Journal Club

Fall 2025 - Epistasis

October 1: Organization and Responsible Conduct of Research Discussion
Introductions, GTP advising committee, Program expectations, Selection of Fall topic.
Disucssion: What belongs in a paper? How should we evaluate published work?

October 8: Grace Carter (Meharena Lab)
Zebell et al. (2025) Cryptic variation fuels plant phenotypic change through hierarchical epistasis. Nature 644, 984-992. [Journal] [PMC]

October 15: Jeffrey Chiu (Ren and Glass Labs)
Lin et al. (2022) Nested epistasis enhancer networs for robust genome regulation. Science 377, 1077-1085. [Journal] [PMC]

October 22: Tula Keal (Dixon Lab)
Xin et al. (2025) Recessive epistasis of a synonymous mutation confers cucumber domestication through epitranscriptomic regulation. Cell 188, 4517-4529.e15 [Journal] 

October 29: Challana Tea (Ferguson Lab)
Hebert et al. (2025) Combinatorial In Vivo Genome Editing Identifies Widespread Epistasis and an Accessible Fitness Landscape During Lung Tumorigenesis. Molecular Biology and Evolution 42, msaf02 [Journal] [PMC]

November 5: Krysten Jones (Lewis Lab)
TBA

November 12: Isabella Ruud (Chavez Lab)
TBA

November 20: Jose Sandoval (Chi Lab)
TBA

November 26: No class scheduled Thanksgiving Holiday

December 3: Camilo Londono (Zheng Lab)
TBA

December 10: Responsible Conduct of Research Discussion: TBA
TBA

Select Winter topic.

Winter 2025 - Genome Engineering / Gene Editing

January 7: Gianna Elias (Chavez Lab)
TBA

January 14: Shazreh Hassan (Bambah-Mukku Lab)
TBA 

January 21: Megan Huang (Gaulton Lab)
TBA

January 28: Molly Huang (Fisch Lab)
TBA

February 4: Rebecca Kirby (Biering Lab)
TBA

February 11: Zach Krill (Komor Lab)
TBA

February 18: Shivani Lakkaraju (Ren and Gaulton Labs)
TBA

February 25: Grace McAuley (Yeo Lab)
TBA

March 4: Terry Noblin (Yeo Lab)
TBA

March 11: Mari Williams (Telese Lab)
TBA

March 18: Responsible Conduct of Research Discussion: TBA
Professors TBA

Select Spring quarter topic.

Spring 2025 - Topic TBA

April 1: Siri Yendluri (Nizet Lab)
TBA

April 8: 
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April 15:
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April 22:
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April 29:
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May 6:
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May 13:
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May 20:
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May 27:
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June 3:
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June 10: Responsible Conduct of Research Discussion: TBA
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Summer Book Club selection: