Leung Lab Blog

Please share/finalize your ideas for

1. party location
2. gift exchange
3. lab present

We will all read two short articles about Cystic Fibrosis:

• Couzin-Frankel J. The promise of a cure: 20 years and counting. Science. 2009 Jun 19;324(5934):1504-7.
• Pearson H. One gene, twenty years. Nature. 2009 Jul 9;460(7252):164-9.

Each one of us will then pick one of the following topics, elaborate the discussion by reading an additional latest reference of your choice and present the major ideas in the lab meeting.  (Liyun, as a physician for years, should pick up a more research-based topic).

The format will be a 10-min presentation followed by 5-min discussion. If you are discussing a research paper, the breakdown should be as follows: 5-min for background+experimental design, 5-min for 1-2 major findings. For a review paper, the breakdown should be approximately 3 mins for each major idea. The presentation should have no more than 4 slides, preferably 3, you can also use the board. We will also bring a timer.

I suggest the following six topics:

1. Pathophysiology
2. Etiology and epidemiology
3. General therapeutic approaches excluding gene therapy
4. Functional characterization of CFTR
5. Animal models, challenges and prospects
6. Gene therapy, challenges and prospects

Please reply and this thread to select your topic, and upload both your presentation and the reference article to the appropriate lab meeting folder.  I look forward to discussing these ideas with you!

Please make a recommendation for a funny paper for our lab meeting on 2009-7-28. Please have you recommendation submitted by 2009-7-23 and we will vote on 2009-7-24. NO eye papers please! Be as creative as you can!!

Please make a recommendation for a serious scientific paper for our lab meeting on 2009-7-21. Please make all recommendations by 2009-7-16 and we will vote on which paper to read on 2009-7-17. Get real creative!!!!

I have requested our library to buy this new book, which contains a lot of useful information (Link to Amazon. Table of contents is available here). This includes several chapters on making transgenic fish (ask me if you need more information) and advanced imaging techniques.

Please suggest your favorite paper asap by making a comment here. Once everyone has made a suggestion, we will vote for it. Let’s decide by Thursday.

Thanks!

I am proposing an outing later in the summer, and we may ask the 2nd floor people to join in. In fact I have talked to some people about this idea. We can also come to my place for movies from time to time.

Feel free to write your suggestions here.

I have been thinking that air hockey or table tennis would be fun. I would love to have a Wii around, but we don’t have a convenient projector system in the common room… I believe Liyun’s office would be a great location to put in the new installment.

Please reply to this post and suggest the name that you think would be appropriate for the blog.

I thought of … WonderBlog… but it has been used as the names for several blogs already…