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The Journal Club Of the Center for Bioinformatics and Quantitative Biology and UI Cancer Center
The CBQB-UI Cancer Center Journal Club will be mentored by faculty members. Graduate students and trainees will lead discussions on highly impactful papers of bioinformatics and quantitative modeling as well as papers of experimental studies that provide opportunity of modeling.
The journal club serves for multiple objectives including but not limited to
- keeping up-to-date with recently published literature
- improving critique skills and communication skills
- fostering interactions.
The Journal Club is offered in partnership with the University of Illinois Cancer Center
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Our goal with this is to promote the active dissemination of knowledge on novel methodological advances, facilitate discussion on fundamental aspects of gene and nuclear regulation, and increase awareness on systems biology approaches.

We hope the journal club will help trainees improve critical literature appraisal skills in identifying knowledge gaps and future research questions, and develop communication competency at the same time.

I think this would be a terrific opportunity for the trainees to get familiar with new research topics, and at the same time develop critical thinking skills.
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Meetings Time: 1:30 PM Central Time (US and Canada)
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Guide for Paper Selection
Guide for paper selection
- Decide the journal club papers by consulting with your advisor(s) or faculty mentors weeks prior to the presentation date. Papers from high-impact journals are preferred.
- Topics/areas suggested but not limited
- biotechnology methods,
- quantitative/statistical methods,
- system biology,
- gene regulation, and
- omics
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Guide for Article Critiquing
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Topic Archive
10/18/2021 – Yongchao Huang (Dai/Penalver-Bernabe Lab) – Integration of multiomics data with graph convolutional networks to identify new cancer genes and their associated molecular mechanisms [PDF]
11/01/2021 – Aydolun Petenkaya (Liang/Chronis lab) – Chromatin Velocity reveals epigenetic dynamics by single-cell profiling of heterochromatin and euchromatin [PDF]
11/15/2021 – Xinyi Liu (Wang lab) – Integrating microarray-based spatial transcriptomics and single-cell RNA-seq reveals tissue architecture in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinomas [PDF]
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