Journal Club (spring 2012)

Journal Club is every Thursday, from 1-2pm, in the small meeting room. Feel free to bring your lunch. We also have a Group Meeting.

Ideally, someone from the group should volunteer to choose a paper for each meeting, and should update this page and email the paper around on the Friday the week before the meeting. If a volunteer is not forthcoming, Micha will encourage someone to volunteer. Alternatively, people can also give tutorials on any scientific topic that may be of interest to other members of the group. The tutorial marketplace is the place to set and see the supply and demand for tutorials.

5th February 2009

Toby will present: A Shrinkage Approach to Large-Scale Covariance Matrix Estimation and Implications for Functional Genomics, by Juliane Schäfer and Korbinian Strimmer (2005) Statistical Applications in Genetics and Molecular Biology 4:1 Article 32. doi:10.2202/1544-6115.1175 link to paper

12th February 2009

Gábor will present: <biblio>

1. wagner pmid=16087882

</biblio>

[exceptionally at 9:30-10:30]

19th February 2009

Zoltán will present: The Optimal Discovery Procedure: A New Approach to Simultaneous Significance Testing, by John D. Storey (2007) J. R. Statist. Soc. B 69:3 pp.347-­368. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9868.2007.005592.x link to paper

26th February 2009

Bastian will present : A "Silent" Polymorphism in the MDR1 Gene Changes Substrate Specificity,DOI: 10.1126/science.1135308, Science 315, 525 (2007); Chava Kimchi-Sarfaty, et al. link to paper

This meeting is at 9:30 am instead of the usual time.

5th March 2009

Date and time change: Wednesday 3pm-4pm

Karen will present: Multiple Hypothesis Testing in Microarray Experiments by Sandrine Dudoit, Juliet Popper Shaffer and Jennifer C. Boldrick Statistical Science, Vol. 18, No. 1 (Feb., 2003), pp. 71-103. link to paper

12th March 2009

Aitana will present: <biblio>

1. kashtan pmid=17698964

</biblio>

19th March 2009

Time and room change: 2pm-3pm 1st floor conference room

Diana is presenting:

Drug—target network Muhammed A Yıldırım, Kwang-Il Goh, Michael E Cusick, Albert-László Barabási & Marc Vidal

Nature Biotechnology 25, 1119 - 1126 (2007) Published online: 5 October 2007 | doi:10.1038/nbt1338 http://www.nature.com/nbt/journal/v25/n10/abs/nbt1338.html

26th March 2009

Time change: 2pm-3pm

Micha will present the following paper: <biblio>

1. millar pmid=16729048

</biblio> http://www.nature.com/msb/journal/v1/n1/synopsis/msb4100018.html

2nd April 2009

1pm-2pm

Sascha will present :

Molecular Systems Biology 4 Article number: 176

doi:10.1038/msb.2008.14

Theoretical and experimental approaches to understand morphogen gradients

Marta Ibañes1 & Juan Carlos Izpisúa Belmonte

http://www.nature.com/msb/journal/v4/n1/full/msb200814.html

14th May 2009

Armand will present

Accurate whole human genome sequencing using reversible terminator chemistry Nature 456, 53-59 (6 November 2008) | doi:10.1038/nature07517

link to paper

2nd July 2009

Micha will present

9th July 2009

Gabor will present:

Note on the presidential election in Iran, June 2009

http://www-personal.umich.edu/~wmebane/note18jun2009.pdf

16th July 2009

Zoltan will present: Introduction to Measure Theory

13th August 2009

Sven: "Smooth Connection Functions" [1] ... and the most important theorem in Physics (in Sven's view)!

27th August 2009

Karen

Identifying regulatory mechanisms using individual variation reveals key role for chromatin modification. Lee SI, Pe'er D, Dudley AM, Church GM, Koller D. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 Sep 19;103(38):14062-7.

10th September 2009

Diana will give a flavour of the various senses of autonomy and their relevance to clinical practice

17th September 2009

Armand will present Perl5 Best Practice and Perl6 Overview

24th September 2009

Aitana will present: An(other) inconvenient truth... <biblio>

1. kaufman pmid=19729653

</biblio>

October 8th 2009

Micha will present <biblio>

1. kang pmid=18385116

</biblio> with an introduction to restricted (or residual) maximum likelihood estimation (REML) and mixed models.

October 22th 2009

Andreas will present a short introduction to hot research topics and state-of-the-art numerical methods in condensed matter physics:

If you like fancy descriptions, one could say: High-temperature superconductivity, quantum hall physics, ultra-cold atomic gases and quantum computation using exact diagonalization, density-matrix renormalization group calculations and quantum Monte-Carlo simulations. Or in other words, I'll try to explain you why even 20 years after the discovery of "high-temperature" (roughly -200°C) superconductors, no one understands the mechanism behind it and why defense departments sponsor quantum computing centers.

November 12th 2009

Sascha will present an introduction to FEMLAB.

October 29th I'll follow a COMSOL Multiphysics Workshop in Geneva (Introduction and presentation on FEMLAB, a matlab-based interface for the resolution of differential equations using Finite Element Methods (FEM)), and I'll give a short introduction on FEM and FEMLAB during the Journal Club.