Alexis Doyle is an MD student at the Stanford School of Medicine. Before starting medical school, she worked at the Mississippi State Department of Health on a maternal health project and completed graduate studies in Medical Anthropology and Public Policy as a Rhodes Scholar. Alexis attended the University of Notre Dame as an undergraduate, where she majored in biology and peace studies and wrote her thesis on bipartisan approaches to reproductive health policy. She is passionate about collaborating with others to improve the health outcomes of the underserved.

We talked about her journey, ultra marathon, peace studies, reproductive health, and more.

Benjamin Gibbs is a MD-PhD student at the University of Kansas School of Medicine. He is currently working on his PhD in Pathology focusing on drug development for ovarian cancers. He graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a BS in chemistry and a minor in physics. Benjamin has been researching cancer since 2012. He is passionate about the pursuit of improved outcomes for those who have been diagnosed with cancer through the development of new therapies and improved diagnostic tools.

Ben and I will go over a paper titled: An RNA vaccine drives immunity in checkpoint-inhibitor-treated melanoma.

Samantha Scharenberg is a second year MD-PhD student at Stanford University. She did her undergraduate at Stanford. There, she studied lysosomal storage diseases at the laboratory of Dr Matthew Porteus (the legend).

We talked about science and her research: lysosomal storage diseases; the use of genome-editing technologies, specifically CRISPR/Cas9 to engineer a patient's own blood stem cells as a curative therapy for their genetic disease; and challenges that remain in brining genome-editing to the clinic and hopeful visions for future applications of genome-editing technologies. We also talked about her journey, rock climbing, career, and more.

Santiago Enrique Sanchez is a Venezuelan second-year medical student and aspiring physician scientist at Stanford Medical School. He is an alumnus of the University of Texas at Austin, where he studied Plan II Honors and Biochemistry as a Health Science Scholar. He went on to do a Masters of Philosophy in Chemistry at Cambridge University under Professor Sir David Klenerman. He is interested in oncology, global health, health disparities in cancer, medical humanities, and philosophy of science.

We talked about his journey, his research (physics, biophysics, bio optics, and liver cancer), his medical school life, and more.

Dr Justin Huang is an Institute Researcher in the Computational Biology group at MD Anderson Cancer Center's TRACTION Platform. His work focuses on bioinformatic infrastructure and computational analysis workflow development as well as computationally-aided discovery and translation of novel cancer targets. Dr Huang received his PhD in Bioinformatics and Systems Biology from the University of California, San Diego under the mentorship of Dr Trey Ideker where his thesis focused on the evaluation and application of biological networks to inform on biological hypotheses. While Justin is excited about bioinformatics and the possibilities computational biology can offer, he is also interested in science and mentorship in general.

We talk about: graduate school experience, early research career experience, network biology, trends in computational biology, his CA-to-TX transition, and more.

You can follow him on Twitter @huangger.

Disclaimer: This chat is not scripted or edited. Views presented here are the opinion of Dr Justin Huang alone and should not be taken to represent the views of the TRACTION Platform or MD Anderson.

We will go over a paper titled: Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: From Chronic Fatigue to More Specific Syndromes.

I have read the paper, filtered out the noise, and kept the good points for you.

We will go over a paper titled: Analyzing the Mycobacterium tuberculosis immune response by T-cell receptor clustering with GLIPH2 and genome-wide antigen screening.

I have read the paper, filtered out the noise, and kept the good points for you.

We will go over a paper titled: Variation in the Human Immune System Is Largely Driven by Non-Heritable Influences.

I have read the paper, filtered out the noise, and kept the good points for you.

At the end, we will summarize the paper into few sentences.

We will go over a paper titled: Systems immunology: just getting started.

I have read the paper, filtered out the noise, and kept the good points for you.

We will read a paper titled: A Prescription for Human Immunology.

This is my first time reading this paper. Together, we read, summarize, and analyze few paragraphs at a time. Let's understand it. Let's identify its essence. Finally, in the end, let's try to capture the entire paper with only few sentences.