Announcements for Current Topics in Computational Biology (Journal Club), 02-701, Fall 2007

• 9/14 - next week cancelled! I thought the festivities were beginning later, but Bob told me that the journal club next week is going to be pre-empted by Lane Center events. Rescheduling next week would be difficult, so I propose that we simply shift the schedule down a week and have the last meeting 12/6 instead of 11/29. I've adjusted the on-line schedule accordingly. If anyone needs to adjust their talks, feel free to swap things around (but obviously clear this with everyone involved before you do!)
• 9/14 - final week changes After class yesterday we discovered a student (Ying Ding, I think) that wasn't listed on the compbio directory page - so, we actually have one more student than we thought. To compensate, the final session now has three presenters - Byoungkoo Lee, Kui Shen, and Om Choudhary - just like the other sessions. (Byoungkoo and Kui can arm-wrestle or something to decide who gets to "lead" that session - I made an arbitrary assignment for now.)
• 9/6 - Organization of the Journal Club for Fall 2007. Here are the slides from the organizational meeting.

  This year, the journal club will have eleven student-run sessions. Each session will require reading one paper, and will have two presentations: one giving necessary background for the paper, and one giving the results of the paper itself. There will also be a discussion of the paper.

  Each session will be run by a team of three students. A second-year student will present the background material, a first-year student will present the paper's results, and a third-year student will lead the discussion, and also act as the "team lead". Besides leading the discussion the "team lead" is responsible for: recruiting the team; picking a paper and date; supervising a dry run of the presentations, and sending the draft presentations and the comments on them to William; and moderating the talks.

  Dry runs materials are due by midnight Tuesday before the talk. URLs for the papers being presented should be posted one week in advance.

  With a few exceptions (necessary to make the numbers work evenly), first- and second- year students will be on one team this semester, and third-year students will lead two teams. All students should read the papers in advance so that they are able to participate in discussion.

• 8/29 - Venue and time. The journal club (aka 02-701, Current Topics in Computational Biology) has been scheduled to meet on Thursdays from 4:00-5:00. We will start on Thus 9/6 with an organizational meeting.

  William Cohen will organize the Journal Club this fall. Sharon Cavlovich, his assistant (sharonw -at- cs.cmu.edu) will help administer it.