Group Meeting Schedule

Summer 2023

Group meetings are on Thursdays at 10:00-11:30 am in Chemistry Conference Room. Kailey is responsible for bringing her computer. All students, please, e-mail Kailey your presentations no later than midnight on Wednesday. Everyone will present research data every week.

Research Data: We will spend about 30 min on discussing research findings. Each student needs to prepare short informal presentation (5 min maximum, 2 slides) containing highlight of results from the week and questions they have for the group.

Background Presentations: You will select minimum 5 papers directly related to your research and 2 general review papers about G-quadruplexes, ligands, i-motifs, etc. Read these papers carefully and answer the following questions:

• What is the system you are studying and why is it interesting
• What biochemical information is available for your system (CD, TDS, stability, ligand interactions)
• Does your work include ligands? What ligands are they are why are they important? What is known about them?
• What biological information is available for your system?
• What is the gap in knowledge?
• How can your research fill in that gap

Steps:

1. Prepare a list of papers and send it to Liliya.
2. Select one most interesting/relevant/cool paper and send it to the lab to read no later than Wednesday 9 am.
3. Prepare 20 min presentation + 10 min for questions.
4. Meet with Liliya to discuss your presentation and get feedback (no later than Wednesday 4 pm).
5. Use information that you learned to search for more papers. Use your knowledge to write strong introduction to your end of the summer paper or your thesis.

Research presentation: summarizes all research conducted over the summer. Format: 20-25 min plus 5 min for questions. PowerPoint presentation should include background, research design, discussion, and conclusion/future directions. Target general chemistry audience. Make sure to practice before presenting.

Research paper: first draft is due Monday, week nine, July 17th at midnight. You will get feedback by the end of the week and the final draft is due on Friday July 28th at 5 pm.

Sigma Xi poster is due on Friday, week 9, July 21st at midnight. The final version is due on the first day of classes.

Fall 2022

Group meetings are on Fridays from 11:30-12:30 in the Chemistry seminar room. Prepare a PowerPoint Presentation (1-4 slides) and either add it to the shared Google slides or email to Kailey ahead of time. The slides should contain an overview/introduction, the data collected during the week, as well as a detailed plan outlining projected work for the upcoming week. Bring your notebook and any relevant papers to conduct productive discussion.

Summer 2022

Group meetings are on Thursdays at 10:00-11:30 am in Chemistry Conference Room. Kailey is responsible for bringing her computer. All students, please, e-mail Kailey your presentations no later than midnight on Wednesday.

Research Data: We will spend about 30 min on discussing research findings. Each student needs to prepare short informal presentation (5 min maximum, 2 slides) containing highlight of results from the week and tentative research plan for the coming week.

Literature Presentations: Select current (2015 - now) quadruplex/i-motif related paper. Presentations length is 15-20 min with 10 min for questions. The presenters are free to highlight only the most relevant or exciting parts of the selected paper (and not the entire paper).  The
presenter should e-mail the pdf version of the selected paper to each member of the group by Tuesday at noon. Every member of the lab should read the paper, focusing on Result section and figures. Feel free to ask me for paper suggestions.

Research presentation: summarizes all research conducted over the summer. Format: 20-25 min plus 5 min for questions. Power point presentation should include background, research design, discussion, and conclusion. Target general chemistry audience. Make sure to practice before presenting.

Research paper: first draft is due at the end of week nine, July 22 at midnight. Final draft is due on Friday July 28 th at 5 pm.

Sigma Xi poster is due on Tuesday July 25 at midnight. The final version is due on the first day of classes.

Spring 2022

Group meetings are being help every-other Friday at 12pm in the Chemistry Seminar room, starting 02/11. Prepare a PowerPoint presentation (1-4 slides) add it to the shared Google slides, and email it to Kailey ahead of time. The slides should contain a project overview/introduction, the data collected during the week as well as a detailed plan outlining work projected for the upcoming week. Bring your notebook and any relevant papers to initiate productive discussions.

