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The Youth Journal Club Project
April 2026 Meeting
Facilitating Neuron-Specific Genetic Manipulations in Drosophila melanogaster Using a Split GAL4 Repressor
Dolan, M.-J., Luan, H., Shropshire, W. C., Sutcliffe, B., Cocanougher, B., Scott, R. L., Frechter, S., Zlatic, M., Jefferis, G. S. X. E., & White, B. H. (2017).
Genetics, 206(2), 775–784.
https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.116.199687
May 2026 Meeting
The PTP4A3 inhibitor KVX-053 reduces Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) virulence, inflammation, and development of acute lung injury in K18-hACE2 mice
Colunga-Biancatelli, R. M. L., Solopov, P. A., Woodson, C. M., Allen, I. C., Akhrymuk, I., Akhrymuk, M., Heath, B. N., Ivester, H. M., Day, T., Austin, D. E., Kehn-Hall, K., Lazo, J. S., Sharlow, E. R., & Catravas, J. D. (2025).
Respiratory Research, 26(1), 299.
https://doi.org/10.1186/s12931-025-03349-9
June 2026 Meeting
Inception of a false memory by optogenetic manipulation of a hippocampal memory engram
Liu, X., Ramirez, S., & Tonegawa, S. (2013).
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 369(1633), 20130142–20130142.
https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2013.0142
July 2026 Meeting
Development and validation of an autonomous artificial intelligence agent for clinical decision-making in oncology
Ferber, D., El Nahhas, O. S. M., Wölflein, G., Wiest, I. C., Clusmann, J., Leßmann, M.-E., Foersch, S., Lammert, J., Tschochohei, M., Jäger, D., Salto-Tellez, M., Schultz, N., Truhn, D., & Kather, J. N. (2025).
Nature Cancer. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43018-025-00991-6
doi: 10.1038/s43018-025-00991-6
MedSAM explained
August 2026 Meeting
Targeted expression of shibire(ts) and semaphorin 1a reveals critical periods for synapse formation in the giant fiber of Drosophila
Murphey, R. K., Froggett, S. J., Caruccio, P., Shan-Crofts, X., Kitamoto, T., & Godenschwege, T. A. (2003).
Development (Cambridge, England), 130(16), 3671–3682.
doi: 10.1242/dev.00598. PMID: 12835384.
September 2026 Meeting
​Continuous vs Intermittent Postoperative Vital Sign Monitoring
A Cluster Randomized Crossover Trial
Khanna, A. K., O'Connell, N. S., Saha, A. K., Hicks, M. H., Weller, R. S., Harris, L., Cusson, B. D., Faris, A., Huffman, C. S., Segal, S., Wells, B. J., Kirkendall, E. S., & Sessler, D. I. (2026).
JAMA Network Open, 9(3), e263290.
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​doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2026.3290
Click here to learn about the cluster randomized controlled trial and why it is relevant to research in surgery
Click here to learn about the cluster randomized crossover trial
October 2026 Meeting
O-GlcNAc Signaling Orchestrates the Regenerative Response to Neuronal Injury in Caenorhabditis elegans
Taub D, Awal M, Gabel C. (2018).
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Cell Reports, 24, 1931-1938.e3
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doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2018.07.078.
Click here to learn about O-GlcNAc (a reversible enzymatic post-translational modification that is found on serine and threonine residues of nucleocytoplasmic proteins)
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