Current Topics in Free Radical Biology and Medicine
The University of Iowa
Fall 2024; FRRB:6006
Every Other Monday, 11:30 am-12:30 pm
Room: B180 Med Labs

Scheduled Seminars for Fall 2024:

September 2, 2024

No journal club; Labor Day

September 12, 2024

No journal class; Radiation Research Society meeting

September 30, 2024

Presenter: Douglas Spitz

Paper: Nandi I, Ji L, Smith HW, Avizonis D, Papavasiliou V, Lavoie C, Pacis A, Attalla S, Sanguin-Gendreau V, Muller WJ. Targeting fatty acid oxidation enhances response to HER2-targeted therapy. Nat Commun. 2024 Aug 3;15(1):6587. doi: 10.1038/s41467-024-50998-3. PMID: 39097623; PMCID: PMC11297952.

October 14, 2024

Presenter: Garry Buettner

Paper: Froidevaux P, Grilj V, Bailat C, Geyer WR, Bochud F, Vozenin MC. FLASH irradiation does not induce lipid peroxidation in lipids micelles and liposomes. Rad Phys Chem. 2023 April; 205:110733. doi: 10.1016/j.radphyschem.2022.110733.

October 28, 2024

Presenter: Kyle Current

Paper: Chen Y, Guo X, Zeng Y, Mo X, Hong S, He H, Li J, Fatima S, Liu Q. Oxidative stress induces mitochondrial iron overload and ferroptotic cell death. Sci Rep. 2023 Sep 19;13(1):15515. doi: 10.1038/s41598-023-42760-4. PMID: 37726294; PMCID: PMC10509277.

November 11, 2024

Presenter: Roman Mogal

Paper: Raninga PV, He Y, Datta KK, Lu X, Maheshwari UR, Venkat P, Mayoh C, Gowda H, Kalimutho M, Hooper JD, Khanna KK. Combined thioredoxin reductase and glutaminase inhibition exerts synergistic anti-tumor activity in MYC-high high-grade serous ovarian carcinoma. Mol Ther. 2023 Mar 1;31(3):729-743. doi: 10.1016/j.ymthe.2022.12.011. Epub 2022 Dec 21. PMID: 36560881; PMCID: PMC10014232.

November 25, 2024

No journal club; Thanksgiving Break

December 9, 2024

Presenter: Akshaya Warrier

Paper: Hou GX, Liu PP, Zhang S, Yang M, Liao J, Yang J, Hu Y, Jiang WQ, Wen S, Huang P. Elimination of stem-like cancer cell side-population by auranofin through modulation of ROS and glycolysis. Cell Death Dis. 2018 Jan 24;9(2):89. doi: 10.1038/s41419-017-0159-4. PMID: 29367724; PMCID: PMC5833411.