MCB 400
Cell Structure & Function
School of Molecular & Cellular Biology
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Individual Presentations - MCB 400 Fall 2008

- Everyone selects one scientific paper to present and at least two more to write a review about from the list of scientific journal below. You can search by specific topics using the Pubmed link . Click HERE to access Pubmed.

Accepted Journals:

Cell

Molecular Cell Biology

Molecular Biology of the Cell

Journal of Cell Biology

PLOS

PNAS (Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America)

EMBO Journal

Nature Cell Biology

Current Biology

Traffick

 

 

Presentations:

- There will be two persons presenting per group each week, each person presenting their own article. Talks show be under 25 minutes long. Look under Discussion for current schedule.

- If you are to present, please email the article or a link to your article to lmatzat2@uiuc.edu by Wednesday at 12 pm on the week you are presenting so everyone can read your article.

 

Papers:

- You also need to write three reviews of journal articles. You can write on the same article as the one you present.

- You need to send an electronic copy of your review to lmatzat2@uiuc.edu due on the Thursday of the weeks that you chose to write a review of your journal article

 

Discussion papers should be in the form of "News and Views" or "Perspectives" (see below).

Click HERE to download instructions for the discussion papers

 

Examples of News and Views:

Nature Journal go to the News and Views section under In This Issue/Research highlights.

 

Examples of Perspectives:

PLOS Medicine. Go to perspective section.