Group Meeting Schedule

Summer 2018

Group meetings are on Thursdays at 10:00-11:30 am in Chemistry Conference Room. Deondre is responsible for bringing his computer. All students, please, e-mail Deondre your presentations no later than midnight on Wednesday.

Date	Literature Review	Research presentation
June 7	Deondre
June 14	Linda	Sam
June 21	Ariana
June 28	Liliya at ICPP-10
July 5	Liliya at DNA struct and dynamics
July 16	TBIC – lunch at Bryn Mawr	We need a speaker
July 19	Yanti	Hyun Kyun
July 26	Hyun Kyun	Ariana+Yanti
August 2		Deondre (ACS) + Linda

Literature Presentations: Select current (2010 - 2018) quadruplex related crystallography 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 Data: About 30 min of our group meeting will be focused on discussing research findings. Every week each student will prepare short informal presentation (5 min maximum) containing summary of the results from the week + tentative research plan for the coming week.

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.

ACS talks: follow the time frame required for ACS. Include background, research design, discussion, and conclusion. Target general chemistry audience.

Research paper: first draft is due on Wednesday August 1st at 9 am; Final draft is due on Wednesday August 8th at 9 am.

Synchrotron times: June 19, (7 pm till June 20 9 am, 15h) and July 31 (11 am till 7 pm, 8h)

ACS meeting is on August 19-23 2018 in Boston. The first draft of the ACS poster is due on Thursday, July 26 at 5 pm. The final version is due on Monday, August 6. Try to print the poster before you leave campus.

Spring 2018

Group meetings will be held at 4:30 pm on Fridays in the Conference room. Prepare a Power Point presentation (2-4 slides) and e-mail it to Deondre ahead of time. The slides should contain the data collected during the week as well as detailed plan outlining work projected for the coming week. Bring your notebook and any relevant paper to have productive discussions.

Fall 2017

Summer 2017

Group meetings are on Thursdays at 9:00-10:30 am in Chemistry Conference Room. Deondre is responsible for bringing his computer. All students, please, e-mail Deondre your presentations no later than midnight on Wednesday.

Date	Presenter
June 15	Candidate presentation/5 min student presentations
June 16 - Friday	Student presentation about their conference experiences – G4 and MARM
June 22	Candidate presentation/5 min student presentations
June 29	Regular group meeting, no literature presentation
July 6	Allan/Linda Literature presentations
July 13	Barrett/Deondre Literature presentations
July 18-Tuesday	TBIC, 4 pm at Haverford
July 20	No literature presentation; quick GM of student results only
July 27	Linda/Allan Research presentations
August 3	Deondre/Barrett ACS talks

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.

ACS talks: follow the time frame required for ACS. Include background, research design, discussion, and conclusion. Target general chemistry audience.

Literature Presentations: Select current (2010 - 2017) quadruplex related crystallography 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 Data: About 30 min of our group meeting will be focused on discussing research findings. Each student needs to prepare short informal presentation (5 min maximum) containing all results from the week as well as one slide with the tentative research plan for the coming week.

Research paper: first draft is due at the end of week nine, July 28 at 5 pm

Final draft is due on Friday August 4^th at 5 pm

ACS meeting is on August 20-24 2017 in Washington DC. Deondre and Barrett give talks, Linda and Allan give posters

The first draft of the ACS poster is due on Monday August 1^st at 5 pm. The final version is due at noon on August 11.

Spring 2017

Group meetings will be held at 4:30 pm on Fridays in the Chemistry Department Conference room. Prepare a Power Point presentation (2-4 slides) and e-mail it to Deondre ahead of time. The slides should contain the data collected during the week as well as detailed plan outlining work projected for the coming week. Bring your notebook and any relevant paper to have productive discussions.

Literature presentation will be presented in the following order: Barrett, Irene, Deondre, Jessica, Allan and Linda. Please, send the paper to the group no later than Wednesday. Focus on the most recent literature. Plan for 20 min presentation.

