Local Interest Groups and Clubs

Students who have joined the MCB, and chosen a lab, often wish to interact with other groups working on similar biological phenomena. The list below is a partial listing of local clubs and groups, and a contact person for each. They have indicated these meetings are open to MCB students who have similar interests.

If a news group that you know of does not appear in the following list, but you would like it to, please e-mail David Raible at draible@u.washington.edu

• Alzheimer's Disease, Katy page or George Martin, 543-5088
• Backbone Club, Richard Palmiter, palmiter@u.washington.edu
• Biology of Aging, Katy Fawthrop or Peter Rabinovitch, 616-4135; Katy Page or George Martin, 543-5088
• Biomechanics Meeting, Gerry Pollack, ghp@u.washington.edu, 685-1880, Wed. noon Harris 322
• Cancer Biology, Marci Wright, mwright@fhcrc.org, 667-4917
• Development Club, Cecilia Moens, cmoems@frcrc.org
• Fish Club, Josh Waxman, Moon Lab, 543-5519, jwaxman@u.washington.edu
• Fly Club, Barbara Wakimoto or Celeste Berg, wakimoto@u.washington.edu & berg@genetics.washington.edu
• Forum on Science Ethics and Policy (FOSEP), www.fosep.org, fosep@u.washington.edu
• Hematopoiesis, Steve Collins, scollins@fhcrc.org
• Interdisciplinary Club, Tom Paulson, tpaulson@fhcrc.org
  http://www.fhcrc.org/science/interdisciplinary/club/index.html
• Malaria and Parasitology, Carol Sibley sibley@gs.washington.edu
• Mitosis Club, Linda Wordeman or Sue Biggins meets first Monday of every month worde@u.washington.edu or sbiggins@fhcrc.org
• Nanotechnology Interest Group, Charles Campbell, campbell@chem.washington.edu

• Neurodegeneration Research Club, meets Thursdays 3-4PM in K-350. Al La Spada, Paul Muchowski, Leo Pallanck
• Orthopeadic Research, David Eyre 543-4700, deyre@u.washington.edu
• Papillomavirus, Marci Wright, mwright@fhcrc.org, 667-4917
• Pathogen Interest Group, Marilyn Parsons, mparsons@u.washington.edu
• Plant MCB, Elizabeth Van Volkenburgh or Keiko Torii, pmcb@u.washington.edu
  http://depts.washington.edu/pmcb/
• Protein Crystallography, Ron Stenkamp, stenkamp@u.washington.edu
• Retrovirus/Virus, Michael Emerman, memerman@fhcrc.org
• Signal Transduction, Jon Cooper, 667-4454, jcooper@fhcrc.org
• Structural Biology, Barry Stoddard, bstoddar@fhcrc.org
• Technology Resource Center for Exploiting the Yeast Genome; Trisha Davis, tdavis@u.washington.edu
• Translational Control, Michael Katze, Dave Morris, or Adam Geballe 732-6135 or 543-1694 http://depts.washington.edu/katzelab/
• Virology, Maxine Linial or Mike Emerman, mlinial@fhcrc.org, memerman@fhcrc.org
• Werner Syndrome, Katy Page or Junko Oshima, 543-5088
• X-ray Diffraction, Wim Hol or Dave Teller, hol@gouda.bmsc.washington.edu, teller@u.washington.edu
• Yeast Group, Linda Breeden, lbreeden@fhcrc.org
  http://www.fhcrc.org/labs/breeden