The Journal Club's philosophy and ground rules for speakers are as follows:

Topics 

• Pick one to three recent publications that are focused on a single subject area using an experimental organism of your choice. It does not have to be human or even mammalian. The relevance to human genetics may be obvious or entirely speculative.  To determine whether your journal articles have already been presented by HGJC speakers since January 2002, please see the A-Z Articles Index by First Author's Last Name on the Past Presentations link.
• Make up a catchy title and submit the title and references to the HGJC administrator by email (rcuevas@stanford.edu ) or by fax (725-8112) AT LEAST 14 DAYS IN ADVANCE of your HGJC presentation date.
• You are not allowed to present papers on which you are a co-author even if your contribution to the paper was minor. Presentations of your own work should be done as part of a "current topics" or "research in progress" series. 

Presentation

• Give a general introduction to the topic area and explain key concepts and definitions keeping in mind the heterogeneous background and educational level of the participants.
• Don't assume that everybody has read the papers and has completely understood the content. While it is necessary to present the content, you don't have to follow the papers' outlines. You can develop your own story and pull in data from the papers as appropriate.
• Critically evaluate the papers' methods, results and conclusions. Don't accept the conclusions just because the paper is published in a refereed journal.   
• An LCD projector is installed in B200. You may bring your own Mac or PC laptop or your PowerPoint file on a CD or Jump Drive for presentation via a Mac G3 laptop provided by the Journal Club. At 3:45 p.m. on your HGJC presentation date, a designated person from the Francke Lab (Room B203) will meet you in Room B200 to help you set up.

Attendance TOP OF PAGE

• To continue with intellectually stimulating discussions and in depth reviews of timely research subjects, we need a critical mass of attendees. Please try to attend as often as you can and encourage the people in your laboratory to attend.