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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!

This entry was posted by Yuk Fai Leung on May 26, 2009 at 2:09 PM under lab discussion. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site. Follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.

6 Comments

  1. Monica Hensley says:

    I have 2 recommendations:

    1.) “A functional interaction between Irx and Meis patterns the anterior hindbrain and activates krox20 expression in rhombomere 3″ I think this paper goes well with some of the things we have been talking about with Yuqing’s research. It could help us answer some of the questions dealing with the role of irx7 in the brain.

    2.) “Retinal Neurogenesis and Ontogenetic Changes in the
    Visual System of the Brown Banded Bamboo Shark,
    Chiloscyllium punctatum (Hemiscyllidae, Elasmobranchii)”. This article is still dealing with eye development but in sharks. Surprise, I pick a shark article!!!

    May 28, 2009, 8:20 AM

  2. Liyun Zhang says:

    I think this paper is interesting.

    Wang Z, et al “RNA-Seq: a revolutionary tool for transcriptomics” Nature reviews 2009;10:57-63.

    I got this paper from Fai and read it. Then I think it is a good paper to get an overview about transcriptome and RNA sequencing, which are related to our gene expression profiling project. They reviewed some basic concepts of transcriptomics, compared the different techniques of RNA sequencing, especially introduced the advantages and disadvantages of a new technique – high throughput sequencing. The paper is not very long, but is useful to let us glance at this field.

    May 28, 2009, 4:57 PM

  3. Yuqing Zhang says:

    Robu Mara E et al. p53 Activation by Knockdown Technologies. PLoS Genetics, 2007,3: 0787-0810.

    This is a long paper talking about the off-target effect of knockdown technology.

    It is worthwhile to read it since we will do lots of gene knockdown analysis.

    May 29, 2009, 1:21 AM

  4. Monica Hensley says:

    !!!!!!!!SHARK PAPER WINS BY A LAND SLIDE 3:1!!!!!!!!

    “Retinal Neurogenesis and Ontogenetic Changes in the
    Visual System of the Brown Banded Bamboo Shark,
    Chiloscyllium punctatum (Hemiscyllidae, Elasmobranchii)”

    This paper can be found in The Journal of Comparative Neurobiology 513:83-97 (2009).

    Hope everybody enjoys it!!!
    Monica~

    May 29, 2009, 1:32 PM

  5. Yuk Fai Leung says:

    I am wondering if someone lobbied for that…. :)

    May 29, 2009, 2:20 PM

  6. Yuk Fai Leung says:

    I have glanced through the paper quickly. We will only have 1 session for it, so there are many things that we won’t be able to go into details. I have a few suggestions for focusing our discussion.

    1. What are the authors trying to study?
    2. What are the materials and methods?
    3. What have they found and the claim they draw from that?
    4. Do you think the results justify the conclusions?
    5. What are the broader impacts of the findings?

    I hope we will spend reasonable amount of time on all these.

    May 29, 2009, 5:24 PM

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