Fall 2021

Group meetings are being held Fridays at 1 pm in the Chemistry Seminar room. Prepare a PowerPoint presentation (2-4 slides) and email it to Kailey ahead of time. The slides should contain the data collected during the week as well as a detailed plan outlining work projected for the upcoming week. Bring your notebook and any relevant papers to initiate productive discussions.

Summer 2021

Lab research resumes in-person!

Group meetings are being held on Thursdays at 10 am. Below is the schedule for your final research presentations, which should be 30 minutes long. All presentations should be sent to Liliya at least 24 hrs in advance of your presentation day.

G-quadruplex Webinar: Nucleic Acid Secondary Structures: G4s and Beyond hosted by Katrin Paeshcke and Sara Richter. The webinar takes place on Thursdays at 8 am. To prepare, supplemental readings are discussed during Journal Club.

Journal Clubs will be held Wednesdays at 4 pm. The presentation schedule is below. 

Liliya will reach out to each Webinar presenters and ask for one paper.

Presenters for the journal club will prepare a 20 minute presentation of the paper to the group. Reach out to Liliya if you need any help. Look over student questions and make sure you can answer them, at least conceptually, and bring those questions into our discussion.

A summary of the talk should be prepared by the presenter and will be given during the group meeting (apprx. 10 minutes). 

Participants of the journal club should read the papers, attend the journal club and the Webinar, and think of at least one question to bring to the journal club.

Summer 2020

Lab research still continues remotely!

Group meetings are being held over Zoom at 2:00 pm EST on Thursdays. PowerPoint presentations (2-4 slides) should be prepared, covering work done over the week and future work plans. 

Crystallography course taught by Kay Perry, Ph.D, Staff Scientist at NE-CAT, Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory takes place at 12:00 pm EST on Tuesdays. To prepare, readings assigned by Dana Beseiso are discussed Mondays at 2:00 pm.

G-quadruplex Webinar: Nucleic Acid Secondary Structures: G4s and Beyond hosted by Katrin Paeshcke and Sara Richter. The webinar takes place on Thursdays at 8 am. To prepare, supplemental readings are discussed Wednesdays at 1:00 pm during Journal Club.

Fall 2019

Group meetings will be held at 5:00 pm on Wednesdays in the Conference room. Prepare a Power Point presentation (2-4 slides) and e-mail it to Sawyer ahead of time. The slides should contain the data collected during the week as well as detailed plan outlining work projected for the coming week. Bring your notebook and any relevant paper to have productive discussions.

Summer 2019

Group meetings are on Fridays at 9:30-11:00 am in Chemistry Conference Room. Hyun Kyung is responsible for bringing her computer and setting up the presentation. All students, please, e-mail Hyun Kyung your presentations no later than midnight on Thursday.

Table 1. List of end-of-summer Research presentations

Research Data: Each student needs to prepare short informal presentation (5 min maximum) containing all results from the week as well as one slide with the tentative research plan for the coming week.

End-of-summer research presentation: summarizes all research conducted over the summer. Format: 20-25 min plus 5 min for questions. Power point presentation should include background, research design, discussion, and conclusion. Target general chemistry audience. Make sure to practice before presenting.

Research paper: First draft is due at the end of week nine, August 2nd 5 pm. Final draft is due on Friday August 9th at 5 pm

Sigma Xi poster session is on September 12-13. Everybody should prepare a poster. The first draft of Poster/Abstract internal lab due date is August 9. The final version is due August 31.

Summer 2018

Group meetings are on Thursdays at 10:00-11:30 am in Chemistry Conference Room. Deondre is responsible for bringing his computer. All students, please, e-mail Deondre your presentations no later than midnight on Wednesday.

Literature Presentations: Select current (2010 - 2018) quadruplex related crystallography paper. Presentations length is 15-20 min with 10 min for questions. The presenters are free to highlight only the most relevant or exciting parts of the selected paper (and not the entire paper).  The presenter should e-mail the pdf version of the selected paper to each member of the group by Tuesday at noon. Every member of the lab should read the paper, focusing on Result section and figures. Feel free to ask me for paper suggestions.Research Data: About 30 min of our group meeting will be focused on discussing research findings. Every week each student will prepare short informal presentation (5 min maximum) containing summary of the results from the week + tentative research plan for the coming week.

