Journal Club (2014-2015)
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 (spring 2014)
Contents
October 22
Replaced by systemsX.ch conference
November 5
Micha will talk about a recent gwas paper on the "Genetic background of extreme violent behavior" and the implication of this kind of research in court.
http://www.nature.com/mp/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/mp2014130a.html
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/337/6096/846.full.pdf
http://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1504&context=faculty_scholarship
November 13
Zoltan invites J.P Hubaux to talk about genomic privacy.
December 03
Tanguy on the effect of the experimenter sex on animal stress levels, a very common but largely ignored bias in animal experimentation.
http://www.nature.com/nmeth/journal/v11/n6/full/nmeth.2935.html
December 17
Beryl on paleogenetics and the history of alcohol metabolism in primates.
http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2014/11/26/1404167111.abstract
January 7
Micha about the controversial cancer and bad luck paper that just made the buzz on the scientific news.
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/347/6217/78.long
January 21
Reyhan on schizophrenia and the gut microbiome. http://www.nature.com/mp/journal/v19/n12/full/mp201493a.html
February 4
Canceled
February 18
David presents this mid-thesis
March 11
Katarina presentation will be: MRR vaccine and autism: a case of 'junk science' with the following papers:
Plotkin, 2009 Taylor, 2014 Wakefield, 1998
March 25
Rico presents: Geospatial Resolution of Human and Bacterial Diversity with City-Scale Metagenomics Afshinnekoo, 2015
April 15
Tanguy on the genetics of portugese crypto-Jews:
http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fgene.2015.00012/full
April 29
Micha will talk about genomic imprinting and parental conflicts with the following paper: Babak et al., Genetic conflict reflected in tissue-specific maps of genomic imprinting in human and mouse, Nature, 2015.
http://www.nature.com/ng/journal/v47/n5/full/ng.3274.html?WT.ec_id=NG-201505
May 20
Daniel presents the vision of Stephen Friend to revolutionize biomedical research by empowering patients and researchers
June 10
BC2
June 24
Katarina presents her master thesis
