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 | |
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| 9:00-10:00am | Registration/Breakfast |
| 10:00am - 11:30am |
Pre–Session Workshop: NIH Grant Session CSC grantsmanship 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) |
| 12:30-1:20pm | Lunch |
| 1:20-1:30pm |
Welcome & Opening Remarks |
| 1:30-2:15pm |
Keynote Inflammation and Cancer Stem Cells |
| 2:15-3:30pm |
Druggable Targets I – Session Chair: Claudia Petritsch Cancer Stem Cells in BRAF Mutated Brain Tumor Resistance to Molecular Targeted Therapy Targeting clonal heterogeneity in treatment-refractory Glioblastoma with novel and empiric immunotherapies Therapy Resistance Mechanisms in AML/MDS stem cells |
| 3:30-3:40pm | Break |
| 3:40-4:40pm |
Druggable Targets II – Session Chair: Claudia Petritsch Huiping Liu (Northwestern) Ofer Reizes (Case Comprehensive Cancer Center) Short talk: Rokana Taftaf |
| 4:40-4:50pm | Break |
| 4:50-7:00pm |
Developmental - Session Chair: Mark Jackson Functional Dissection of Stem Cell Lineage Plasticity in the Skin Epithelia EMT-Induced Stemness and Cellular Plasticity in Metastasis and Chemoresistance Senthil Muthuswamy (Harvard Medical School, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center) Ali Shilatifard (Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine) Short talks: Isobel Fetter, Jing Hao, Kelsey Polak |
| 7:00-8:30pm | Opening Reception and Posters Cocktails and heavy hors d’oeuvres |
| Tuesday, July 12, 2022 | |
| 8:00 - 9:00am |
Breakfast |
| 9:00-10:25am |
Metabolism - Session Chair: Quintin Pan Chris Hine (Case Comprehensive Cancer Center) Mark Brown (Case Comprehensive Cancer Center) Abishek Chakraborty (Case Comprehensive Cancer Center) Short talk: Loic Deleyrolle |
| 10:25-10:35am | Break |
| 10:35-11:20am |
Keynote Metabolic Targeting of Breast Cancer Stem Cells |
| 11:20am-12:15pm |
Lunch Session (Sponsored by Jackson Laboratories) Speaker: Jiwon Yang |
| 12:15-2:10pm |
Radioresistance - Session Chair: Espey/Yu Daniel Wahl (Michigan) Jacob Scott (Case Comprehensive Cancer Center) Reprogramming Tumor-Associated Macrophages to Target Glioma Stem Cells Maria Castro (University of Michigan) Panel Discussion |
| 2:10-2:20pm | Break |
| 2:20-4:00pm |
Immune Interaction I - Session Chair: Jeff Rosen CSCs and the Tumor Immune Microenvironment Targeting Cancer Stem Cells Through it Microenvironment Myeloid Cells in Perivascular Niche of Glioblastoma Sex Differences in Immune Response Underlies Glioblastoma Growth and Immunotherapy Efficacy |
| 4:00-4:10pm | Break |
| 4:10-5:00pm |
Immune Interaction II - Session Chair: Jeff Rosen Short talks: Juyeun Lee Praj Rajappa Rashmi Bharti Amanda Johnson Duy Nuygen |
| 5:00-5:45pm | Free time; prepare for transportation to Rock Hall |
| 6:00pm | Rock & Roll Hall of Fame |
| Wednesday, July 13, 2022 | |
| 8:00 - 9:00am |
Breakfast |
| 9:00-10:50am |
Microenvironment - Session Chair: Huiping Liu The Role of Mesothelial Cells in Promoting the Ovarian Cancer Stem Cell Phenotype The Role of Hypoxia in Breast Cancer Metastasis Min Yu Jennifer Yu (Case Comprehensive Cancer Center) Short talk: Gen-Sheng Feng |
| 10:50am-12:30pm |
Young Investigator Award Presentations and Lunch (Sponsored by Tango Therapeutics) Awardees: Defne Bayik, Dionysios Watson, Nurmaa Dashzeveg |
| 12:30-1:55pm |
Epigenetic Regulation - Session Chair: Angela Ting Prostate cancer stem cells in therapy resistance and metastasis Cancer Stem Cell Epigenetic States - Role for Transcription Factor Expression Repertoire Angela Ting (Case Comprehensive Cancer Center) Short talk: Atique Ahmed |