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 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
by Fatemeh Rahmatabadi: This week’s journal club focuses on a study from Cancer Chemother. Pharmacol. (2017) promoting Cantrixil as a promising anti-cancer agent targeting resilient cancer-stem–cell populations.
by Ulrik: This week’s journal club focuses on a study from Nature (2025) characterizing the early cellular changes that might lead to chronic traumatic encephalopathy in young athletes exposed to repetitive head impacts.
by Fatemeh Rahmatabadi: This week’s journal club focuses on a study from Drugs in R&D (2024) aiming to assess the activity of trametinib against a panel of tumor cells from patients with AML
by Agnes Sandvik: This week’s journal club focuses on a study from Front. Bioeng. Biotechnol. (2023) aiming to assess the effects of a microencapsulation system based on the use of “human elastin-like recombinamers” on SC-islets