Research presentation: summarizes all research conducted over the summer. Format: 20-25 min plus 5 min for questions. Power point presentation should include background, research design, discussion, and conclusion. Target general chemistry audience. Make sure to practice before presenting.

ACS talks: follow the time frame required for ACS. Include background, research design, discussion, and conclusion. Target general chemistry audience.

Research paper: first draft is due on Wednesday August 1st at 9 am; Final draft is due on Wednesday August 8th at 9 am.

Synchrotron times: June 19, (7 pm till June 20 9 am, 15h) and July 31 (11 am till 7 pm, 8h)

ACS meeting is on August 19-23 2018 in Boston. The first draft of the ACS poster is due on Thursday, July 26 at 5 pm. The final version is due on Monday, August 6. Try to print the poster before you leave campus.

Spring 2018

Group meetings will be held at 4:30 pm on Fridays in the Conference room. Prepare a Power Point presentation (2-4 slides) and e-mail it to Deondre ahead of time. The slides should contain the data collected during the week as well as detailed plan outlining work projected for the coming week. Bring your notebook and any relevant paper to have productive discussions.

Fall 2017

Group meetings will be held at 4:30 pm on Fridays in the Conference room. Prepare a Power Point presentation (2-4 slides) and e-mail it to Deondre ahead of time. The slides should contain the data collected during the week as well as detailed plan outlining work projected for the coming week. Bring your notebook and any relevant paper to have productive discussions.

Summer 2017

Group meetings are on Thursdays at 9:00-10:30 am in Chemistry Conference Room. Deondre is responsible for bringing his computer. All students, please, e-mail Deondre your presentations no later than midnight on Wednesday.

Research presentation: summarizes all research conducted over the summer. Format: 20-25 min plus 5 min for questions. Power point presentation should include background, research design, discussion, and conclusion. Target general chemistry audience. Make sure to practice before presenting.

ACS talks: follow the time frame required for ACS. Include background, research design, discussion, and conclusion. Target general chemistry audience.

Literature Presentations: Select current (2010 - 2017) quadruplex related crystallography paper. Presentations length is 15-20 min with 10 min for questions. The presenters are free to highlight only the most relevant or exciting parts of the selected paper (and not the entire paper).  The presenter should e-mail the pdf version of the selected paper to each member of the group by Tuesday at noon. Every member of the lab should read the paper, focusing on Result section and figures. Feel free to ask me for paper suggestions.

Research Data: About 30 min of our group meeting will be focused on discussing research findings. Each student needs to prepare short informal presentation (5 min maximum) containing all results from the week as well as one slide with the tentative research plan for the coming week.

Research paper: first draft is due at the end of week nine, July 28 at 5 pm

Final draft is due on Friday August 4^th at 5 pm

ACS meeting is on August 20-24 2017 in Washington DC. Deondre and Barrett give talks, Linda and Allan give posters

The first draft of the ACS poster is due on Monday August 1^st at 5 pm. The final version is due at noon on August 11.

Spring 2017

Group meetings will be held at 4:30 pm on Fridays in the Chemistry Department Conference room. Prepare a Power Point presentation (2-4 slides) and e-mail it to Deondre ahead of time. The slides should contain the data collected during the week as well as detailed plan outlining work projected for the coming week. Bring your notebook and any relevant paper to have productive discussions.

Literature presentation will be presented in the following order: Barrett, Irene, Deondre, Jessica, Allan and Linda. Please, send the paper to the group no later than Wednesday. Focus on the most recent literature. Plan for 20 min presentation.

Fall 2016

Group meetings will be held at 4:30 pm on Fridays in the Conference room. Prepare a Power Point presentation (2-4 slides) and e-mail it to Deondre ahead of time. The slides should contain the data collected during the week as well as detailed plan outlining work projected for the coming week. Bring your notebook and any relevant paper to have productive discussions.

