BME280b Spring 2006 Schedule

Below is the current schedule of speakers for the BME280b spring student seminar series. Presentations are either research talks in which students present their own research or "Journal Trials" in which a paper is critiqued and defended.

Research talks are 25 minutes long with 5 minutes reserved for questions. Please try to adhere to these time blocks. This length of time is fairly typical for conference talks. Presenters please send your title and abstract to Josh by the Tuesday before your seminar.

Journal Trials are 30 minutes long with 10 minutes of introduction by the judge and 20 minutes of arguments presented by a team that presents the strengths of the paper (the "Pro Team") and a team that presents the weaknesses of the paper (the "Con Team"). Pro Team members try to convince a jury about tof two claims of strength that give evidence that the results of the paper contribute a significant scientific advance. The Con Team presents two claims of weakness that casts significant doubt on the credibility of the paper. Before the trial, both teams should send their claims or flaws to the other by the Tuesday before the journal club trial. At the day of the trial, each team will have time to present their own claims and argue against the claims of the other team. The judge and jury will decide if the paper is acceptable or not acceptable and vote on the merit of each team's arguments. Below is a list of responsibilities for each of the different people participating in the trial:

Judges:Please send your articles to Josh one week before the Thursday in which you present.

Pro Team: Send 2 claims to Josh, the members of the Con Team, and the judge by Tuesday before day of the trial.

Con Team: Send 2 flaws to Josh, the members of the Pro Team, and the judge by Tuesday before day of the trial.

Jurors: You are now encouraged to read the paper before the day of the trial.

Upcoming Presentations

Date	12-12:30	12:30-1
May 25	David Ng (research talk) [PDF] [PPT]	Pinal Kanabar (?) [PDF] [PPT]
Jun 1	Greg Dougherty (?) [PDF] [PPT]	Miriam Bellows (?) [PDF] [PPT]
Jun 8	Bernard Suh (research talk) [PDF] [PPT]	Chris Wong (?) [PDF] [PPT]

Past Presentations

Date	12-12:30	12:30-1
May 18	Courtney Onodera (research talk) [PDF] [PPT]	Sol Katzman (research talk) [PDF] [PPT]
May 11	James Ireland (journal club) [PDF] [PPT]	Grant Thiltgen (research talk) [PDF] [PPT]
May 4	David Bernick (research talk) [PDF] [PPT]	Firas Katib (journal trial) "Linked and Threaded Loops in Proteins" by M L Connolly and G M Crippen. [PUBMED] Hardcopies available in Baskin 316. Pro Team : Grant Thiltgen and Brian Raney Con Team : Miriam Bellows and Robert Baertsch
Apr 27	Patricia Chan (research talk) "Are these archaeal genes co-transcribed?" [PDF] [PPT]	Robert Baertsch (research talk) "Retrotransposition shuffles exons and creates retrogenes leading to primate specific gene evolution." [PDF] [PPT]
Apr 20	Martina Koeva (research talk) [PDF] [PPT]	Charlie Vaske (journal trial) "Non-transcriptional pathway features reconstructed from secondary effects of RNA interference" by Markowetz, Bloch, and Spang [pdf] Claimants: Mark M, James I Disclaimants: Marcos W, Chris W
Apr 13	Firas Katib (research talk) "Rapid knot detection and application to protein structure prediction" [PDF] [PPT]	Matt Weirauch (research talk) "A synthetic-lethal map of C. elegans signaling" prediction [PDF] [PPT]