Cancer Biology, Informatics & Omics Annual Retreat

9:00am - 9:30am

Breakfast and poster setup

9:30am - 9:40am

One minute introductions to posters by trainees

9:40am - 10:55am

Poster presentations

11:00am - 11:40am

Keynote:

Dr. Anna-Maria Hays Putnam
Vice President, Development and Manufacturing
Halozyme

11:40am - 12:20pm

Keynote:

Dr. Olivier Harismendy
Vice President, Translational Data Science and Computational Biology
Zentalis
Former Associate Professor at UC San Diego

12:20pm - 1:10pm

Lunch

1:10pm - 1:50pm

Distinguished Talks:

Dr. Richard Kolodner
Distinguished Professor
UC San Diego
Former Director of LICR and UCSD; Formerly Professor at Harvard Medical School

2:00pm - 3:00pm

Research Rigor and Reproductibility Workshop

9:00am - 11:00am

Flash (1 min) Introduction of Posters and Presentation of Posters by Trainees and Trainee Candidates

11:00am - 11:30am

Keynote:

“Measuring Single Cell Clonal Dynamics in Human Blood using Coalescent Point Processes”

Kathleen Curtius, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine
UC San Diego

11:30am - 12:00pm

Keynote:

“Circular Extrachromosomal DNA as a New Target in Childhood Cancers”

Lukas Chavez, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Sanford Burnham Prebys.

12:00pm - 1:15pm

Lunch

1:15pm - 2:00pm

Keynote:

“Enhancing Genome and Transcriptome Engineering: New Approaches, New Challenges”

Prashant Mali, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Bioengineering
UC San Diego

1:30-2:00

Trainee Introductions (UCSD and UCD): One minute per trainee, no slides.

2:00-2:45

Keynote:

Jill Mesirov, PhD, Professor of Medicine, Associate Vice Chancellor for Computational Health Sciences, UCSD

"From Mathematics to Cancer Genomics"

2:45-3:15

Distinguished Alumni Talks:

Peter Ly, PhD, Assistant Professor, UT Southwestern

"My Career Path in Interrogating Cancer Genome Instability"

Aaron Wecksler, PhD, Scientist, Genentech

"My Path from Academics to Industry"

3:15-3:45

Trainee Discussions with Drs. Ly and Wecksler

3:45-4:30

Panel Discussion Led by:

Dr. Kelly Frazer, PhD, Professor of Pediatrics, Director of Institute for Genomic Medicine, UCSD

"Genomic Biology Research from Biotech to Academia"

Dr. Robert Rickert, PhD, Senior Vice President, Chief Scientific Officer, Cancer Immunology, Pfizer Oncology

"Immunology Research from Academia to Pharma"

9-10:30

Flash (1 min) Introduction of Posters and Presentation of Posters by Trainees

10:30-11

Geoff Wahl, PhD, Professor, The Salk Institute, EAC Chair

"Cell State Plasticity in Cancer"

11-11:30

Jeremy Rich, MD, Professor, Department of Medicine, UCSD

"Targeting Cancer Stem Cells"

11:30-12

Matt Hangauer, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Dermatology, UCSD

"Cancer Persister Cells"

12-1:00

Lunch (trainees to have lunch with Dr. Wahl)

1-2:00

Shan Jiang, PhD, Postdoc, Laboratory of Dr. B. Ren, Department of Cellular & Molecular Medicine, UCSD

ENCODE Tutorial

9-10:30

Flash (1 min) Introduction of Posters and Presentation of Posters by Trainees

10:30-11

Hannah Carter, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, UCSD

"MHC Class I Restricts the Oncogenic Mutational Landscape in Cancer"

11-11:30

Susan Forsburg, PhD, Professor, University of Southern California, EAC Member

"Visualizing Genome Instability"

11:30-12

Pradipta Ghosh, MD, Professor, Department of Cellular & Molecular Medicine, UCSD

"Cancer Causing Bugs Play by the Rules of Baseball: three strikes and you are out"

12-1:00

Lunch

1-1:30

Arshad Desai, PhD, Professor, Department of Cellular & Molecular Medicine, UCSD

"Specialization of Cell Division: A Potential Therapeutic Target"