Journal Club 2007
Welcome to Journal Club, 2007! Journal Club aims to provide an informal forum to discuss scientific papers each week.
To encourage discussion amongst the students, only two academic staff members will be present at each session. These academic staff members will act as moderators and will lead the student discussion, and try to ensure that all students have an opportunity to comment on the paper and ask questions.
Journal Club will be held on Fridays between 12.30 and 1:30 pm, in the Amies Theatre.
The following RULES will apply to Journal Club this year:
- Papers should be selected in consultation with the two moderators rostered to attend the session. Papers may be recent publications, or may be important historical papers that demonstrate a key finding or technique in vision science. Presenters are encouraged to consider papers that are outside their immediate field of study.
- Papers should be given to me - in electronic form if possible - for distribution no later that one week prior to presentation.
- The overhead projector may be used freely.
- Presenters can speak for a maximum of twenty minutes before the moderators will cut you off - in mid-sentence, if necessary - and the paper handed over for group discussion. Ideally, group discussion will have broken out long before this period has elapsed. Twenty minutes may be insufficient time to go through all the details of the paper exhaustively and so presenters should concentrate on highlighting the key aspects of the paper that they believe should be discussed. Presenters should expect that all in attendance have thoroughly read the papers, and so should tailor their presentations accordingly. Moderators will give presenters a warning five minutes before the twenty-minute limit has elapsed.
If you are unable to attend Journal Club a particular week, please e-mail your apologies to the scheduled presenter and both moderators. This will ensure that absentees are known in advance and that no time is lost waiting for them to arrive.
If you have any queries or suggestions, let me know!
Dr Andrew Anderson
Journal Club Co-ordinator
2007 Schedule
Due to copyright regulations access to some PDFs linked to below may be restricted to enrolled students and staff of the University of Melbourne.
Date |
Presenter |
Article details |
Moderators |
Semester 1 |
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| 2nd March | Carla Abbott | Choi et al. (2006). In vivo imaging of the photoreceptor mosaic in retinal dystrophies and correlations with visual function. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci 47: 2080-2092. PDF |
Alex Gentle |
| 9th March | Ryan Maloney | Mitchell et al. (2004). Object-based attention determines dominance in binocular rivalry. Nature 429: 410-413. PDF |
Paul Martin & Andrew Metha |
| 16th March | Laura Downie | Van Eeden et al. (2006). Early vascular and neuronal changes in a VEGF transgenic mouse model of retinal neovascularization. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci 47: 4638-4645. PDF |
Uli Grünert & Algis Vingrys |
| 23rd March | Monica Jong | Witkin et al. (2006). Ultra-high resolution optical coherence tomography assessment of photoreceptors in retinitis pigmentosa and related diseases. Am J Ophthalmol 142: 945-952. PDF |
Shelly Ames & Larry Abel |
| 30th March | Huong Nguyen | Szurman et al. (2005). Experimental implantation and long-term testing of an intraocular vision aid in rabbits. Arch Ophthalmol 123: 964-969. PDF |
Ruth Hogg & Neville McBrien |
| 6th April | --- | GOOD FRIDAY | --- |
| 20th April | Sujata Roy | Sun et al. (2006). Do magnocellular and parvocellular ganglion cells avoid short-wavelength cone input? Vis Neurosci 23: 441-446. PDF |
Bang Bui & Allison McKendrick |
| 27th April | Phillip Bedggood |
Rha et al. (2006). Adaptive optics flood-illumination camera for high speed retinal imaging. Optics Express 14: 4552-4569 PDF |
Geoff Sampson & Mike Pianta |
| 4th May | --- | ARVO | --- |
| 11th May | --- | ARVO | --- |
| 18th May | Elizabeth Bowman | Arzy et al. (2006). Induction of an illusory shadow person. Nature 443: 287 PDF. Supplementary material PDF. |
Jai Jayakumar & Trichur Vidyasagar |
| 25th May | Vickie Wong | MacLaren et al. (2006). Retinal repair by transplantation of photoreceptor precursors. Nature 444: 203-207 PDF. Supplementary material PDF. |
Andrew Jobling & Andrew Metha |
Semester 2 |
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| 27th July | --- | RESEARCH-ARAMA | --- |
| 3rd August | Kwang Cham | Pfeiffer & Homberg (2007). Coding of azimuthal directions via time-compensated combination of celestial compass cues. Current Biology 17: 960-965. PDF |
Andrew Anderson & Paul Martin |
| 10th August | Kumiko Percival | Jacobs et al. (2007). Emergence of novel color vision in mice engineered to express a human cone photopigment. Science 315: 1723-1725. PDF |
Uli Grünert & Larry Abel |
| 17th August | Zheng He | Gao et al. (2007). Extracellular carbonic anhydrase mediates hemorrhagic retinal and cerebral vascular permeability through prekallikrein activation. Nature Medicine 13:181-188. PDF |
Shelly Ames & Neville McBrien |
| 24th August |
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Brusini et al. (2005). Probing glaucoma visual damage by rarebit perimetry. Br J Ophthalmol 89: 180-184. PDF |
Ruth Hogg & Bang Bui |
| 31st August | Daniel Adler | Shamsi et al. (2007). L-Carnitine protects human retinal pigment epithelial cells from oxidative damage. Current Eye Research 32:575-584. PDF |
Jai Jayakumar & Mike Pianta |
| 7th September | Bahar Erikoz | Casagrande et al. (2007). The morphology of the koniocellular axon pathway in the macaque monkey. Cerebral Cortex Jan 10 [Epub ahead of print]. PDF |
Geoff Sampson & Allison McKendrick |
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Narayanan Rajeev | Rossi et al. (2007). Visual performance in emmetropia and low myopia after correction of high-order aberrations. Journal of Vision 7: 1-14. PDF |
Alex Gentle & Andrew Metha |
| 5th October | Arumugam Baskar | Mullins et al. (2007). Differential macular and peripheral expression of bestrophin in human eyes and its implication for Best disease. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci 48: 3372-3380. PDF |
Andrew Jobling & Bang Bui |
| 12th October | Lauren Ayton Dalton%20et%20al%20(2007).pdf | Dalton et al. (2007). Gaze-fixation, brain activation, and amygdala volume in unaffected siblings of individuals with autism. Biol Psychiatry 61: 512-520. PDF |
Andrew Anderson & Algis Vingrys |
| 19th October | --- | Cancelled |
Paul Martin & Larry Abel |
| 26th October | Edward Liu | Smith et al. (2007). Effects of foveal ablation on emmetropization and form-deprivation myopia. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci 48:3914-3922. PDF |
Uli Grünert & Allison McKendrick |