Graduate NIH Training in BiotechnologyJournal ClubThe purpose of the journal club is to foster community building within the Biotechnology Training Program. During his or her tenure in the training program, each trainee will present a paper (45 minutes) from the literature followed by questions and discussion. A training program faculty member will select the paper in his/her research area. Following the student presentation at the journal club the students and faculty will go for a group dinner.
Selected Journal Club Presentations
September 2007 Presenter: Drew Cunningham Facilitator: Michael Domach Professor of Chemical Engineering Carnegie Mellon University Paper: V. J. J. Martin, D. J. Pitera, S. T. Withers, J. D. Newman, and J. D. Keasling. 2003. “Engineering the mevalonate pathway in Escherichia coli for production of terpenoids.” Nat. Biotechnol. 21:796-802.
March 2007 Presenter: Sara Wargo Facilitator: Mohammad Ataai W.K. Whiteford Professor Chemical and Petroleum Engineering University of Pittsburgh Paper: A. Kushida, M. Yamato, C. Konno, A. Kikuchi, Y. Sakurai and T. Okano , Decrease in culture temperature release monolayer endothelial cell sheets together with deposited fibronectin matrix from temperature-responsive culture surfaces. J Biomed Mater Res 45 (1999), pp. 355–362.
November 2006 Presenter: Amy Gardiner Facilitator: Saleem Khan, Professor Molecular Genetics and Biochemistry University of Pittsburgh Paper: “Silencing of microRNAs in vivo with 'antagomirs',” Jan Krützfeldt, Nikolaus Rajewsky, Ravi Braich, Kallanthottathil G. Rajeev, Thomas Tuschl, Muthiah Manoharan and Markus Stoffel, Nature 438, 685-689 (1 December 2005).
August 2006 Presenter: Kyle Grant Facilitator: Mohammad M. Ataai W.K. Whiteford Professor Chemical and Petroleum Engineering University of Pittsburgh Paper: “Highly Efficient Regulation of Gene Expression by Tetracycline in a Replication-Defective Herpes Simplex Viral Vector,” Yao F, Theopold C, Hoeller D, Bleiziffer O, Lu Z. Mol Ther. 2006 Jun;13(6):1133-41. Epub 2006 Mar 29
November 2005 Presenter: John Stankus Facilitator: William R. Wagner Associate Professor of Surgery, Bioengineering and Chemical Engineering Paper: “Engineering vascularized skeletal muscle tissue,” S. Levenberg, J. Rouwkema, M. Macdonald, E. Gafein, D. Kohane, D. Darland, R. Marini, C. van Blitterswijk, R. Mulligan, P. D’Amore and R. Langer, Nature Biotechnology, Vol. 23, No. 7, July, 2005.
June 2005 Presenter: Azadeh Hajy Alikhani Facilitator: William J. Federspiel W.K. Whiteford Professor Chemical and Petroleum Engineering University of Pittsburgh Paper: “Antibody Affinities and Relative Titers in Polyclonal Populations: Surface Plasmon Resonance Analysis of anti-DNA Antibodies,” D. S. Sem, P. A. McNeeley, and Matthew D. Linnik, Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics Vol. 372, No. 1, December 1, pp. 62-68, 1999
March 2005 Presenter: Jeff Savard Facilitator: James W. Schneider Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering Carnegie Mellon University Paper: “Purification of plasmids by triplex affinity interaction,” T. Schluep and J. L. Clooney, Nucleic Acids Research, 1998, Vol.26, No. 19, 4524-4528.
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