Biology, Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics and Entomology in the College of Life Sciences; the Department of Animal and Avian Sciences in the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources; and the Centers for Biosystems Research (CBR) and Advanced Research in Biotechnology (CARB) in the University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute (UMBI)

College of Life Sciences:     Cell Biology & Molecular Genetics    Biology      Entomology          BEES      MOCB       College of Agriculture and Natural Resources    ANSC
CBCB      UMBI:     CBR    CARB          Howard University