Journal Clubs & Interest Groups

Center for Complex Biological Systems (UC Irvine)

Modeling Interest Group (MIG)
To promote collaboration, CCBS has organized an Interest Group in Modeling Biological Systems to bring together people from different disciplines who share the common goal of developing a more in-depth understanding of biological systems from molecules to cells to organisms. The meetings will consist of informal/formal seminars, tutorials, workshops, demonstrations, research-in-progress, and brainstorming. The typical meeting will last 1 to 1½ hours, and the group will meet once or twice a month.

Systems Biology Journal Club
The aim of this group is to bring together graduate students from diverse backgrounds to discuss issues facing the emerging field of Systems Biology and analyze interdisplinary journal articles that embody System Biology principles. This journal club is sponsored by the Center for Complex Biological Systems (CCBS), Mathematical, Computational and Systems Biology (MCSB), and The Department of Developmental of Cell Biology.

Advanced Correlation Techniques Group
Designed for users now interested in image correlation techniques. Among these is the pair correlation, RICS, STICS, derivative analysis and FCS techniques. We wanted to reach out to the UCI community, in particular to those who are beginning or are now trying this technique for their own research. Monthly meetings planned on various topics.

Center for Genome Dynamics (The Jackson Laboratory)

Journal Club
The Journal Club meets every other Tuesday from 2pm – 3pm at The Jackson Laboratory.

Biweekly Meeting
Center researchers meet every other Tuesday from 2pm – 3pm at The Jackson Laboratory.

Center for Systems Biology (Institute for Systems Biology)

To facilitate open communication among biologists, chemists, computer scientists, engineers, mathematicians, physicians and physicists, the Center has funded five years of education and training: courses, seminars, panel discussions, discussion forums, on-line discussion forums, research seminars, and invited speakers. Research seminars and the systems biology discussion group occur on a weekly basis. Topics addressed in the discussion group span a wide range: research-in-progress, ‘journal clubs’, enabling new technologies, grant proposal ideas, career autobiographies, and open-ended discussions on issues such as research integrity, women in science, and the ethics of genetic testing and P4 medicine.

As driven by needs or challenges of the research, working groups have formed (and remain) around the following themes: computation, microfluidics and imaging, sequencing and informatics, and high performance computing. In addition Faculty meet weekly, have weekly lab group meetings, and, since 2009, hold weekly “open” (to the ISB community) lab meetings to facilitate collaborations across groups.

Chicago Center for Systems Biology

CCSB Group Meeting
CCSB Leadership Meeting

Duke Center for Systems Biology

Weekly Lunches
Postdocs and graduate students affiliated with the DCSB attend a weekly lunch to discuss current research, share knowledge about biological systems and quantitative methods, and get to know each other better. Food is provided by the DCSB. Several faculty members are present to provide useful perspectives, but not to enforce any rules. The format varies; there may be an informal presentation of research results or a topic relevant to an upcoming visitor’s talk, a brief introduction of a topic for general discussion, or separate parallel discussions of topics ranging from collaborative projects to politics, job searches, weekend adventures, etc. These lunches promote a sense of shared interest and enthusiasm for the work of DCSB project participants from all subfields.

New Mexico Spatiotemporal Modeling Center

STAT Journal Club
The STMC cell biologists sponsor a weekly journal club focused on Signal Transduction, Adhesion and Trafficking (STAT). Led by Department of Pathology Research Faculty and STMC members, Amanda Carroll-Portillo and Heather Ward, STAT brings together graduate students from diverse backgrounds to discuss papers from the current literature with potential to bring a Systems Biology perspective to their own research projects. STAT is required for all STMC graduate students and is open to other graduate students in the Schools of Medicine and Engineering and College of Arts and Sciences. Visit the STAT Journal Club page.

Center all-members and Leadership Meetings
The STMC also sponsors biweekly meetings on Friday afternoons, from 1-4 pm. These meetings alternate between Administrative (Leadership only) and Scientific (All Members) topics. Agendas are posted on the Visit the STMC Meetings page.

Data Analysis and Modeling Software Interest Group (DAMSIG)
The current task for the group is to create stochastic simulation software that can simultaneously model the static and dynamic data generated by the Center. Here the static data is TEM images of of 5nm gold particles attached to the FceRI-IgE complex. The dynamic data are single particle tracking images of quantum dots attached to the beta subunit of the FceRI-IgE complex. Visit the DAMSIG page.