Journal Club
Welcome to Journal Club, 2008! 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!
2008 Schedule
Acrobat pdf versions of papers, along with the current Journal Club roster, can be accessed via the Learning Management System (LMS; see http://www.lms.unimelb.edu.au/) under the subject code 655-701; "Journal Club" is the second menu item on the left hand side. If you find that you cannot access this resource, please contact Pianca Lun (plun@ unimelb.edu.au).
Archives: 2007
Dr Andrew Anderson
Journal Club Co-ordinator