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2022 Conference Agenda

Please note we are in the process of finalizing the agenda; some session titles and speakers will be updated in the coming days!

Monday, July 11, 2022
9:00-10:00am	Registration/Breakfast
10:00am - 11:30am	Pre–Session Workshop: NIH Grant Session CSC grantsmanship Michael Graham Espey (National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health) Senthil Muthuswamy (Harvard Medical School, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center)
11:30am-12:30pm	Pre–Session Workshop: Meet the Editors / Networking Session / Lunch Natalie Cain (Cell Reports) Bailee Sliker (Cancer Discovery)
12:30-1:20pm	Lunch
1:20-1:30pm	Welcome & Opening Remarks
1:30-2:15pm	Keynote Inflammation and Cancer Stem Cells Jenny Chang (Houston Methodist, Weill Cornell Medical College)
2:15-3:50pm	Druggable Targets – Session Chair: Claudia Petritsch Claudia Katharina Petritsch (Stanford) Targeting clonal heterogeneity in treatment-refractory Glioblastoma with novel and empiric immunotherapies Sheila Singh (McMaster University) Therapy Resistance Mechanisms in AML/MDS stem cells Chris Park (NYU Langone Health) Short Talks - 10 minutes each
3:50-4:00pm	Break
4:00-6:00pm	Developmental - Session Chair: Geoff Wahl Cell State Plasticity and Cancer Geoff Wahl (The Salk Institute for Biological Studies) Functional Dissection of Stem Cell Lineage Plasticity in the Skin Epithelia Yejing Ge (MD Anderson Cancer Center) Sendurai Mani (MD Anderson Cancer Center Ali Shilatifard (Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine) Short Talks - 10 minutes each
6:00 - 7:30pm	Opening Reception and Posters Cocktails and heavy hors d’oeuvres

Tuesday, July 12, 2022
8:00 - 9:00am	Breakfast
9:00-10:50am	Metabolism - Session Chair: Quintin Pan Metabolic Regulation of Cell Fate Decisions Lydia Finley (MSKCC) Chris Hine (Case Comprehensive Cancer Center) Mark Brown (Case Comprehensive Cancer Center) Abishek Chakraborty (Case Comprehensive Cancer Center) Short Talks - 10 minutes each
10:50-11:00am	Break
11:00 - 11:45 am	Keynote Metabolic Targeting of Breast Cancer Stem Cells Max Wicha (University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center)
11:45am - 12:15pm	Lunch Session
12:15-2:05pm	Radioresistance - Session Chair: Espey/Yu Daniel Wahl (Michigan) Jacob Scott (Case Comprehensive Cancer Center) Reprogramming Tumor-Associated Macrophages to Target Glioma Stem Cells Shideng Bao (Case Comprehensive Cancer Center) Short Talks - 10 minutes each Panel Discussion
2:05 - 2:15pm	Break
2:15-4:05pm	Epigenetic Regulation - Session Chair: Angela Ting Epigenetic Combinations for Targeting Ovarian Cancer Stem Cells Ken Nephew (Indiana University School of Medicine; IU Simon Comprehensive Cancer Center) Prostate cancer stem cells in therapy resistance and metastasis Dean Tang (Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center) Cancer Stem Cell Epigenetic States - Role for Transcription Factor Expression Repertoire Hari Easwaran (Johns Hopkins University) Angela Ting (Case Comprehensive Cancer Center) Short Talks - 10 minutes each
4:05 - 5:45pm	Free time
6:00pm	Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

Wednesday, July 13, 2022
8:00 - 9:00am	Breakfast
9:00 - 10:50am	Microenvironment The Role of Mesothelial Cells in Promoting the Ovarian Cancer Stem Cell Phenotype Erinn Rankin (Stanford) The Role of Hypoxia in Breast Cancer Metastasis Daniele Gilkes (Johns Hopkins University) Min Yu Jennifer Yu (Case Comprehensive Cancer Center Short Talks - 10 minutes each
10:50am - 12:30pm	Lunch and Young Investigator Award Presentations

1:15 - 3:05pm	Immune Interaction - Session Chair: Jeff Rosen CSCs and the Tumor Immune Microenvironment Jeff Rosen (Baylor College of Medicine) Alan Wang (MD Anderson Cancer Center) Myeloid Cells in Perivascular Niche of Glioblastoma Delores Hambardzumyan (Icahn School of Medicine) Justin Lathia (Case Comprehensive Cancer Center) Short Talks - 10 minutes each