Guidelines for Presentations:

1. Try to pick an outstanding/good paper: the science in these papers is usually strong and the consequences of the research are broad and more likely to be of interest for everyone. Plus really good science can be inspiring.
2. Give background information. First it provides everybody with a common background and vocabulary and provides a much easier understanding of the data. Second it puts the paper in perspective with what is already known on the topic. The trick here is that it does not mean to give a long and boring introduction but rather to go over the specific "tools" everybody will need to have in mind to understand the paper. Don't assume that everybody in the room has those tools.
3. You have an hour but you are going to be interrupted so it is usually wise to try to present for about 45 minutes.
4. Have fun with it.

Detailed Presentation Schedule:

October 17th, 2007	Torben Feistel	Over-expression of Leishmania major MAP kinases reveals stage-specific induction of phosphotransferase activity, I.J.P. 37 (2007) 1187–1199.
November 14th, 2007	Marco Sanchez	Novel Membrane-Bound eIF2 Kinase in the Flagellar Pocket of Trypanosoma brucei .
December 12th, 2007	Nicola Carter	Two communications on a destabilization element enabling the modulation of protein levels in Plasmodium and Toxo. Nat.Methods 12/07
January 16th, 2008	Marie-Pierre Hasne	Hydrodynamic Flow-Mediated Protein Sorting on the Cell Surface of Trypanosomes. Cell 131 11/2/07
February 13th, 2008	Jan Boitz Zarella	Hemolytic C-Type Lectin CEL-III from Sea Cucumber Expressed in Transgenic Mosquitoes Impairs Malaria Parasite Development. PLoS 12/07
March 12th, 2008	Phil Yates	Members of a Large Retroposon Family Are Determinants of Post-Transcriptional Gene Expression in Leishmania
April, 16th, 2008	Ashima Bhattacharjee	Toxoplasma Profilin Is Essential for Host Cell Invasion and TLR11-Dependent Induction of an Interleukin-12 Response
May 21st, 2008	Scott Landfear	A Haptoglobin-Hemoglobin Receptor Conveys Innate Immunity to Trypanosoma brucei in Humans
June 11th, 2008	Round Table	News & Views

by Julie Neilson