Journal Club (spring 2016)

The Journal Club is every other Wednesday, from 14-14h50, 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 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 (autumn 2015)

January 27

Micha on germline mutations, with the following papers.

http://www.nature.com/ng/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/ng.3469.html

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016895251300070X

February 10

Tanguy on Lamarckian inheritance: "Sperm tsRNAs contribute to intergenerational inheritance of an acquired metabolic disorder" Science 22 Jan 2016: Vol. 351, Issue 6271, pp. 397-400

February 24

Beryl on the effect of sleep duration http://www.nature.com/articles/srep21480

April 27

Katarina on how oxydation biases sequencing technology. https://nar.oxfordjournals.org/content/41/6/e67.full

May 11

Rico on the Global health 2035 report from the lancet Commissions: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140673613621054

May 25

Roger on Varhorst et al (2014) , "A metabolomic profile is associated with the risk of incident coronary heart disease", American Heart Journal.

June 15

Sarvenaz

June 30

Micha on the crispr-cas9 revolution