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Cancer Biology, Informatics & Omics Annual Retreat

2026 CBIO Retreat

Friday, July 10, 2026
12:00 pm to 5:00 pm
Moores UCSD Cancer Center Comer Commons

Time	Program
12:00–12:30 pm	Flash (1-Minute) Introduction of Posters and Presentation of Posters by Trainees and Trainee Candidates
12:30–1:30 pm	Poster Presentations and Lunch
1:30–2:10 pm	Chris Benner, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, UC San Diego “Decoding Regulatory Grammar with Transcription Initiation”
2:10–2:50 pm	Tiffany Amariuta-Bartell, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Medicine and Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute, UC San Diego “Mapping Susceptibility to Complex Disease with Genome-wide and Transcriptome-wide Association Studies”
2:50–3:00 pm	Coffee Break
3:00–3:40 pm	Aaron Boussina, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, UC San Diego “Leveraging the Electronic Health Records for Early Detection of Cancers”
3:40–5:00 pm	Steve Dowdy, Ph.D. CBIO Co-PI Professor, Cellular & Molecular Medicine, UC San Diego “Research Rigor and Reproducibility Workshop”

2025 CBIO Retreat Cancelled
(Due to Funding Limitations)

2024 CBIO Retreat

Friday, July 12, 2024
9:00 am–3:00 pm
UC San Diego Faculty Club

Time	Program
9:00–9:30 am	Breakfast and Poster Setup
9:30–9:40 am	One-Minute Introductions to Posters by Trainees
9:40–10:55 am	Poster Presentations
11:00–11:40 am	Anna-Maria Hays Putnam, Ph.D. Vice President, Development and Manufacturing, Halozyme “Career in Biotech Industry”
11:40 am–12:20 pm	Olivier Harismendy, Ph.D. Vice President, Translational Data Science and Computational Biology, Zentalis Former Associate Professor, UC San Diego “Career from Academia to Biotech Industry”
12:20–1:10 pm	Lunch
1:10–1:50 pm	Richard Kolodner, Ph.D. Distinguished Professor, UC San Diego Former Director of LICR and UCSD; Former Professor, Harvard Medical School “Career in Academia”
2:00–3:00 pm	Jean Y. J. Wang, Ph.D. Research Rigor and Reproducibility Workshop

2023 CBIO Retreat

Friday, July 14, 2023
9:00am - 3:00pm
UC San Diego Faculty Club

Time	Program
9:00–11:00 am	Flash (1-Minute) Introduction of Posters and Presentation of Posters by Trainees and Trainee Candidates
11:00–11:30 am	Kathleen Curtius, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, UC San Diego “Measuring Single Cell Clonal Dynamics in Human Blood Using Coalescent Point Processes”
11:30 am–12:00 pm	Lukas Chavez, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Sanford Burnham Prebys “Circular Extrachromosomal DNA as a New Target in Childhood Cancers”
12:00–1:15 pm	Lunch
1:15–2:00 pm	Prashant Mali, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Bioengineering, UC San Diego “Enhancing Genome and Transcriptome Engineering: New Approaches, New Challenges”

2021 CBIO Joint Retreat with Cancer Training Program at UC Davis

Friday, July 9, 2021 1:30–4:30 pm
On Zoom

Time	Program
1:30–2:00 pm	Trainee Introductions (UCSD and UCD): One minute per trainee, no slides.
2:00–2:45 pm	Jill Mesirov, Ph.D. Professor of Medicine Associate Vice Chancellor for Computational Health Sciences, UC San Diego “From Mathematics to Cancer Genomics”
2:45–3:15 pm	Peter Ly, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, UT Southwestern “My Career Path in Interrogating Cancer Genome Instability” Aaron Wecksler, Ph.D. Scientist, Genentech “My Path from Academics to Industry”
3:15–3:45 pm	Trainee Discussions with Drs. Ly and Wecksler
3:45–4:30 pm	Kelly Frazer, Ph.D. Professor of Pediatrics Director, Institute for Genomic Medicine, UC San Diego “Genomic Biology Research from Biotech to Academia” Robert Rickert, Ph.D. Senior Vice President Chief Scientific Officer, Cancer Immunology, Pfizer Oncology “Immunology Research from Academia to Pharma”

