Spring 2008
Below are journal clubs from Spring 2008:Jan 25, 4-5: Journal Club
Matthew Keller - Discussion of Lencz' paper on schizophrenia and runs of homozygosityLencz_SZ.Homz_2007.pdf
Feb 1, TBA: First Friday Seminar
Feb 8, 4-5: Journal Club
Al Collins - Mzungu Walimu (Swahili for "white teacher").Feb 15, 4-5: Journal Club
Nicole Hoft - Copy number variation in C57 mice.Egan2007NatGen_Mouse.pdf
Feb 22, 4-5: Journal Club
Gary Stetler-Transgenerational Imprinting by Environmental CompoundsPesticide_transgenerational.pdf
Feb 29, 4-5: Journal Club
Angela Friend - Discussion of Bishop and Guarente's Genetic links between diet and lifespanBishop, Guarente 2007 (diet and lifespan).pdf
Mar 7, TBA: First Friday Seminar
Mar 14, 4-5: Journal Club
Sarah Medland (visiting scholar from VIPBG) - The Cascade Model, a new model for extended twin family datato be held in IBG 120
Mar 21, 4-5: Journal Club
NO JOURNAL CLUB (GOOD FRIDAY) —Mar 28, 4-5: SPRING BREAK
NO JOURNAL CLUB —Apr 4, Journal Club (First Friday Seminar held April 11 this month)
Matt McQueen - ENCODE part deux: The ENCODE project provides a daunting account of the complexity of the human genome. Rather than considering this a rerun (Marissa Ehringer presented this paper in the fall of 2007), think of this as part II - updated with insights from recent studies. The paper is an Open Access article and can be found here.Apr 11, 4-5: First Friday Seminar
Apr 18, 4-5: Journal Club
Cinnamon Bidwell - Discussion of Bruder et al.'s paper on copy-number-variation profiles in MZ twin pairsBruder_cnv.pdf
Apr 25, 4-5: Journal Club
Jesse Hawke - A study of how socioeconomic status moderates the relationship between SNPs encompassing BDNF and ADHD symptom counts in ADHD familiesADHD_BDNF_SES.pdf
May 2, TBA: First Friday Seminar
Isabel R. Schlaepfer - Genes and common pathways underlying drug addictionwei2008_PLoS.pdf