QBIC Journal Club Schedule & Assigned Readings
Sophomores - Fall 2009

revised 23 Nov 2009 - please check for errors.

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Date Class Topic / Activity Read for Today Assignments Due Today
24 Aug
discussion & class planning

 
31 Aug Diagram Sturtevant's brilliant insight Time, Love, Memory
chapts 1,2		 JC Reading Log
7 Sep Labor Day
FIU CLOSED
   
14 Sep Molecular evolution word game Time, Love, Memory
chapts 3,4,5		 JC Reading Log
21 Sep Diagram experiment

Time, Love, Memory
chapts 6,7,8,9,10

 JC Reading Log
28 Sep Construct computer graphic of diagram from last week Time, Love, Memory
chapts 11,12,13		 JC Reading Log
5 Oct Design learning experiment Time, Love, Memory
chapts 14,15,16		 JC Reading Log
12 Oct Genes & human behavior Time, Love, Memory
chapts 17,18,19		 JC Reading Log
19 Oct Choose your gene    
26 Oct Review panels for follow-up experiments.

Original paper on clock & learning mutants. Papers in PNAS are free online.

Read first paper on your chosen Drosophila gene.

Diagram 2 follow-up experiments for your paper.
2 Nov Recent review paper on this gene    
9 Nov clock genes presentation    
16 Nov learning genes presentation    
23 Nov Recent primary literature on clock genes Fuller et al. 2008

1. Write a 2-sentence summary of what the paper means (exactly 2 sentences, not 3).
2. Work to understand every sub-figure in the paper and write a short explanation of what each shows and why it is necessary to the study.
30 Nov Recent primary literature on learning genes

Bourtchouladze et al. (2003)

(a review paper that might help, not assigned)

 1. Write a 2-sentence summary of what the paper means (exactly 2 sentences, not 3).
2. Work to understand every sub-figure in the paper and write a short explanation of what each shows and why it is necessary to the study.
7 Dec