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The Journal Club is every other Thursday, from 12-13, in the small meeting room.  Feel free to bring your lunch.
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The Journal Club is every other Thursday, from 12-13, in the small meeting 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 or invite an external speaker.
 
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 or invite an external speaker.
  
 
== January 24 ==
 
== January 24 ==
Barbara
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Barbara will speak about "Google Effects on Memory: Cognitive Consequences of Having Information at Our Fingertips".
Sascha
 
  
The biological impacts of the Fukushima nuclear accident on the pale grass blue butterfly
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http://www.sciencemag.org/content/333/6043/776.abstract
  
[http://www.nature.com/srep/2012/120809/srep00570/full/srep00570.html http://www.nature.com/srep/2012/120809/srep00570/full/srep00570.html]
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== February 7 ==
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Canceled, there is a Seminar from B. Wollnik instead
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== February 21 ==
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Tim on the effect of synonymous snps
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== March 7 ==
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Micha will talk about Hans Jonas's book: The Phenomenon of Life
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==March  21 ==
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Andrea will discuss about a proposal for an Evolutionary Biology Experiment
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== April  4 ==
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Canceled
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== April 17 10 am (instead of April 18) ==
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Guest speaker Eyal Privman:
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Adaptive role of concerted evolution in the ant’s sex determination locus
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==May 2 ==
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Aurélien will talk about species' de-extinction:
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What If Extinction Is Not Forever, Jacob S. Sherkow and Henry T. Greely, Science, 2013
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http://www.sciencemag.org/content/340/6128/32.full.pdf
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==May 8 ==
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Rico will talk about scale-free networks and their risks.
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http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v497/n7447/abs/nature12047.html
  
== February 7 ==
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== May 15 ==
Nadya
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Tim invited Dona from CIG to talk about open access publishing
Micha will present an old but interesting account of the birth and development of academia by the father of sociology.
 
  
Durkheim, ''L'évolution pédagogique en France'', 1938 [http://classiques.uqac.ca/classiques/Durkheim_emile/evolution_ped_france/evolution_ped_france.html full text]
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== May 30 ==
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David on the recent ENCODE bashing:
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http://gbe.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2013/02/20/gbe.evt028.short
  
== Fevruary 21 ==
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== June 13 ==
Tim
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Sina on open data and the Tamiflu case: http://www.bmj.com/tamiflu
Aurélien will present a new controversial idea to mitigate climate change.
 
  
S. Matthew Liaoa, Anders Sandbergb & Rebecca Roacheb, "Human Engineering and Climate Change", Ethics, Policy and the Environment 15 (2) 2012: 206-221  [http://www.smatthewliao.com/2012/02/09/human-engineering-and-climate-change/ article
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== June 27 ==
== February 28 ==
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Micha on evidence for Lamarckian evolution in worms and rats.
Diana
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http://www.cell.com/retrieve/pii/S0092867411013419?script=true
== March 14 ==
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http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v467/n7318/abs/nature09491.html
Antony
 
==March  28 ==
 
Sascha
 
== April  11 ==
 
Micha
 
  
== And then... ==
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== July 11 ==
Aurélien, Rico, David, Zoltan, Tanguy
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Tanguy

Latest revision as of 14:25, 20 August 2013

The Journal Club is every other Thursday, from 12-13, in the small meeting 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 or invite an external speaker.

January 24

Barbara will speak about "Google Effects on Memory: Cognitive Consequences of Having Information at Our Fingertips".

http://www.sciencemag.org/content/333/6043/776.abstract

February 7

Canceled, there is a Seminar from B. Wollnik instead

February 21

Tim on the effect of synonymous snps

March 7

Micha will talk about Hans Jonas's book: The Phenomenon of Life

March 21

Andrea will discuss about a proposal for an Evolutionary Biology Experiment

April 4

Canceled

April 17 10 am (instead of April 18)

Guest speaker Eyal Privman: Adaptive role of concerted evolution in the ant’s sex determination locus

May 2

Aurélien will talk about species' de-extinction: What If Extinction Is Not Forever, Jacob S. Sherkow and Henry T. Greely, Science, 2013 http://www.sciencemag.org/content/340/6128/32.full.pdf

May 8

Rico will talk about scale-free networks and their risks. http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v497/n7447/abs/nature12047.html

May 15

Tim invited Dona from CIG to talk about open access publishing

May 30

David on the recent ENCODE bashing: http://gbe.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2013/02/20/gbe.evt028.short

June 13

Sina on open data and the Tamiflu case: http://www.bmj.com/tamiflu

June 27

Micha on evidence for Lamarckian evolution in worms and rats. http://www.cell.com/retrieve/pii/S0092867411013419?script=true http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v467/n7318/abs/nature09491.html

July 11

Tanguy