Feb 7 12:30-2:00 PM, N-721， Parnassus, qPCR seminar

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Dear friends and colleagues,

Just last year and early this year, leading scientific journals like "Nature" and "Science" published several editorials, indicating that the journals will make serious moves to ensure the rigorousness and reproducibility of the research to be published in these journals:

04/23/2013 "Nature" editorial *"Announcement: Reducing our
Irreproducibility" *
http://www.nature.com/news/announcement-reducing-our-irreproducibility-1.12852
05/2013 "Nature Immunology" editorial *"Raising Standards"*
http://www.nature.com/ni/journal/v14/n5/full/ni.2603.html
01/17/2014 Science editorial *"Reproducibility"*
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/343/6168/229.full

"qPCR is probably the most widely used technique in molecular biology", as a recent "Nature Method" commentary writes ("The need for transparency and good practice in the qPCR literature" http://www.nature.com/nmeth/journal/v10/n11/full/nmeth.2697.html), yet "In reality, it is very easy to publish qPCR results that are meaningless". The commentary calls for the implementation of the Minimum Information for Publication of Real-Time PCR Experiments (MIQE) guidelines. To help you to get familiarized with the MIQE guidelines, we are very pleased to host two seminars "Applying the MIQE guidelines for qPCR"  to be held in both Mission Bay and Parnassus campuses. The seminars will be given and the following discussion will be led by Dr. Gregory Shipley, one of the
co-authors of the "Nature Method" commentary and the MIQE guidelines as well.

We look forward to seeing you at these very informative seminars.

Zhiyong Yang
Association of Chinese Students and Scholars at UCSF