Academic:Memes and Themes
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[edit] Next Meeting - Cancelled
Thursday, May 21, 2009. 4-5 pm.
Location: VBI (Room TBA)
Defining the Scientific Method.
The rise of 'omics' methods and data-driven research presents new possibilities for discovery but also stimulates disagreement over how science should be conducted and even how it should be defined.
Nature Methods 2009. 6(4): 237.
Coffee and snacks will be served.
[edit] What is GBCB Memes and Themes?
GBCB Memes and Themes is a regular meeting of students to discuss broad-scope issues in the field of bioinformatics. It is informal, and designed to be a discussion forum rather than a presentation forum. Topics vary, but should be thematic in nature; research papers are discouraged. Memes and Themes meets on campus every 2-3 weeks.
[edit] Why Memes and Themes?
Graduate school necessarily requires students to focus almost single-mindedly on their own research. As a result, it is easy to lose sight of the larger picture, long-term career goals, and the broader perspective of the field at large. In a field as new and fast-paced as GBCB, this can be detrimental to a student's career after school. Memes and Themes is designed to help develop that perspective, by encouraging students to read and discuss with their peers some of the broader GBCB themes in an informal setting. Memes and Themes also provides the opportunity to socialize with other GBCB students, make connections in the program, and draw together the GBCB community.
[edit] Meeting Archives
[edit] Discussion on Systems Biology
Tuesday, October 16, 2007. 7-9 pm.
Location: Meet in the downstairs lobby of VBI
Discussion on Systems Biology
Has systems biology lived up to its promise? What has been achieved and what is holding the field back? Where is systems biology going and what is needed to make it happen? Four experts from the US and Europe discuss the systems biology landscape in a round-table debate, and students and postdocs share their motivations and expectations about a career in systems biology. The podcast was produced with support from Applied Precision, in association with the Nature Cell Biology and Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology joint Focus on Systems Biology: A User's Guide.
Discussion on Systems Biology (Nature Podcast)
[edit] Saving big pharma from drowning in the data pool
Tuesday, September 18, 2007. 7-9 pm.
Location: Meet in the downstairs lobby of VBI
Saving big pharma from drowning in the data pool.
Spending on drug research and development keeps going up, but the number of new medicines reaching the market each year does not. There are various reasons for this imbalance, but it is accepted that one of the biggest bottlenecks in drug discovery is the escalating amount of information that confronts the researcher, not least the amount of data arising from the human genome project. The data-pool dilemma is twofold: keeping a handle on the information already buried in in-house databases and making use of it; and absorbing the constant flow of new information. ‘There is no point in collecting data and not developing drugs’, says Lewis Jardine from Oxford-based Intellidos. This article looks at some of the ideas emerging from a second generation of youthful informatics companies, which just might save big pharma from drowning in the data pool.
Fiona Brown, Saving big pharma from drowning in the data pool.
Drug Discovery Today, Volume 11, Issues 23-24, December 2006, Pages 1043-1045.
Original article | Local pdf
[edit] Perspectives: Bioinformatics Past, Present, and Future
Wednesday, August 8, 2007. 7-9 pm.
Location: Jamestown Room, Squires Student Center
Perspectives: Bioinformatics Past, Present, and Future.
To mark the occasion of its 10th anniversary, Bioinform spoke to some of the most influential people in the field about the biggest changes in bioinformatics over the last decade, where the discipline stands today, and how things may change over the next 10 years. Including: Russ Altman, Amos Bairoch, Rainer Fuchs, Steve Lincoln, Gene Myers, and Lincoln Stein.
Bioinform: 10th Anniversary Special Issue, B Toner, ed. Web site
[edit] Outside speakers for Memes and Themes
We enthusiastically welcome outside speakers at GBCB Memes and Themes. If you know anyone interested in speaking in this forum, please Contact_us. (Keep in mind that, at this time, we can not offer any honorarium or travel support for Memes and Themes speakers.)
