1/13/2026 Agnes
1/20/2026 Shayla
1/27/2026 Lucas
2/3/2026 Ulrik
2/10/2026 Olena
2/17/2026 Kayko
3/3/2026 Fatemeh
by Agnes Sandvik: This week’s journal club focuses on a study from Diabetologia (2025) showing that the aberrant metabolite trafficking pathways seen in SC-islets are robustly diminished following engraftment in mice.
by Fatemeh Rahmatabadi: This week’s journal club focuses on a study from Scientific Reports (2020) investigating the ERK activity in immature leukemic cells involed in clonal selection in AML
by Kaykobad Hossain
This week’s journal club focuses on a study from PNAS (2025) proposing that coordinated multi-node inhibition can achieve deep and durable pancreatic tumor regression.
by Olena Kondratska
This week’s journal club focuses on a study from Transl Psychiatry (2026) reporting on astrocytic dysfunction within the cerebellum suggesting a widespread disruption of astrocyte-mediated communication across the brain in depression.
by Ulrik: This week’s journal club focuses on a study from Nature (2026) proposing that Parkinson’s disease (PD) may involve early pathology in the enteric nervous system (ENS).
by Lucas Unger This week’s journal club focuses on a study from Science Advances (2022) describing how predator-prey evolution has generated several somatostatin analogs used in venoms.
by Agnes Sandvik: This week’s journal club focuses on a study from BMC Genomics (2024) using single-cell sequencing datasets to characterize the transcriptional identity of islets from in vitro differentiation, fetal islets, and adult islets