Wikipedia talk:USEP/Courses/JHU MolBio Ogg SP14/Group 82A

Lisa, Your contributions look great. We overlapped on a lot of the references, so I didn't modify much off of your original references and bullet points. Please take a look at the 4 main sections, I have added in a very basic outline, mostly just trying to organize my thoughts as I am reading papers - perhaps it will become too detailed of an approach later but for these beginning stages I think it helps (at least for me!) to try and keep it all organized - what are your thoughts? Citations will be the next thing I work on!. Jhayes21 (talk) 04:07, 12 March 2014 (UTC)

Julia, I added some articles I found that might be useful to your sandbox with a few quick bullet points. For the key points, I thought of 4 major areas that I think should be in the article: what paraptosis is, what separates it from other forms of cell death, examples of paraptosis, and possible future applications. There could be more, but those were the general points I thought we should address. Lisawisa (talk) 04:53, 11 March 2014 (UTC)

Hi Lisa,

Just wanted to let you know that I have started the article work on my sandbox page and have copied over the unit 5 resources. Today I am planning on finding more articles (adding bullet points) and beginning the article outline. Jhayes21 (talk) 15:44, 10 March 2014 (UTC)

Hey Lisa,

Just wanted to check-in and see if you had any preferences for the article? I am open to any of the topics we have written about so far, or I can easily start researching additional ones - Just let me know :) Jhayes21 (talk) 21:38, 27 February 2014 (UTC)


 * Hey Julia, I don't really have any preference either, I was just going to go through and see which one seemed to have the most information available. Lisawisa (talk) 20:23, 28 February 2014 (UTC)

Hey Lisa,

I just finished going through various resources and I guess I am leaning toward paraptosis. A couple of reasons were when searching JHU library resources the term paraptosis didn't result in thousands and/or hundreds of resources, the resources available to us seem well focused but not overly limited. Another factor I was considering was the wikipedia articles currently available on related subjects, such as apoptosis, caspase, necrosis, programmed cell death are well developed and could be great linking sources. Lastly, paraptosis seems to be a relatively recent pathway studied, and the effect of this pathway is currently being uncovered on nervous tissue, neurodegenerative diseases, and different types of cancers — so it seems that this topic/page may have lots of potential in the future as more is medically understood.

Again, no pressure, I am still totally open to another topic! These were just a few of my observations - Did you have any conclusions as you went through the available information? Jhayes21 (talk) 19:58, 3 March 2014 (UTC)


 * I think paraptosis is a great choice. The only other one I was thinking about was bacteriolysis because I'm into microbes (weird, I know) and I was really surprised that it didn't have an article already. But it's such a broad topic that I was worried it could be too much for two people to write a sufficient article in a limited time. I've never heard of paraptosis before, but it seems pretty interesting. I've found a couple articles about how it's the type of cell death caused by some cancer drugs, so it obviously has medical applications. I'll edit the article table and claim it :) Lisawisa (talk) 03:13, 4 March 2014 (UTC)

Julia, I made a quick section for our article selection rationale. Feel free to edit/add to it as you see fit Lisawisa (talk) 06:39, 4 March 2014 (UTC)