2022-23 Journal Club Schedule
Journal Club Chairs: Bruce Wang, MD and Tien Peng, MD
Day/Time: Thursdays, 12:00-1:00 p.m. except as noted
Location:In person at N-225 on the Parnassus campus, with a livestream/Zoom option as well. The Zoom link will be sent out with the email reminder sent to the BMS listservs. Please contact Demian Sainz if you are not already on one of our listservs.
Links to previous livestreams and recorded video are in the sidebar.
See the BMS Journal Club Archives in the right sidebar for past journal club descriptions and recordings.
September 7, 2023
Peter Bruno (faculty)
"Vaccine-boosting improves CAR-T therapy and host immune response"
L. Ma, et al., Vaccine-boosted CAR T crosstalk with host immunity to reject tumors with antigen heterogeneity. Cell 186, 3148-3165.e20 (2023).
Isabelle Young (student)
"Scribble mis-localization induces adaptive resistance to KRASG12C inhibitors"
Adachi Y, Kimura R, Hirade K, et al. Scribble mis-localization induces adaptive resistance to KRAS G12C inhibitors through feedback activation of MAPK signaling mediated by YAP-induced MRAS. Nat Cancer. 2023;4(6):829-843. doi:10.1038/s43018-023-00575-2
Coaches: Jonathan Ostrem, MD, PhD & Michael Waterfield, MD, PhD
September 14, 2023
Max Pass (student)
Meiser, P. et al. A distinct stimulatory cDC1 subpopulation amplifies CD8+ T cell responses in tumors for protective anti-cancer immunity. Cancer Cell 0, (2023).
Coaches: Matt Spitzer, PhD & Max Krummel, PhD
September 21, 2023
Roarke Kamber (faculty)
"Fuse and conquer: how giant macrophages protect the diseased liver"
Peiseler, M., Araujo David, et al., 2023. Kupffer cell–like syncytia replenish resident macrophage function in the fibrotic liver. Science, 381(6662), p.eabq5202.
Tori Tran (student)
"Context clues: Cotransfer of antigen and contextual information harmonizes peripheral and lymph node conventional dendritic cell activation"
Pirillo C, Al Khalidi S, Sims A, Devlin R, Zhao H, Pinto R, Jasim S, Shearer PA, Shergold AL, Donnelly H, Bravo-Blas A, Loney C, Perona-Wright G, Hutchinson E, Roberts EW. Cotransfer of antigen and contextual information harmonizes peripheral and lymph node conventional dendritic cell activation. Sci Immunol. 2023 Jul 21;8(85):eadg8249. doi: 10.1126/sciimmunol.adg8249. Epub 2023 Jul 21. PMID: 37478193.
Coaches: Tiffany Scharschmidt, MD & Ari Molofsky, MD, PhD
September 28, 2023
Elliott Sherr (faculty)
"Perhaps the first across the finish line"
Neul JL, et al. Trofinetide for the treatment of Rett syndrome: a randomized phase 3 study. Nat Med. 2023 Jun;29(6):1468-1475. doi: 10.1038/s41591-023-02398-1. Epub 2023 Jun 8.PMID: 37291210
Isabel Shen (student)
TBD
Ortiz-Muñoz, G., Brown, M., Carbone, C.B. et al. In situ tumour arrays reveal early environmental control of cancer immunity. Nature 618, 827–833 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06132-2
Coaches: Gabi Fragiadakis, PhD & Oscar Aguilar Alfaro, PhD
October 5, 2023
Mingyang Ma (student)
"How an anxious heart talks to the brain"
Hsueh, B., Chen, R., Jo, Y. et al. Cardiogenic control of affective behavioural state. Nature 615, 292–299 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-05748-8
Coaches: Ritchie Chen, PhD, MSc, BS & Guo Huang, PhD
October 12, 2023
Sara Suliman (faculty)
TBD
Madison Lotstein (student)
TBD
Chen, S., Zhu, B., Huang, S. et al. Integration of spatial and single-cell data across modalities with weakly linked features. Nat Biotechnol (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41587-023-01935-0
Coaches: Gabi Fragiadakis, PhD & Alexis Combes, PhD
October 19, 2023
Michael Alexanian (faculty)
TBD
Gary Chan (student)
TBD
Coaches: Joe Costello, PhD & Hideho Okada, MD, PhD
October 26, 2023
Kelsey Collins (faculty)
TBD
Rukman Thota (student)
TBD
November 2, 2023
Isha Jain (faculty)
TBD
Zachary Stensland (student)
TBD
November 9, 2023
Elphege Nora (faculty)
TBD
Jing Chung (student)
TBD
November 16, 2023
Harish Vasudevan (faculty)
TBD
Khang Nguyen (student)
TBD
November 30, 2023
David Solomon (faculty)
TBD
McKenzie Daanen (student)
TBD
December 7, 2023
Alexis Combes (faculty)
TBD
Jayden Ross (student)
TBD
December 14, 2023
David Raleigh (faculty)
TBD
Zachary Holmes (student)
TBD
January 11, 2024
Maddie Urbanek (student)
TBD
Sara Misiukiewicz (student)
TBD
January 18, 2024
Julia McBride (student)
TBD
Celeste Garza (student)
TBD
January 25, 2024
Madeline McCanne (student)
TBD
Sangeetha Ramachandran (student)
TBD
February 1, 2024
Jaela Caston (student)
TBD
Jim Asaki (student)
TBD
February 8, 2024
Gabriella Kimmerly (student)
TBD
Sophia Nelson (student)
TBD
February 15, 2024
Sarah Castro (student)
TBD
Ivan Chavez (student)
TBD
February 22, 2024
Minna Apostolova (student)
TBD
Manon Miller (student)
TBD
February 29, 2024
Clara Kochendoerfer (student)
TBD
Eva Gillis-Buck (student)
TBD
March 7, 2024
Ankit Salhotra (student)
TBD
Claire Havig (student)
TBD
March 14, 2024
Rachel Prorok (student)
TBD
Nikhita Kirthivasan (student)
TBD
March 21, 2024
Vickie Bowcut (student)
TBD
Serena Lu (student)
TBD
March 28, 2024
Riana Hunter (student)
TBD
Mingyang Ma (student)
TBD
April 4, 2024
Andrew Pan (student)
TBD
Courtney Tamaki (student)
TBD
April 11, 2024
Lily Zemelko (student)
TBD
Tasha Tsao (student)
TBD
April 18, 2024
Jose Gomez (student)
TBD
Kira Downey (student)
TBD
April 25, 2024
Charles Shen (student)
TBD
Trishna Patel (student)
TBD
May 2, 2024
Karla DeLucas (student)
TBD
Rebecca Chu (student)
TBD
May 9, 2024
Harnoor Virk (student)
TBD
Mackenzie Roberts (student)
TBD
May 16, 2024
Lauren Tabor (student)
TBD
Joy Okoro (student)
TBD
May 23, 2024
Cassie Martinez (student)
TBD
Zachary Holmes (student)
TBD