Journal Club

Tuesdays from 12:30 - 1:50 in Foege Auditorium (S 060)

Speakers must post references for their Journal Club by the Monday preceding their talk. References should be given to Brian Giebel (bgiebel (at) u.washington.edu) to be posted on this page. If you are unable to speak at the appointed time, please arrange to change dates with someone else (please notify Brian when you make changes). If you can't make a switch, please contact Stan Gartler.

References are posted as they are received. Please be sure to check the current and past schedules to make sure your proposed article hasn't already been reserved or previously presented by another speaker.

Follow this link for a listing of past Journal Club references.

Winter Quarter

2/7 - Tzitziki Lemus-Vergara, Aaron Miller

Tzitziki Lemus-Vergara
Drosophila Microbiome Modulates Host Developmental and Metabolic Homeostasis via Insulin Signaling. Seung Chul Shin, Sung-Hee Kim, Hyejin You, Boram Kim, Aeri C. Kim, et al. Science 4  2011:334  (6056), 670-674.

Aaron Miller
Metagenomic analysis of a permafrost microbial community reveals a rapid response to thaw. Rachel Mackelprang, Mark P. Waldrop, Kristen M. DeAngelis, Maude M. David, Krystle L. Chavarria, Steven J. Blazewicz, Edward M. Rubin & Janet K. Jansson. Nature 480, 368–371 (15 December 2011). doi:10.1038/nature10576

2/14 - Leslie Kim, Benjamin Vernot

Leslie Kim
Wongsrikeao P et al. (2011) Antiviral restriction factor transgenesis in the domestic cat. Nature Methods 8, 853-9.

2/21 - Anna Brosius, Nik Krumm

Anna Brosius
Predicting mutation outcome from early stochastic variation in genetic interaction partners, Burga et al., Nature, 2011

Fitness Trade-Offs and Environmentally Induced Mutation Buffering in Isogenic C. elegans, Casanueva et al., Science, 2012

2/28 - Alejandro Wolf-Yadlin, Xander Nuttle

3/6 - Joe Hiatt, Keolu Fox

Keolu Fox
The Origin of the Haitian Cholera Outbreak Strain
K. Waldor. N Engl J Med 2011; 364:33-42

Joe Hiatt
Multi-Input RNAi-Based Logic Circuit for Identification of Specific Cancer Cells. Zhen Xie, Liliana Wroblewska, Laura Prochazka, Ron Weiss and Yaakov Benenson. Science 333(6047):1307-1311 (2011)

Spring Quarter

3/27 - Jacob Kitzman, Alessandra Sullivan

Jacob Kitzman

Karreth et al. (2011). In Vivo Identification of Tumor- Suppressive PTEN ceRNAs in an Oncogenic BRAF-Induced Mouse Model of Melanoma, Cell 147, 382-395

Sumazin et al. (2011). An Extensive MicroRNA-Mediated Network of RNA-RNA Interactions Regulates Established Oncogenic Pathways in Glioblastoma, Cell 147, 370-381

4/3 - Katrina Claw, William Edelman

4/10 - Blake Hovde, Sharon Greenblum

4/17 - Matt Maurano, Akash Kumar

4/24 - Max Press, Nate Peters

5/1 - Joe Felsenstein, David Young

5/8 - Stephanie Battle, Michael Duyzend

5/15 - Rachel Gittelman, Elyse Hope

5/22 - Alex Mason, Jorgen Nelson

5/29 - Matthew Snyder, Sonia Ting