Journal
Club Season Fall 2006
Held Tuesdays at
noon – Pizza is Served
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Date |
Subject |
Presented by |
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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] |
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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 |
Song Yang [slides] |
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Oct 24 |
Ranea JA, Sillero A,
Thornton JM, Protein Superfamily
Evolution and the Last Universal Common Ancestor (LUCA). J Mol Evol. 2006 Oct
4; [PubMed] |
Jenny Gu [Slides] |
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Oct 31 |
Comparative genomics
and structural biology of the molecular [PubMed] |
Ruben Valas [slides] |
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Nov 7 |
A genomic code for nucleosome positioning Segal et al. 2006 Nature
442 772-8 [PubMed] |
Apostol Gramada [slides] |
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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] |
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Nov 21 |
Noonan, et al. Sequencing and Analysis of Neanderthal
Genomic DNA |
Kristine Briedis [Slides] |
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Nov 28 |
Cognate Ligand Domain
Mapping for Enzymes Bashton et al. 2006 JMB 364 836-852 |
Lei Xie [Slides] |
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Dec 5 |
Learning MHC
I-peptide Binding Jojic et al 2006 Bioinformatics 22(14) e227-e235 |
Julia Ponomarenko [slides] |
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Dec 12 |
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JoLan Chung |
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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 |
Ilya Shindyalov |