Group Meeting 2021-23 Archives
Summer 2023
Group meetings are on Thursdays at 10:00-11:30 am in Chemistry Conference Room. Kailey is responsible for bringing her computer. All students, please, e-mail Kailey your presentations no later than midnight on Wednesday. Everyone will present research data every week.
Week 1 | Week 2 | Week 3 | Week 4 | Week 5 | |
Date | May 25th | June 1st | June 8th | June 15th | June 22nd |
Background Presentation | Harrison | Gwen | Abdullah | Eric | |
Research Presentation | |||||
Special Meeting | Wilner Lab visit (Ursinus) |
Week 6 | Week 7 | Week 8 | Week 9 | Week 10 | |
Date | June 29th | July 6th | July 13th | July 20th | July 27th |
Background Presentation | Jason | ||||
Research Presentation | Gwen | Harrison, Eric Gwen | Abdullah Jason | ||
Special Meeting | Joint meeting @ Haverford. Gwen Harrison | Joint meeting @ NIH w/Jay Schneekloth. Frederick, MD | Joint meeting w/ Haverford. Eric Jason |
Research Data: We will spend about 30 min on discussing research findings. Each student needs to prepare short informal presentation (5 min maximum, 2 slides) containing highlight of results from the week and questions they have for the group.
Background Presentations: You will select minimum 5 papers directly related to your research and 2 general review papers about G-quadruplexes, ligands, i-motifs, etc. Read these papers carefully and answer the following questions:
- What is the system you are studying and why is it interesting
- What biochemical information is available for your system (CD, TDS, stability, ligand interactions)
- Does your work include ligands? What ligands are they are why are they important? What is known about them?
- What biological information is available for your system?
- What is the gap in knowledge?
- How can your research fill in that gap
Steps:
- Prepare a list of papers and send it to Liliya.
- Select one most interesting/relevant/cool paper and send it to the lab to read no later than Wednesday 9 am.
- Prepare 20 min presentation + 10 min for questions.
- Meet with Liliya to discuss your presentation and get feedback (no later than Wednesday 4 pm).
- Use information that you learned to search for more papers. Use your knowledge to write strong introduction to your end of the summer paper or your thesis.
Research presentation: summarizes all research conducted over the summer. Format: 20-25 min plus 5 min for questions. PowerPoint presentation should include background, research design, discussion, and conclusion/future directions. Target general chemistry audience. Make sure to practice before presenting.
Research paper: first draft is due Monday, week nine, July 17th at midnight. You will get feedback by the end of the week and the final draft is due on Friday July 28th at 5 pm.
Sigma Xi poster is due on Friday, week 9, July 21st at midnight. The final version is due on the first day of classes.
Fall 2022
Group meetings are on Fridays from 11:30-12:30 in the Chemistry seminar room. Prepare a PowerPoint Presentation (1-4 slides) and either add it to the shared Google slides or email to Kailey ahead of time. The slides should contain an overview/introduction, the data collected during the week, as well as a detailed plan outlining projected work for the upcoming week. Bring your notebook and any relevant papers to conduct productive discussion.
Summer 2022
Group meetings are on Thursdays at 10:00-11:30 am in Chemistry Conference Room. Kailey is responsible for bringing her computer. All students, please, e-mail Kailey your presentations no later than midnight on Wednesday.
Week 2 | Week 3 | Week 4 | Week 5 | Week 6 | |
Date | June 2nd | June 9th | June 16th | June 23rd | June 30th |
Who/what | Erin & David MARM talk | Paul lit. pres. | Harrison lit pres. | Kailey lit. pres. | Erin lit. pres. |
Week 7 | Week 8 | Special Event | Week 9 | Week 10 | |
Date | July 7th | July 14th | July 19th | July 21st | July 28th |
Who/what | David lit. pres. | Erin research pres. | TBIC | David & Harrison research pres. | Paul & Kailey research pres. |
Research Data: We will spend about 30 min on discussing research findings. Each student needs to prepare short informal presentation (5 min maximum, 2 slides) containing highlight of results from the week and tentative research plan for the coming week.
Literature Presentations: Select current (2015 - now) quadruplex/i-motif related paper. Presentations length is 15-20 min with 10 min for questions. The presenters are free to highlight only the most relevant or exciting parts of the selected paper (and not the entire paper). The
presenter should e-mail the pdf version of the selected paper to each member of the group by Tuesday at noon. Every member of the lab should read the paper, focusing on Result section and figures. Feel free to ask me for paper suggestions.
Research presentation: summarizes all research conducted over the summer. Format: 20-25 min plus 5 min for questions. Power point presentation should include background, research design, discussion, and conclusion. Target general chemistry audience. Make sure to practice before presenting.
Research paper: first draft is due at the end of week nine, July 22 at midnight. Final draft is due on Friday July 28 th at 5 pm.
Sigma Xi poster is due on Tuesday July 25 at midnight. The final version is due on the first day of classes.
Spring 2022
Group meetings are being help every-other Friday at 12pm in the Chemistry Seminar room, starting 02/11. Prepare a PowerPoint presentation (1-4 slides) add it to the shared Google slides, and email it to Kailey ahead of time. The slides should contain a project overview/introduction, the data collected during the week as well as a detailed plan outlining work projected for the upcoming week. Bring your notebook and any relevant papers to initiate productive discussions.
Fall 2021
Group meetings are being held Fridays at 1 pm in the Chemistry Seminar room. Prepare a PowerPoint presentation (2-4 slides) and email it to Kailey ahead of time. The slides should contain the data collected during the week as well as a detailed plan outlining work projected for the upcoming week. Bring your notebook and any relevant papers to initiate productive discussions.
Summer 2021
Lab research resumes in-person!
Group meetings are being held on Thursdays at 10 am. Below is the schedule for your final research presentations, which should be 30 minutes long. All presentations should be sent to Liliya at least 24 hrs in advance of your presentation day.
Week 9 | Week 10 | Week 10 |
July 20th | July 27th | July 29th |
Charlotte | Sara | Zahara |
Kevin | Tamanaa | David |
G-quadruplex Webinar: Nucleic Acid Secondary Structures: G4s and Beyond hosted by Katrin Paeshcke and Sara Richter. The webinar takes place on Thursdays at 8 am. To prepare, supplemental readings are discussed during Journal Club.
Journal Clubs will be held Wednesdays at 4 pm. The presentation schedule is below.
Week 1 | Week 2 | Week 3 | Week 4 | Week 5 | |
Who/Date | May 27th | June 3rd | June 10th | June 17th | June 24th |
Charlotte | Venkata susheila | X-tallography | |||
Kevin | Jeilin Chen | X-tallography | |||
Sara | Alice Pyne | Weisz | |||
Tamanaa | Irene Regeni | Bernier | |||
Zahara | Sathyamoorthy | ||||
David | Chaudhuri |
Week 6 | Week 7 | Week 8 | Week 9 | |
Who/Date | July 1st | July 8th | July 15th | July 22nd |
Charlotte | Balci | |||
Kevin | Joo | |||
Sara | Birkedal | |||
Tamanaa | Wang | |||
Zahara | Zong | |||
David | Patel | Bochman | ||
Kailey | Hafner |
Liliya will reach out to each Webinar presenters and ask for one paper.
Presenters for the journal club will prepare a 20 minute presentation of the paper to the group. Reach out to Liliya if you need any help. Look over student questions and make sure you can answer them, at least conceptually, and bring those questions into our discussion.
A summary of the talk should be prepared by the presenter and will be given during the group meeting (apprx. 10 minutes).
Participants of the journal club should read the papers, attend the journal club and the Webinar, and think of at least one question to bring to the journal club.