Time and Place

We'll meet regularly, usually on Tuesdays at 3.00pm (sharp) for about 90 minutes in the seminar room. We now have a mailing-list which you can ask to join here.

The Journal Club - What's that?

We believe that friends who keep you informed are a great way to broaden your scope as well as sharpen your focus within the (admittedly) very wide field of evolutionary biology. Just like in any other journal club, we'd like to create an opportunity to present and discuss classic and recent publications and developments of the field (as well as drink a cup of coffee and generally have an interesting and good time).
Of course, talks on related questions would be very welcome too, as well as guest listeners just wanting to eavesdrop a little bit and enrich our dicussions with their viewpoints.

Details

Meeting topics will alternate between current and past science, dealing with either recent research or seminar papers from more classic times.
On "current science sessions", everyone will have the opportunity to present recent articles that he or she finds interesting. During our first meeting, people were mostly interested in a more in-depth approach to a few papers rather than a large collection of abstracts. We hope to gain fruitful insights into every participant's view of this very large field - therefore, everyone should present papers from his or her background or sub-field. Nonetheless, we have compiled a list of suggested journals that might be skimmed for the purpose of the journal club (see below).
On "past science sessions", we as a group will pick seminal papers or classic debates in evolutionary biology. These should of course be suggested by you - the ground-setting model you always wanted to thoroughly discuss or the paradigm-breaking debate you wanted to relive. As of now, no decisions have been made regarding themes or articles; we'll take time during the first session to do just that.

List of Journals

If you've just found a very promising abstract but have no access to the journal in question, just send us an e-mail and we'll figure something out. Also, this list is by no means exclusive: any article that you find interesting is great for presentation, irrespective of whether the journal is on the list or not.