Fall 2026
CURRENT TOPICS IN RADIATION AND CANCER BIOLOGY FRRB:6008
SCHEDULE OF PRESENTATIONS
Fall 2026
Director: Dr. Douglas Spitz
11:30 AM - 12.30 PM EVERY OTHER MONDAY IN 1180 ML
Presentations for Fall 2026
August 24, 2026
Presenter: Douglas Spitz
Paper: Kelly B, Cha M, Gremelspacher T, Martin JL, Andreis M, Maloo I, Carrizo GE, Gidley M, Stanczak MA, Apostolova P, Longo J, DeCamp LM, Ma EH, Sheldon RD, Jones RG, Sanin DE, Majumdar A, Pearce EL. Sulfur partitioning from cysteine controls T cell proliferation and effector function. Cell. 2026 Jun 11;189(12):3669-3685.e29. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2026.03.012. Epub 2026 Mar 31. PMID: 41923640; PMCID: PMC13108235.
September 7, 2026
No journal club, Labor Day
September 21, 2026
Presenter: Douglas Spitz
Paper: Yuan L, Chandel NS, Julius D. Mitochondrial activity tunes nociceptor resilience to excitotoxicity. Cell. 2025 Nov 13;188(23):6436-6452.e18. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2025.07.048. Epub 2025 Aug 26. PMID: 40865527; PMCID: PMC12445288.
October 5, 2026
No journal club, RRS Meeting
October 19, 2026
Presenter: Michael Petronek
Paper: Jain C, Essani M, Kumar R, Das NK, Singhal R, Rossiter NJ, Chen B, Huang W, Lee ZH, Solanki S, Zhang Y, Sajjakulnukit P, Zhang L, Dalal PJ, Hanna DA, Castillo C, Greenbaum HS, McCollum SE, Stoffel EM, Greenson JK, Maher LJ 3rd, Lyssiotis CA, Banerjee R, Shah YM. Iron-addicted colorectal cancers exploit heme-complex II axis to resist oxidative cell death. Cell Metab. 2026 Aug 4;38(8):1599-1617.e8. doi: 10.1016/j.cmet.2026.04.020. Epub 2026 May 27. PMID: 42202783; PMCID: PMC13401815.
November 2, 2026
Presenter: Francis Suh
Paper: Yee PP, Wei Y, Kim SY, Lu T, Chih SY, Lawson C, Tang M, Liu Z, Anderson B, Thamburaj K, Young MM, Aregawi DG, Glantz MJ, Zacharia BE, Specht CS, Wang HG, Li W. Neutrophil-induced ferroptosis promotes tumor necrosis in glioblastoma progression. Nat Commun. 2020 Oct 27;11(1):5424. doi: 10.1038/s41467-020-19193-y. PMID: 33110073; PMCID: PMC7591536.
Presenter: Joan Whittier
Paper: Sun Z, Bai F, Liang M, Hui HX, Xu H, Zhang Z, Liu X, Hu P, Lv W, Ge R, Li J. Pin1 targets phosphorylated NCOA4 for K29/K48-linked ubiquitination to suppress ferritinophagy and ferroptosis in anaplastic thyroid cancer. Cell Death Dis. 2026 Jul 1;17(1):815. doi: 10.1038/s41419-026-09058-5. PMID: 42380121; PMCID: PMC13586214.
November 30, 2026
Presenter: Roman Mogal
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