Summer 2016

*group meetings at 9:15 am in the chemistry conference room*

Summer 2015

Liliya, Delfin and Thomas are in France in Jean-Louis Mergny's lab. Liliya is pursuing crystallization of telomeric and oncogene promoter DNA alone and in complex with NMM. Thomas is working on multiple projects including interaction of PtTMPyP4 with human telomeric DNA and kinetics of Tel22 isomerization in the presence of NMM (using fluorescence). Delfin is measuring binding constants between NMM and a variety of oncogene promoter sequences using UV-vis and fluorescence titrations. We hold our group meetings on Fridays at 10 am. Jessica is working in working in the laboratory of Dr. Eric Brown on non-canonical DNA structures that lead to collapse of replication forks in mouse.

Summer 2014

Note, group meetings are on Thursdays at 9 am in Chemistry Conference Room

*note, there will not be presentation of research data (the most exciting result) on this day

Research presentation: summarizes all research conducted over the summer. Format: 20-25 min plus 5 min for questions. Power point presentation should include background, research design, discussion, and conclusion.  Make sure to practice before presenting.

Literature Presentations: Students select current quadruplex and porphyrin related paper of interest to all lab members. Presentations length is 12 min + 3min for questions. Feel free to highlight only the most relevant or exciting parts of your selected paper.  Students should put the pdf version of the selected paper on Research folder on Wednesday noon before the group meeting. Everybody in the group is responsible for reading one paper in addition to their own. Feel free to ask me for paper suggestions.

Research Data: Another 30 min of our group meeting will be devoted to discussion of the lab research. Each student needs to prepare two slides - one with the most exciting result of the week (and be prepared to explain why it is so exciting using chalk board) and another with the tentative research plan for the coming week. Note, the slide on the most exciting result should not contain more than two figures/spectra.

Research paper: due at the end of the 9^th week.
Kara, June and Jessica - the first draft is due on July 25^th, at 5 pm

Supryia and Josh - the first draft is due Friday, August 1^st, 5 pm

Final draft is due on Friday at 5 pm August 1st for Kara, June and Jessica, and August 8 Supryia and Josh.

Summer 2013

Liliya, Michelle and Navin are in France in Jean-Louis Mergny's lab. Supriya is working in working in the laboratory of Dr. Rodger Liddle, Professor of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, and Chief of Gastroenterology, VA Medical Center, Durham, NC. Her project aims to investigate the cellular mechanisms involved in the synthesis and release of signaling molecule, leukotriene B4, from pancreatic acinar cells in response to inflammatory agents known to cause pancreatitis. KJ is working in Brad Johnson's lab on yeast telomeric DNA. Josh is working in Dr. Robert Pasternak's lab on hemin and malaria.

Fall 2012

Group meetings will be held at 5 pm on Fridays in Liliya's office. There will be no formal presentations. Come, bring your notebnooks and we will have a round table discussion of your results.

Summer 2012

Note, group meetings are on Thursdays at 9 am in Chemistry Conference Room

*RP - research presentation

Presentations: Students select the topic based on the most current quadruplex related literature. Presentations length is no longer than 30 min including questions. Students should e-mail the copy of the selected paper to all the lab members no later than Wednesday noon before the group meeting. This will give the rest of us enough time to read papers before the presentation. Feel free to ask me for topic or paper suggestions.

Research Data: Another 30 min of our group meeting will be devoted to discussion of the lab research. Each student needs to prepare two slides - one with the most exciting result of the week (and be prepared to explain why it is so exciting using chalk board) and another with the tentative research plan for the coming week. Note, the slide on the most exciting result should not contain more than two figures/spectra.

Research presentation: summarizes all research conducted over the summer. Format: 20-25 min plus 5 min for questions. Power point presentation should include background, research design, discussion, and conclusion.

Research paper: due at the end of the 8^th week for all but Cole.
Vienna, Steven and Navin — the first draft is due on July 6^th, at 5 pm

Michelle — the first draft is due Friday, July 27

Cole — the first draft is due on Wednesday, June 27

Final draft is due on Friday at 5 pm July 20 for Vienna, Steven and Navin, August 10 for Michelle and June 29 for Cole.

ACS meeting is on August 19-23 2012.

Posters for ACS are due on the last day of your research summer.