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Our Departmental Journal Club meeting will be held on Friday, April 22nd at 3:30 pm in Morton 7-660 with presentations from Dr. Panos Ntziachristos and Kyle Metz. Pizza and soda will be served. This is the last meeting of the Spring 2016 Session. We will start back up with the Fall 2016 Series in September. Please contact me at carson.nestler@northwestern.edu if you would like to present.

Dr. Panos Ntziachristos will be presenting on "Non-canonical PRC1.1 Targets Active Genes Independent of H3K27me3 and Is Essential for Leukemogenesis” Vincent van den Boom et al., Vol. 14, Issue 2, p332–346, 12 January 2016.
http://www.cell.com/cell-reports/abstract/S2211-1247(15)01458-8 

Kyle Metz will be presenting on "Sestrin2 is a leucine sensor for the mTORC1 pathway” Wolfson RL et al., Science. 2016 Jan 1;351(6268):43-8. doi: 10.1126/science.aab2674. Epub 2015 Oct 8.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4698017/pdf/nihms730426.pdf