Journal Club (Spring 2017)

The aim of this journal club is to foster discussion and exchange around scientific topics that can but are not necessarily directly related to the research done in the lab. Personal interest of the presenter should be the primary criteria for topic selection, which can also include discussion around science and society. Examples of past topics are given in the previous Journal Club (autumn 2015)

The Journal Club is every other Wednesday, from 14-14h50, in the Vulcano room. The schedule is indicated below. If it is your turn, please indicate the paper you are presenting 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.

*Thursday* January 12

Daniel on pathway enrichment

January 31

David talks about what he is doing in the SF Bay area

February 22

Roger on Digital Health: Tracking Physiomes and Activity Using Wearable Biosensors Reveals Useful Health-Related Information

March 1

Micha on Harari's book: Sapiens: A brief history of humanity

March 15

Rico presents a review on PheWAS http://www.nature.com/nrg/journal/v17/n3/abs/nrg.2015.36.html

April 5

Katarina presents: Primate brain size is predicted by diet but not sociality http://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-017-0112

April 12

Mathieu about giant viruses: http://science.sciencemag.org/content/356/6333/82.full

Mai 3

Andreas about the advantage of sex: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v411/n6838/abs/411692a0.html

May 17

Tugce

May 31

Reyhan

June 14

Tanguy

June 28

Mirjam Genetic about risk scores in the prediction of plasma glucose, impaired insulin secretion, insulin resistance and incident type 2 diabetes in the METSIM study https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00125-017-4313-4