MCB Journal Club

All Journal Club meetings are held on Fridays from 12:00 - 1:00 PM in Room 1019B Ag & Life Sciences Building (unless otherwise noted).

Contact Kirstin Carroll about scheduling a presentation.

When choosing an article for JC, be sure to visit the ISI Web of Knowledge webpage. Use the Journal Citation Reports link to examine the Impact Factor of individual journals and the Web of Science - Cited Ref Search link to explore the citations to a particular person's work. The Web of Science - Cited Ref Search can also help you evaluate the scientific impact of a particular article. For example, within 5-10 years after publication, any paper that has been cited more than 100 times has made a significant impact, papers cited more than 250 times were really good, while papers cited more than 500 times have made an exceptional impact.

Fall Quarter 2007

Week Date Speaker
Week 1 Sept 28th Eric Kratzer
CGRB Seminar Oct 3rd

Curtis Suttle

"Viruses: The Largest Reservoir of Genetic Diversity in the Sea"

Week 2 Oct 5th Kyle Pomraning

"Biomass Recalcitrance: Engineering Plants and Enzymes for Biofuels Production"
Michael E. Himmel, et al.
Science 315, 804 (2007)

"Challenges in Engineering Microbes for Biofuels Production"
Gregory Stephanopoulos, et al.
Science 315, 801 (2007);

Week 3 Oct 12th Joe Whalen
CGRB Seminar Oct 17th

Sally Otto

"Why Have Sex? The Population Genetics of Sex and Recombination "

Week 4 Oct 19th Galen Miller
Week 5 Oct 26th Kyle Pomraning
CGRB Seminar Oct 31st

Mark Farman

"Mechanisms of Telomere Instability in the Rice Blast Fungus Magnaporthe oryzae"

Week 6 Nov 2nd Indu Peruri
CGRB Seminar Nov 7th

Deborah Bell-Pedersen

"How Fungi Tell Time "

CGRB Seminar Nov 14th

Federica Brandizzi

"Protein Export from the Plant Endoplasmic Reticulum "

Week 7 Nov 9th La Ananthan
Week 8 Nov 16th Kuo-Fu Tseng
Week 9 Nov 23rd THANKSGIVING - NO JC
Week 10 Nov 30th Shachi Bhatt
FINALS Dec 7th FINALS WEEK - NO JC