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Archive for the ‘Journal Club’ Category

Friday Gumbo Journal Club: hESC line differences and a killer MSC review

Posted by attilachordash on March 29, 2008

It’s Friday, that is a lunch heaven for a Gumbo loving biogeek at Tulane:

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Stem Cell Express: Copy Number Variant Analysis of Human Embryonic Stem Cells from the Teitell Lab (It’s good to see that CIRM funded results and papers are coming out): Read the rest of this entry »

Posted in Journal Club, New Orleans, Tulane, USA, biology, cell biology, regenerative medicine, science, stem cells | Leave a Comment »

The role of Journal Club in lab life and how to move the genre to the web

Posted by attilachordash on August 22, 2007

JCRegular (daily, weekly) Journal Clubs are crucially important events in the life of labs. Reviewing other labs’ results is a way to get synchronized with all the data accumulated by a particular subdiscipline. Moreover it is the most obvious everyday form (conferences are not that frequent) of secondary peer review of the given paper, when experts in one lab heavily criticize the story, methods, data and assumptions of experts in the other competitor lab. There is an education component: as the Wikipedia article says Journal Clubs help make the student become more familiar with the advanced literature and help improve the students’ skills of understanding and debating current topics of active interest in their field.
On the philosophical-psychological level a Regular Journal Club continuously confirm the identity and unity of the lab and the functional team behind it.

Now the question is how to move the Journal Club format to the web without losing its merits and retaining its role in a lab’s life?

Short answer: Read the rest of this entry »

Posted in Journal Club, peer-review, presentation, science, technology | 6 Comments »