The Journal Club is a tool that critically discusses the best scientific works with a potential impact on your research or your training as a student in Biotechnology. To assess whether a paper is of quality, the first, but not the only, indicator, is the impact factor (IF) of the journal on which that work was published.

Scientific journals such as Cell *, JCB, PNAS, Nature *, PLoS, and Science* belong to top-level journals (including * subjournals).

Having to choose an article to present at the next Journal Club, I suggest you look for articles with a clear hypothesis and a rigorous sequence of molecular experiments that support or refute each point before moving on to the next one. Avoid articles that are merely descriptive of a phenomenon but that do not give a molecular explanation.

The paper must also be very recent, i.e. no more than 1 year old. The more recent it is, the better it is.

It should really represent a step forward in the field of biotechnology: a new technology, a new application, a new therapy.

It should be exciting; something you want to tell your friends and colleagues over lunch or a beer.

We look for 8 pairs of students willing to organize the 8 events. Contact the teacher to register and to agree on the article (paper) to be submitted

In 2020, the Journal Club will take place in the second semester on the Google Meet platform

The hot topic for 2020 is COVID-19: discovery and the development of diagnostics, therapies and vaccines