Fall 2009

Sign up for a journal club by hitting "edit" to the left and adding your name & topic (and names of two discussants if presenting a published article). Please upload your paper if your journal club involves reading an article. To do that, hit "uploads" to the left, find your article on your computer, and upload it. The defaults will automatically add a link to the paper at the bottom of this webpage - just hit "edit" again and cut and paste that link so that it is placed below your name & topic. See the ?help page or check out how it was done in previous semesters if you have questions.

Please read the Journal Club Instructions before signing up.

Write to Matt Keller (matthew.c.keller@gmail.com) to obtain the username & password needed to post on this page (or search through your email; I've emailed it to the IBG list previously).

Aug 28 - NO Journal Club

Psychology Department Party - 4pm

Sep 4 - First Friday Talk

Greg Carey - to be held in the IBG auditorium
"To C or not to C: The environment in behavioral genetics research" (or how to win $5,000 without really trying).
Environment in BG3.pdf

Sep 11 - Journal Club

Daniel Howrigan - Common polygenic variation contributes to risk of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder
ISC_2009.pdf

Further reading:
ISC_supp_2009.pdf (Supplementary material for those interested)
Online blog commentary

Discussants: Matt Simonson and Rohan Palmer

Sep 18 - Journal Club

Melissa Munn-Chernoff
"Interaction between serotonin transporter gene (5-HTTLPR), stressful life events, and risk of depression: a meta-analysis"
Risch et al. (2009) meta-analysis of 5HTTLPR SLE.pdf

Discussants: Laramie Duncan and Joanna Vandever

Sep 25 - NO Journal Club

Conflicting lecture by Rita Colwell, 3-5, CIRES Auditorium
Climate, Oceans, and Infectious Diseases: The Cholera Saga

Oct 2 - First Friday Talk

TBA

Oct 9 - Journal Club

Matt Simonson - The Role of Geography in Human Adaptation
coop2009.pdf
Discussants: Dan Howrigan and Amanda Wills

Oct 16 - Journal Club

Angela Brant- "Gene Ontology Analysis of GWA Study Data Sets Provides Insights into the Biology of Bipolar Disorder"
Holmans_et_al_2009_AJHG.pdf

Discussants: Josh Bricker and Melissa Munn-Chernoff

Oct 23 - Journal Club

Debbie Boeldt
Manolio2009.pdf

Discussants: Ashley Smith and Laura Hink

Oct 30 - Journal Club

Josh Bricker
Ong2009.pdf
GWASofMenarcheSummary.pdf

Discussants: Melissa Munn-Chernoff and Laramie Duncan

Nov 6 - First Friday Talk

Nov 13 - Journal Club

Marissa Ehringer

Nov 20 - Journal Club

A Soma-to-Germline Transformation in Long-lived Caenorhabditis elegans Mutants
Presented by: Alex Mendenhall
Moderator: Tom Johnson
Discussants: Sang-Kyu Park and Larry Taylor
Curran_et_al_2009_nature08106[1].pdf

Nov 27 - NO Journal Club

FALL BREAK

Dec 4 - First Friday Talk

Philipp Kapranov
Principal Genomics Scientist
Helicos BioSciences Corp

Dec 11 -NO Journal Club

Employee appreciation event (aka, Holiday party!)

Curran_et_al_2009_nature08106[1].pdf

Ong2009.pdf
GWASofMenarcheSummary.pdf