Journal Club Oct 10/11 & Oct 22/23


Journal club presentations will presented by groups of two students. Each pair should pick and read a paper from this list and give a 15 minute presentation on the paper in class. Your main goal is to explain the important parts of the paper to your audience.
In the presentation the following points should be covered:

  1. A short summary of background information on the topic.
  2. The major question the paper is addressing.
  3. A summary of the major experiments and results (explain the relevant techniques).
  4. A short summary of the major conclusions drawn.


You should make your presentation understandable to your audience, who have not read the paper. You don't have to explain every little detail of the paper (that would take longer than 15 minutes!), but you should cover all important points. Make everything as clear as possible. Overheads should be used.



You may choose one of the following papers to present:

List of Journal Club papers:

Link to PubMed (A search site for Scientific Journal Articles)

PubMed Guide

Week 7 :

Lénárt P, Bacher CP, Daigle N, Hand AR, Eils R, Terasaki M, Ellenberg J. (2005) A contractile nuclear actin network drives chromosome congression in oocytes. Nature 436:812-818.

Clark EA, Golub TR, Lander ES, Hynes R   Genomic analysis of metastasis reveals an essential role for RhoC. Nature 406:532-535.

Erratum in: Nature 2001 Jun 21;411(6840):974. Comment in: Nature. 2000 Aug 3;406(6795):466-7.

 


Week 9:

Lambert JD, Nagy LM. (2002) Asymmetric inheritance of centrosomally localized mRNAs during embryonic cleavages. Nature 420:682-686.

 

Kittler R, Putz G, Pelletier L, Poser I, Heninger AK, Drechsel D, Fischer S, Konstantinova I, Habermann B, Grabner H, Yaspo ML, Himmelbauer H, Korn B, Neugebauer K, Pisabarro MT, Buchholz F. (2004) An endoribonuclease-prepared siRNA screen in human cells identifies genes essential for cell division. Nature 432:1036-1040.

 


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