Suggested topics for the weekly journal club
Focus topics
For 2006-2007, we have decided to introduce focus topics, each of which will be covered by several talks. Each focus topic will be organized by one or more organizers, and each talk can be given by one or more people.
Current focus topic (from May 2007): New omic experimental technologies (Benno: What are new the omics technologies developed in the, say, last 2-3 years? What kinds * of biological/computational questions can they help to answer? I think this is an important topic for us to be posted on.)
Suggestions for further focus topics
Please feel free to add and comment.
Methods for the identification of proteins by ms (Pascal: I suggest 2 or 3 sessions so that the available knowledge is well shared between the members of the lab.)
Regulation of the cell cycle (Melissa Cline)
Immune systems biology (Andrea: There are several areas in which research in immunology meets a systems approach, I will list here some of them. I think the focus of this topic should be to provide an overview of the interface between "systems biology" and immunology). - Genomic based vaccine design. Basically identification of epitopes from genomes of bacteria. - Information resources (that is databases, but which data is relevant for immunology ?) - Modeling and simulation (in the case of the immune system, this is often not at the molecular level) - Host-parasite interaction
Some example of papers and resources is provided in SomePapersAndLinksOnImmunomics
Previous focus topics
Module finding (December 2006 - May 2007) Tero: Towards integrating interaction networks with other data sources, like gene expression microarray and other high-throughput data. Different approaches to identification of experiment-specific modules will be discussed.)
Metabolic network modeling and applications (September - November 2006)