2020 Retreat Cancelled
(due to COVID-19 Pandemic Restrictions)

2019 CBIO Retreat

Friday, JULY 12, 2019, 9 am–2 pm
UCSD Faculty Club Lounge

Time	Program
9:00–10:30 am	Flash (1-Minute) Introduction of Posters and Presentation of Posters by Trainees
10:30–11:00 am	Geoff Wahl, Ph.D. Professor, The Salk Institute EAC Chair “Cell State Plasticity in Cancer”
11:00–11:30 am	Jeremy Rich, M.D. Professor, Department of Medicine, UC San Diego “Targeting Cancer Stem Cells”
11:30 am–12:00 pm	Matt Hangauer, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Department of Dermatology, UC San Diego “Cancer Persister Cells”
12:00–1:00 pm	Lunch Trainees to have lunch with Dr. Wahl
1:00–2:00 pm	Shan Jiang, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Fellow, Laboratory of Dr. B. Ren, Department of Cellular & Molecular Medicine, UC San Diego ENCODE Tutorial

2018 CBIO Retreat

Friday, July 13, 2018
UCSD Faculty Club Lounge

Time	Program
9:00–10:30 am	Flash (1-Minute) Introduction of Posters and Presentation of Posters by Trainees
10:30–11:00 am	Hannah Carter, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, UC San Diego “MHC Class I Restricts the Oncogenic Mutational Landscape in Cancer”
11:00–11:30 am	Susan Forsburg, Ph.D. Professor, University of Southern California EAC Member “Visualizing Genome Instability”
11:30 am–12:00 pm	Pradipta Ghosh, M.D. Professor, Department of Cellular & Molecular Medicine, UC San Diego “Cancer Causing Bugs Play by the Rules of Baseball: Three Strikes and You Are Out”
12:00–1:00 pm	Lunch
1:00–1:30 pm	Arshad Desai, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Cellular & Molecular Medicine, UC San Diego “Specialization of Cell Division: A Potential Therapeutic Target”

Photos from 2018 Annual Retreat

1 of 12, Myan explains her research to Steve and Jason in the foreground, while Meghana explains her poster for a perplexed Karl in the background

Myan explains her research to Steve and Jason in the foreground, while Meghana explains her poster for a perplexed Karl in the background

2 of 12, Steve gives James (Jake) his opinion while Susan reads the poster

Steve gives James (Jake) his opinion while Susan reads the poster.

3 of 12, Meghana answers Jean’s question on her project

Meghana answers Jean’s question on her project.

4 of 12, Jason and Wendy are happy with their discussion in the foreground, while Margaret has an eureka moment in the background.

Jason and Wendy are happy with their discussion in the foreground, while Margaret has an eureka moment in the background

5 of 12, Jason explains his research with force and determination

Jason explains his research with force and determination.

6 of 12, Margaret is happy with Steve’s comment

Margaret is happy with Steve’s comment.

7 of 12, Nathan and Frank focus on a Figure heavy with data in the foreground, while Carlos and Jean talk with their hands in the background.

Nathan and Frank focus on a Figure heavy with data in the foreground, while Carlos and Jean talk with their hands in the background

8 of 12, Ayush commands the attention of Richard and Enrico.

Ayush commands the attention of Richard and Enrico

9 of 12, Hannah speaks to the group on her discovery of the MHC-I restrictions of cancer mutations

Hannah speaks to the group on her discovery of the MHC-I restrictions of cancer mutations

10 of 12, Susan shows the group how to visualize genome instability by combining genetics and live cell imaging in the fission yeast

Susan shows the group how to visualize genome instability by combining genetics and live cell imaging in the fission yeast

11 of 12, The group's attention to Susan’s talk

The group's attention to Susan’s talk

12 of 12, Arshad brings the group up to date on how to target centrosomes in cancer therapy

Arshad brings the group up to date on how to target centrosomes in cancer therapy