The Journal Club takes place every Tuesday during term, from 11:15-12:00, in the seminar room of the Zoological Institute (Vesalgasse 1, first floor). For questions regarding this seminar please contact Lukas Schärer (lukas.scharer-at-unibas.ch or 061/ 267 03 66).
| Date | Paper to be read and discussed | presented by |
|---|---|---|
| 18.9. | an initial meeting to explain the aims and to distribute the slots | Mathias Kölliker, Dieter Ebert |
| 25.9. | Innes et al. (2000). Avoiding the cost of males in obligately asexual Daphnia pulex (Leydig). Proc. Roy. Soc. Lond. B 267, 991-997. | David Duneau |
| 2.10. | Nidelet & Kaltz (2007). Direct and correlated responses to selection in a host–parasite system: testing for the emergence of genotype specificity. Evolution 61, 1803-1811. | Benjamin Lange |
| 9.10. | Shultz & Dunbar (2007). The evolution of the social brain: anthropoid primates contrast with other vertebrates. Proc. Roy. Soc. Lond. B 274, 2429-2436. |
Claudio Kugler |
| 16.10. | Verdu & al. (2007). Burning phylogenies: fire, molecular evolutionary rates, and diversification. Evolution 61, 2195-2204. | Beatrice Krummen |
| 23.10. | Diggle & al. (2007). Evolutionary theory of bacterial quorum sensing: when is a signal not a signal? Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B 362, 1241-1249. | Flore Mas |
| 30.10. | Reusch et al. (2005). Ecosystem recovery after climatic extremes enhanced by genotypic diversity. PNAS 102, 2826–2831. |
Pepijn Luijckx |
| 6.11. | Brites et al. (in prep.). A Dscam homologue in the crustacean Daphnia is diversified by alternative splicing like in insects. |
Daniela Brites |
| 13.11. | Fukami et al. (2007). Immigration history controls diversification in experimental adaptive radiation. Nature 446, 436-439. |
Annette Bieger |
| 20.11. | Ekstrom et al. (2007). Unusual sex roles in a highly promiscuous parrot: the Greater Vasa Parrot Caracopsis vasa. Ibis 149, 313-320. | Peter Sandner |
| 27.11. | Ryan et al. (2007). Ecological speciation in South Atlantic island finches. Science 315, 1420-1423. |
Moritz Muschick |
| 4.12. | Reinhardt et al. (2007). Female-limited polymorphism in the copulatory organ of a traumatically inseminating insect. Am. Nat. 170, 931-935. | Tim Janicke |
| 11.12. | Charlat et al. (2007). Male-killing bacteria trigger a cycle of increasing male fatigue and female promiscuity. Current Biology 17, 273–277. | Adrian Baumeyer |
| 18.12. | Barreto & McCartney (2007). Extraordinary AFLP fingerprint similarity despite strong assortative mating between reef fish color morphospecies. Evolution doi:10.1111/j.1558-5646.2007.00285.x | Frauke Münzel |
The Journal Club Seminar allows you to learn an important skill for a scientist, namely to critically evaluate publications in the primary scientific literature. Why is a study interesting? Is it experimetnally well performed and analysed correctly? Are the conclusions justified or do the authors over-interpreted their findings? Questions such as these are often not easy to answer for beginning scientists.
The participants of the Journal Club Seminar present papers they find particularly interesting (or questionable) and will get constructive feedback from the other participants.
In order to receive the 2 KPs for this course the participants need to present a paper during the Seminar and write an essay (in English, about 3 pages, with references), which briefly summarizes the presented paper and which outlines the main points we discussed.