Journal Club (autumn 2015)

The Journal Club is every other Wednesday, from 14-14h50, in room 219, unless specified otherwise

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. Examples of past topics are given in the previous Journal Club (2014-2015)

September 16

Micha will talk about evolvability and robustness in the vision described in Andreas Wagner's latest book, 'The Arrival of the Fittest'.

September 30

Reyhan will talk about sexism in the context of evolutionary theory: Insights into Sexism: Male Status and Performance Moderates Female-Directed Hostile and Amicable Behaviour. http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0131613

October 21

David on pioneering transcription factors: http://www.nature.com/nbt/journal/v32/n2/full/nbt.2798.html

November 4

Rico on bipolar disorders and leadership: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24963750

November 18

Daniel

December 2

Roger

December 16

Sarvenaz on big data analysis in genomics. You can read more about it here: http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2013/EECS-2013-207.pdf

and then

Tanguy