Group Meeting
Meeting is held once per week in a centrally located conference room.
Group members typically go out for social hour afterwards.
Itinerary
1) Safety – Safety officer, or other group members, will address any safety items the group needs to be aware of.
2) Group business – Catch all for group updates, future scheduling, announcements, etc.
3) Literature review – If you presented your research at the previous meeting you would then deliver a presentation the following week on a journal article of your choosing. Following the presentation you will moderate a short (10-20 min) discussion regarding the paper. The paper may be relevant either to the group as a whole or specifically to your project. It is expected that you select your paper and send it to the group no later than Wednesday of the week you will be moderating. Read the paper and the SI (if any) before group meeting and be prepared to visually project either the paper or the figures from the paper for the discussion.
Note: You are not necessarily expected to be an expert on the subject covered in your paper. It should be relevant to the group or your project, but it is not required that it fall into both of those categories. You should be prepared to moderate a discussion regarding the paper assuming that others in the group have already read it (i.e. we will not be reading the paper together at group meeting). You should assume that others may not have dug deeply into the SI and you should know what is in there in case it becomes helpful during the discussion.
4) Research presentation – You will prepare a ~45 – 60 min formal presentation for the group. This presentation should include current research goals, worked up data, hypotheses, research conclusions, and future work directions.
Caveat: As happens occasionally (e.g. after you go to a conference, if you’ve been writing for a while), you may not have enough new results to justify presenting at group meeting. Don’t fret! You can opt to do an extensive review of a relevant paper instead! If you choose this option, please email the paper to the group no later than Tuesday of the week you will present to give everyone some extra time to read it carefully. Again, be prepared to moderate a detailed discussion of the literature. If you choose this option, you do not need to do a brief literature discussion the following week, but you may consider still having an individual research meeting with Shannon if appropriate.