Journal Club (spring 2014)
The Journal Club is every other Thursday, from 15-16, in room 219. Feel free to bring your lunch.
The schedule is indicated below. If it is your turn, please indicate the paper you are presenting by Monday and update the calendar accordingly. It can be any paper of scientific interest. Alternatively, you can also give tutorials on any scientific topic that may be of interest to other members of the group, organize a discussion on a scientific topic or invite an external speaker. Examples of past topics are given in the previous Journal Club (spring 2013)
Contents
January 9
David will talk about the nanopore sequencing technology
January 23
Micha has invited Gene Bunin for a discussion about his views on the current state of academia http://crypto.junod.info/2013/09/09/an-aspiring-scientists-frustration-with-modern-day-academia-a-resignation/
February 6
Sina on The benefits of using genetic information to design prevention trials
March 6
Rico on the new servers
March 13
Tanguy on the human population admixture history. http://www.sciencemag.org/content/343/6172/747.full
March 20
canceled
April 10
Aurélien on modeling 3D facial shape from DNA: http://www.plosgenetics.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pgen.1004224#pgen.1004224.s049
April 24
Rico
May 22
Daniel will discuss two joint papers by the FANTOM (functional annotation of the mammalian genome) consortium that were recently published in Nature:
- http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v507/n7493/full/nature13182.html
- http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v507/n7493/full/nature12787.html
May 29
Vacation day
June 12
Cristian on using mass spectrometry in urine samples to reveal dietary exposure. http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/94/4/981.short
June 26
Micha on telomeres, stress and meditation http://www.pnas.org/content/111/12/4519.full.pdf+html http://med.stanford.edu/scopeblog/sdarticle.pdf http://www.pnas.org/content/101/49/17312.full.pdf
July 10
Sina