Section outline

  • Paper discussions will include description of figure panels included in the article by the students, who will be called by the class lead to provide context, describe the results in each figure, discuss the interpretation and implications of the results, suggest additional experiments or controls that would expand the implications of the results, and criticize the methodology, presentation, and description of the results in the paper. The main goal of this activity is to “act as peer-reviewers” and train critical thinking.

    We will discuss the following paper:
    Barriga FM, Tsanov KM, Ho YJ, Sohail N, Zhang A, Baslan T, Wuest AN, Del Priore I, Meškauskaitė B, Livshits G, Alonso-Curbelo D, Simon J, Chaves-Perez A, Bar-Sagi D, Iacobuzio-Donahue CA, Notta F, Chaligne R, Sharma R, Pe'er D, Lowe SW. MACHETE identifies interferon-encompassing chromosome 9p21.3 deletions as mediators of immune evasion and metastasis. Nat Cancer. 2022 Nov;3(11):1367-1385. doi: 10.1038/s43018-022-00443-5. Epub 2022 Nov 7. PMID: 36344707; PMCID: PMC9701143.

    The uploaded lectures should be watched before the class. If you have any questions from these lectures, please, bring them to the in person class.