156:201 Principles in Molecular & Cell Biology - Fall 2006

Small Group Papers

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Lecture Schedule		All students will participate in a small discussion group with a faculty member serving as a facilitator. Each week a research paper will be assigned and each paper will be made available 5-7 days in advance of the discussion section. Each paper will be made available as an Adobe PDF on the course web site.
Lecture Review
Exams
Small Group Facilitators		Students are expected to read and evaluate each assigned paper in advance and prepare a short report that will be due at the start of the discussion section each week. No late reports will be accepted.
Small Group Papers
Small Groups		Grading
Instructors		Each report will be worth a total of 5 points as outlined below. These written reports will be a maximum length of 1 page (single-spaced).
Teaching Assistants
Contact Biosciences		2 points
		State the major hypothesis tested in the paper

		3 points
		Select a key experiment presented in the research paper that tests the hypothesis and breifly discuss each of the following:
		1. What were the controls for that particular experiment and were they adequate?
		2. How does it test the hypothesis?
		3. What do the authors infer from these data?

		Week	Date	Discussion Papers (PDF)
		1	9/11/06	Okazaki et al (1968) CSHSQB 33, 129 (Okazaki Addendum)
		2	9/18/06	José Antonio Tercero, Karim Labib, and John F.X. Diffley EMBO J. 2000 May 2; 19(9): 2082–2093
		3	9/25/06	Martens et al Nature. 2004 Jun 3;429(6991):571-4.
		4	10/2/06	Kravchenko et al Nature. 2005 Aug 4;436(7051):735-9.
		5	10/9/06	Ceci et al Nature. 2003 Dec 4;426(6966):579-84.
		6	10/16/06	Ward et al Cell (6 Oct. 1995)
		7	10/23/06	Badin-Larcon et al Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 Apr 13;101(15):5577-82.
		8	10/30/06	Ivanov et al MBC 16:2636-2650, 2005
		9	11/6/06	Hu et al Science 2003 June; 300 (5626): 1745 - 1749
		10	11/13/06	Kojima et al Nature 1999 Dec 9;402(6762):656-60
			11/20/06	Class Does Not Meet
		11	11/27/06	Tanaka et al Immunity 2005 June; 22 (6):729–736
		12	12/4/06	Stem-cell ageing modified by the cyclindependent kinase inhibitor p16INK4a

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