Gene Technology Journal Club
The MSc and PhD students' Journal Clubs (JC) are held on Tuesdays at 15.15 at the SCI-120 lecture theatre (Natural Sciences Bldg, Akadeemia tee 15).
Journal club (JC) rules (please note rule 9, since this is newish):
- The JCs will be held in Estonian (M.Sc students) or English (PhD students)
- Original research papers, preferably from high impact journals such as Nature/ Nature clones, Science or Cell/ Cell clones should be chosen
- One Covid-19 paper per 2 months quota applies
- Papers have to be greenlighted by the organiser
- Each JC paper is reviewed by one or more fellow students who are obliged to carefully read the paper and comment on it
- Please send out your chosen paper to the reviewer no later than 1 WEEK in advance;
- Please send out your paper to other PhD students no later than the previous Friday;
- JC duration: allow approximately 10-15 min for general introduction and up to 45 min for the paper, include all the figures in the main body of the paper
- Please send out your JC presentation file to the organiser for comments etc at least two days before your JC; (this "novelty" will be introduced from this semester onwards to ensure that a sufficiently broad context will be covered in the Introduction part of the JC and that there won't be any noteworthy ommissions of important facts/data etc pertaining to the article's broader context).
- Reviewers: please check with the JC presenter whether you can comment on the article on an ongoing basis or after the presentation only
- Pariticpation via Zoom is provided only to the students currently abroad (e.g work-related travel) or whose work duties do not let them arrive in-person by 4 pm. In these cases, the student will have to ask the JC organiser for a Zoom link beforehand.
- The JC presenter and reviewer ARE EXPECTED to attend the JC in-person and not via Zoom only (unless there's a good reason for presenting via Zoom only).
Richard Tamme, PhD - the JC organiser
Senior Lecturer
Department of Chemistry and Biotechnology
Tallinn University of Technology
Email: richard.tamme@taltech.ee
Ph. +372 55628559