Journal Clubs (JCs) have a long history. The first JC was organised in 1875 by Sir William Osler who worked at McGill University, Montreal (Canada). By the end of the XIX century, JCs became widespread across medical communities and were often held twice a month, at which one participant would present a paper and the assembled audience would critique. Here you can read more about the history of JCs.
We keep following the traditions of nobel medical societies of late 1880s. In our PhD program, students hold a JC twice a month presenting a recently published peer-reviewed paper. JCs are held exclusively in English.

19 April 2023 | Veronica La Banca
Periostin deficiency reduces PD-1+ tumor-associated macrophage infiltration and enhances anti-PD-1 efficacy in colorectal cancer
Cell Reports 2023
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5 April 2023 | Giulia Tosetti
IRF1 governs the differential interferon-stimulated gene responses in human monocytes and macrophages by regulating chromatin accessibility
Cell Reports 2021
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29 March 2023 | Livia Concetti
Serine Catabolism by SHMT2 Is Required for Proper Mitochondrial Translation Initiation and Maintenance of Formylmethionyl-tRNAs
Molecular Cell 2018
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22 February 2023 | Vittoria Bellato
Adipose stem cells from patients with Crohn’s disease show a distinctive DNA methylation pattern
Clinical Epigentics 2020
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8 February 2023 | Cristina Fiorani
E-cadherin is a biomarker for ferroptosis sensitivity in diffuse gastric cancer
Oncogene 2023
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25 January 2023 | Manuel Rigon
Nuclear localization of mitochondrial TCA cycle enzymes modulates pluripotency via histone acetylation
Nature Communications 2022
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11 January 2023 | Francesco Moro
Abl family tyrosine kinases govern IgG extravasation in the skin in a murine pemphigus model
Nature Communications 2019
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21 December 2022 | Eleonora Mammarella
Satellite repeat transcripts modulate heterochromatin condensates and safeguard chromosome stability in mouse embryonic stem cells
Nature Communications 2022
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7 December 2022 | Erica Foffi
A predominant enhancer co-amplified with the SOX2 oncogene is necessary and sufficient for its expression in squamous cancer
Nature Communications 2021
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23 November 2022 | Silvia Buonvino
Photodynamic therapy induces autophagy mediated cell death in human colorectal cancer cells via activation of the ROS/JNK signaling pathway
Cell Death & Disease 2020
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9 November 2022 | Valentina Tullio
Cannabinoid Receptor-1 suppresses M2 macrophage polarization in colorectal cancer by downregulating EGFR
Cell Death Discovery 2022
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23 September 2022 | Lucas Bahia Nogueira
Msx1+ stem cells recruited by bioactive tissue engineering graft for bone regeneration
Nature Communications 2022
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14 September 2022 | Raffaele Caposiena
Androgen receptor blockade promotes response to BRAF/MEK-targeted therapy
Nature 2022
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7 September 2022 | Adelaide Teofani
Microbiota regulate social behaviour via stress response neurons in the brain
Nature 2021
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19 July 2022 | Emanuele Criscuolo
SARS-CoV-2 simulations go exascale to predict dramatic spike opening and cryptic pockets across the proteome
Nature 2021
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12 July 2022 | Rosalba Pecorari
cGAS–STING drives the IL-6-dependent survival of chromosomally instable cancers
Nature 2022
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