BMS Journal Club

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 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 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