Fall 2016

Summer 2016

*group meetings at 9:15 am in the chemistry conference room*

Date	Presenter
June 10	Barrett
June 16	Joint meeting with Eric Brown, University of Pennsylvania Medical School
June 24	Sayed
July 1	Amber
July 8	Deondre
July 13	TBIC
July 22	Amber/Deondre research presentation
July 29	Sayed research presentation; Barrett practice of ACS talk

Summer 2015

Liliya, Delfin and Thomas are in France in Jean-Louis Mergny's lab. Liliya is pursuing crystallization of telomeric and oncogene promoter DNA alone and in complex with NMM. Thomas is working on multiple projects including interaction of PtTMPyP4 with human telomeric DNA and kinetics of Tel22 isomerization in the presence of NMM (using fluorescence). Delfin is measuring binding constants between NMM and a variety of oncogene promoter sequences using UV-vis and fluorescence titrations. We hold our group meetings on Fridays at 10 am. Jessica is working in working in the laboratory of Dr. Eric Brown on non-canonical DNA structures that lead to collapse of replication forks in mouse.

Summer 2014

Note, group meetings are on Thursdays at 9 am in Chemistry Conference Room

Date	Presenter
May 28	Joined group meeting with Brad Johnson and Daniel Rencik
June 6	Kara
July 3	Jessica
July 10	Literature presentations*
July 17	Supriya
July 24	June
July 31	Joined group meeting with Luidgi Monsu Scolaro, Universita di Messina, Utaly
August 7	Josh

*note, there will not be presentation of research data (the most exciting result) on this day

Literature Presentations: Students select current quadruplex and porphyrin related paper of interest to all lab members. Presentations length is 12 min + 3min for questions. Feel free to highlight only the most relevant or exciting parts of your selected paper. Students should put the pdf version of the selected paper on Research folder on Wednesday noon before the group meeting. Everybody in the group is responsible for reading one paper in addition to their own. Feel free to ask me for paper suggestions.

Research Data: Another 30 min of our group meeting will be devoted to discussion of the lab research. Each student needs to prepare two slides - one with the most exciting result of the week (and be prepared to explain why it is so exciting using chalk board) and another with the tentative research plan for the coming week. Note, the slide on the most exciting result should not contain more than two figures/spectra.

Research paper: due at the end of the 9^th week.
Kara, June and Jessica - the first draft is due on July 25^th, at 5 pm

Supryia and Josh - the first draft is due Friday, August 1^st, 5 pm

Final draft is due on Friday at 5 pm August 1st for Kara, June and Jessica, and August 8 Supryia and Josh.

Summer 2013

Liliya, Michelle and Navin are in France in Jean-Louis Mergny's lab. Supriya is working in working in the laboratory of Dr. Rodger Liddle, Professor of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, and Chief of Gastroenterology, VA Medical Center, Durham, NC. Her project aims to investigate the cellular mechanisms involved in the synthesis and release of signaling molecule, leukotriene B4, from pancreatic acinar cells in response to inflammatory agents known to cause pancreatitis. KJ is working in Brad Johnson's lab on yeast telomeric DNA. Josh is working in Dr. Robert Pasternak's lab on hemin and malaria.

Fall 2012

Group meetings will be held at 5 pm on Fridays in Liliya's office. There will be no formal presentations. Come, bring your notebnooks and we will have a round table discussion of your results.

Summer 2012

Note, group meetings are on Thursdays at 9 am in Chemistry Conference Room

Date	Presenter
May 25	Steven
May 31	Vienna
June 7	Navin
June 14	Cole
June 19 (Tue)	Michelle
June 28	Cole RP*
July 5	Steven/Vienna
July 12	Navin/Michelle
July 19	Steven/Vienna RP
July 26	Navin/Michelle RP

*RP - research presentation

Presentations: Students select the topic based on the most current quadruplex related literature. Presentations length is no longer than 30 min including questions. Students should e-mail the copy of the selected paper to all the lab members no later than Wednesday noon before the group meeting. This will give the rest of us enough time to read papers before the presentation. Feel free to ask me for topic or paper suggestions.

Research paper: due at the end of the 8^th week for all but Cole.
Vienna, Steven and Navin — the first draft is due on July 6^th, at 5 pm

Michelle — the first draft is due Friday, July 27

Cole — the first draft is due on Wednesday, June 27

Final draft is due on Friday at 5 pm July 20 for Vienna, Steven and Navin, August 10 for Michelle and June 29 for Cole.

ACS meeting is on August 19-23 2012.

Posters for ACS are due on the last day of your research summer.

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