Mech Models

Mechanisms and Models of Cancer

August 5-8, 2015


Wednesday, August 5

12:00pm: Meeting Registration opens

4:00pm-9:00pm: Session 1, “Tumor Suppressors & Oncogenes”
(This session includes a break for dinner which is provided for all registered attendees)
Gerard Evan, University of Cambridge, UK
Stephano Spano-Mello, Stanford University School of Medicine*
Srinivas Vinod Saladi, Harvard Medical School*
Martine Roussel, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Martin McMahon, UC San Francisco
Eusebio Manchado, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center*
Doug Lowy, National Cancer Institute*
Robertus Antonius Maria de Bruin, University College London, UK *
Julien Sage, Stanford University

Thursday, August 6

9:00am-12:30pm: Session 2, “Cancer Metabolism”
Lewis Cantley, Weill Cornell Medical School
Robert Svensson, Salk Institute for Biological Studies *
David Shackelford, University of California Los Angeles*
Ralph DeBaradinis, UT Southwestern
Eileen White, Rutgers Cancer Institute NJ
Nathan Lanning, California State University, Los Angeles *
Franz Schaub, The Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute*
Matt Vander Heidin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

2:00pm-4:00pm: Poster Session One

4:00pm-5:00pm:  Dulbecco Lecture
Bob Schreiber, Washington University St. Louis – Tumor Immunology

5:00pm-6:00pm: Dulbecco Lecture Reception

6:00pm-7:00pm: Dinner for all registered attendees

7:00pm-9:00pm: Session 3, “Therapeutics”
Liz Jaffee, Johns Hopkins University
Andrew Howard, Van Andel Research Institute*
Shigeki Miyake-Stoner, Salk Institute for Biological Studies*
Lars Zender, University Hospital Tuebingen, Germany*
Karen Cichowski, Harvard Medical School

Friday, August 7

9:00am-12:30pm: Session 4, “Microenvironment, Stem Cells, and Metastasis”
Sean Morrison, UT Southwestern
Eric Snyder, UC San Francisco*
Trudy Oliver, Huntsman Cancer Institute*
Sara Trifari, La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology *
Monte Winslow, Stanford University
Xin Ye, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research*
Spencer Wei, UC San Diego*
Tuomas Tammela, Massachusetts Institute of Technology *

2:00pm-4:00pm: Poster Session Two

5:30pm-7:00pm: Dinner for all registered attendees

7:00pm-9:00pm: Session 5, “Defining Essential Needs of Cancer”
David Sabatini, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Luke Dow, Weill Cornell Medical College*
David Feldser, University of Pennsylvania*
Dannielle Engle, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory*
Omer Yilmaz, Massachusetts Institute of Technology*
Christopher Dravis, Salk Institute for Biological Studies*

Saturday, August 8

9:00am-12:30pm: Session 6, “Epigenetics”
Lin He, UC Berkeley
Quan Zhu, Salk Institute for Biological Studies*
Mara Sherman, Salk Institute for Biological Studies*
Peter Jones, Van Andel Research Institute
Diana Hargreaves, Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Shivani Malik, UC San Francisco*
Yadira Soto-Feliciano, Massachusetts Institute of Technology*
2:00pm-5:30pm: Session 7, “DNA Repair, Telomeres, and Genomic Crises”
Titia DeLange, The Rockefeller University
Peter Ly, UC San Diego*
Ken Olive, Columbia University Medical Center*
Levi Beverly, University of Louisville*
Alan D’Andrea, Harvard Medical School
Steve Elledge, Harvard Medical School
David Stokoe, Genentech*
Gina De Nicola, Weill Cornell Medical College*
Thalas Papagiannakoppoulous, Massachusetts Institute of Technology*

5:30pm-6:30pm:  Wine & Cheese Reception for all registered attendees

6:30pm-9:00pm: Closing Banquet (Available to specified registered attendees)

 

*Short talk presenter.
**This schedule was last updated July 18, 2015