Journal Club Season Fall 2006

 Held Tuesdays at noon  – Pizza is Served

 

Date

Subject

Presented by

Oct 3

Thomas Cavalier-Smith Cell evolution and Earth history: stasis and revolution. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences Volume 361, Number 1470 / June 29, 2006 969 - 1006

[medline] {Only select pieces of this large work will be discussed}

Phil Bourne

[slides]

Oct 10

Olga Zhaxybayeva, J. Peter Gogarten, Robert L. Charlebois, W. Ford Doolittle, and R. Thane Papke

Phylogenetic analyses of cyanobacterial genomes: Quantification of horizontal gene transfer events
Genome
Res. 2006 16: 1099-1108 http://www.genome.org/cgi/content/full/16/9/1091

Song Yang

[slides]

Oct 24

Ranea JA, Sillero A, Thornton JM, Orengo CA.

Protein Superfamily Evolution and the Last Universal Common Ancestor (LUCA).

J Mol Evol. 2006 Oct 4;

[PubMed]

Jenny Gu

[Slides]

Oct 31

Comparative genomics and structural biology of the molecular
innovations of eukaryotes

[PubMed]

Ruben Valas

[slides]

Nov 7

A genomic code for nucleosome positioning Segal et al. 2006 Nature 442 772-8 [PubMed]

Apostol Gramada

[slides]

Nov 14

Origins and impact of constraints in evolution of gene families Shakhnovich BE and Koonin EV 2006 Genome Research Oct 19 epub [PubMed]

Stella Veretnik

[slides]

Nov 21

Noonan, et al. Sequencing and Analysis of Neanderthal Genomic DNA
Green, et al. Analysis of one million base pairs of Neanderthal DNA

Kristine Briedis

[Slides]

Nov 28

Cognate Ligand Domain Mapping for Enzymes Bashton et al. 2006 JMB 364 836-852

Lei Xie

[Slides]

Dec 5

Learning MHC I-peptide Binding Jojic et al 2006 Bioinformatics 22(14) e227-e235

Julia Ponomarenko

[slides]

Dec 12

 

JoLan Chung

Dec 19

Comprehensive Evaluation of Protein Structure Alignment Methods: Scoring by Geometric Measures

Journal of Molecular Biology, Volume 346, Issue 4, 4 March 2005, Pages 1173-1188
Rachel Kolodny, Patrice Koehl and Michael Levitt

 

Ilya Shindyalov


 

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