This page is no longer being updated, and exists for archival purposes only (April 2021).
University of Saskatchewan Biology Journal Club has been moved online in light of COVID-19. Please contact the Biology Graduate Student Association or myself to gain access to the USask Biograd & Postdoc Slack group, where journal club has its own channel. The journal club is being organized by Deborah Hawkshaw for the 2020-21 academic year. — Updated June 2020
Past Terms
Fall 2019 – Organizer: Carmen Marquez Mellidez (BGSA Academic Rep)
Date | Topic/ Paper(s) | Discussion Leader |
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November 27 | Research grants for graduate students | Andrea Wishart |
December 4 |
Jeremy Fox in Dynamic Ecology (blog)
|
Julie Colpitts |
Winter 2019 – Organizer: Andrea Wishart (BGSA Academic Rep)
Date | Topic/ Paper(s) | Discussion Leader |
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January 17 |
Vicari et al. 2018 in The Science of Nature – Naturwissenschaften
|
Ruth Greuel |
January 21 |
Trillmich and Wolf 2008 in Behavioural Ecology and Sociobiology
|
Deborah Hawkshaw |
January 28 |
Chandra et al 2018 in Science
|
Zach Balzer |
February 4 |
Khelifa 2017 in Ecology
|
Kirsten Johnsen |
February 11 |
Martini et al 2018 in PeerJ
|
Rebecca Smith |
February 18 | Reading week – no meeting | |
February 25 |
Seymour et al 2003 in Nature
|
Adriana Guerrero Chacón |
*FRIDAY* March 8 (special time) | Adrenoleukodystrophy – neuroendocrine pathogenesis and redefinition of natural history Kemp et al 2016 in Nat Review Endocrinol |
Hanie Khorshidi |
March 11 | Biological relevance of CNV calling methods using familial relatedness including monozygotic twins Castellani et al 2014 in BMC Bioinformatics |
Andrea Wishart |
March 18 | The arthropod, but not the vertebrate host or its environment, dictates bacterial community composition of fleas and ticks Hawlena et al 2013 in ISME J |
Jessica Thoroughgood |
Fall 2018 – Organizer: Andrea Wishart (BGSA Academic Rep)
Date | Topic/ Paper(s) | Discussion Leader |
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October 17 | Planning meeting | Andrea Wishart & Group |
October 24 | No meeting | — |
October 31 |
(Procyon lotor) Schulte-Hostedde et al. 2018 in Conservation Physiology
|
Andrea Wishart |
November 7 |
Ellis & Johnson 2010 in The American Naturalist |
Kelton Braun |
November 14 | The Infirm Ethical Foundations of Conservation Vucetih & Nelson 2013 from Ignoring Nature No More: The Case for Compassionate Conservation, University of Chicago Press | Julie Colpitts |
November 21 | Using Twitter for Science! | Andrea Wishart |
November 28 | No meeting | No meeting |
December 5 |
|
Jessica Thoroughgood |
December 12 |
The purging of deleterious mutations in simple and complex mating environments |
Julie Colpitts |