To:        MikeHayes (mmhayes@umich.edu), Yingwei Mao (yingweim@umich.edu), Alice Lam(adlam@umich.edu), Cindy Rohde (starts 8/13/02), Anura Hewagama(anurah@bioinformatics.med.umich.edu)

From:   AngelLee (awmlee@umich.edu)

Re:        Labmeeting for the summer

Date:    May25, 2002

 

Hello-

 

Here is the summer Lab meeting schedule.  Starting the week of June 3rd, it will be everyWednesday, 8:30am to 10 am in the Pharmacology Library on the second floor ofMSRB 3 (right next to Rick Neubig’s lab).

Data sessions will alternate with journal club.

Data Sessions:

For the most part, there will be two presenters for every datasession.  Each presenter shouldplan on a 30 min presentation with 15 min for discussion.  Until everyone had a chance to presentto the group, please include a 10-15 minute introduction to yourpresentation.  This introductionshould introduce the research project:

(1)    whatis the goal?

(2)   What is thebackground evidence that supports the research project (either data from ourlab or from the literature).

Progress report:

(1)    Whathas been accomplished to date by you.

(2)   What aresome of the problems encountered.

Journal club:

Journal club presentations - email the pdf of the paper to everyone inthe group by the preceding Friday. Papers that are appropriate for discussion-topics relevant to your project which you think the group will benefitfrom.  Please pick papers publishedwithin the past 1-2 years.

Journal club format:

(1) introduction to the topic- background, evidence leading to theproposed studies

(2) discussion of key experiments - make sure you know how theexperiment was performed and how you would interpret the results

(3) significance of the findings and how you would do differently.

 

Date

Type of meeting

Presenter

June 5

Data

Mike/Jason

June 12

Journal Club

Jason

June 19

Data

Yingwei (you can present your thesis work)

June 26

Journal Club

Angel

July 3

Data

Angel

July 10

Journal Club

Yingwei

July 17

Data

Alice/Anura

July 24

Journal Club

Alice

July 31

Data

Mike/Yingwei

August 7

No meeting

No meeting

August 14

Data

Alice/Anura

August 21

Meeting presentation

Angel

New lab meeting schedule to start when school starts.