Sara Misiukiewicz (student)
"Cell State Wars: A New Hope for preventing T cell exhaustion via the SWI/SNF complex"
Battistello E, Hixon KA, Comstock DE, Collings CK, Chen X, Rodriguez Hernaez J, Lee S, Cervantes KS, Hinkley MM, Ntatsoulis K, Cesarano A, Hockemeyer K, Haining WN, Witkowski MT, Qi J, Tsirigos A, Perna F, Aifantis I, Kadoch C. Stepwise activities of mSWI/SNF family chromatin remodeling complexes direct T cell activation and exhaustion. Mol Cell. 2023 Mar 15:S1097-2765(23)00153-3. doi: 10.1016/j.molcel.2023.02.026. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 36944333.
Coaches: Karin Pelka, PhD & Justin Eyquem, PhD
Zachary Stensland (student)
"Smooth like butter, like cancer's gone undercover"
Zheng, X., Hou, Z., Qian, Y. et al. Tumors evade immune cytotoxicity by altering the surface topology of NK cells. Nat Immunol (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41590-023-01462-9
Coaches: Gabi Fragiadiks, PhD & Matt Spitzer, PhD