Journal Club

The community of scientists working on transposable elements, endogenous viruses, and other repetitive elements is scattered all across Uppsala. In July 2017, we therefore established the Uppsala Transposon Club as an email list to connect local scientists across departments and universities. Contact Alexander Suh if you would like to join the club!

TE Tuesday

Approximately once a month there is TE Tuesday, an informal journal club/pub loosely inspired by the Ross-Ibarra lab's R.E.H.A.B.. We meet to discuss a selected topic, for which a selected paper is provided as a discussion primer. The main focus is to discuss different viewpoints (and similarities) in the context of the various organisms we work on.

Here is what we have been up to so far, or soon will be up to. The format is either a pub setting or B.Y.O.B. (bring your own beverage).

Date	Place	Topic	Primer	Comment
June 13, 18:00	Bryggeriet Ångkvarn	First TE Tuesday	N/A	Welcome Valentina Peona and Marco Ricci!
July 11, 18:00	Båthuset	TE defense	N/A	Welcome Caroline Guldvog!
August 24, 17:00	EBC benches at 18e, B.Y.O.B.	Satellite DNA	Meštrović et al. 2015	TE Tuesday on a Thursday, special guest Matthias Weissensteiner
No TE Tuesday in September due to Uppsala Transposon Symposium (9 invited talks about TEs!) on October 6.
October 31, 18:00	O'Connor's	TE GWAS	Laricchia et al. 2017	Welcome Anne-Marie Dion-Côté!
December 05, 17:00	EBC 18D, room 1100	Best of 2017	Pick your favorite paper of 2017	Last TE Tuesday of 2017! Discussion summary here.
No TE Tuesday in January due to winter holidays.
February 20, 18:00	O'Connor's	DNA elimination	Smith et al. 2018	First TE Tuesday of 2018!
March 27, 18:00	O'Connor's	piRNA	Parhad et al. 2017
April 24, 18:00	Bishops Arms	centromere TEs	Presting 2018
June 05, 18:00	EBC benches at 18e, B.Y.O.B.	machine learning	Schietgat et al. 2018	Welcome Jesper Boman!
July 24, 18:00	Båthuset	squamate TEs	Pasquesi et al. 2018	Welcome Octavio Palacios!
August 14, 18:00	Båthuset	virus exaptation	Koonin & Krupovic 2018
September 11, 18:00	William's	nomenclature	Gifford et al. 2018	Welcome James Galbraith!
October 23, 15:15	EBC room 1100, B.Y.O.B.	centromere evolution	Lazar et al. 2018	Special guest and moderator Rachel O'Neill
November 20, 15:30	EBC room 1100, B.Y.O.B.	adaptive TE insertions	Guio et al. 2018	Special guest and moderator Josefa Gonzalez
December 18, 16:00	EBC room 1100, B.Y.O.B.	Best of 2018	Pick your favorite paper of 2018	Last TE Tuesday of 2018! Discussion summary upcoming.
January 29, 18:00	William's	chromosome architecture	Mizuguchi et al. 2015	Welcome Boel Olsson!
March 05, 17:00	EBC fika room in 18d second floor	weird genomes	Parfey et al. 2008	Special guest Cormac Kinsella (Suh lab alumnus)

TE Digest

The approximately monthly TE Digest is an attempt to keep up with the dozens of papers published each month on research on transposons, viruses, or other repetitive elements. The current format is an alphabetically sorted list of paper titles with links.