Salk Cancer Day Symposium 2026

Cancer Metabolism and the Tumor Ecosystem

Salk Institute for Biological Studies - Salk Cancer Day Symposium 2026 - Cancer Metabolism and the Tumor Ecosystem

Programm


Salk Cancer Day Symposium 2026 Program

8:30 a.m. Registration and breakfast

SESSION I Moderator: Sam Bloom, PhD

9:30 a.m. Welcome remarks
Diana Hargreaves, PhD
Salk Institute
T32 Co-Director
T32 organizers: Sam Bloom, Victoria Osorio Vasquez, Joel Encarnacion Rosado, and Casie Kubota
Salk Institute
9:40 a.m. Ashani T. Weeraratna, PhD
Bloomberg Distinguished Professor
E.V. McCollum Professor and Chair of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Professor
Johns Hopkins
10:20 a.m. Shinya Kusumoto, MD, PhD
UCLA
Mesothelial cell interactions uncover a chromatin and metabolic vulnerability to doxorubicin in ovarian cancer
10:45 a.m. Coffee break

SESSION II Moderator: Victoria Osorio Vasquez, PhD

11:00 a.m. Janelle Ayres, PhD
Salk Institute
Microbes and cachexia
11:40 a.m. Yiyin Erin Chen, PhD
Robert A. Swanson Career Development Professor of Life Sciences
Broad Institute
12:20 p.m. Mittagessen

SESSION III Moderator: Joel Encarnacion Rosado, PhD

1:30 p.m. Kailash Chandra Mangalhara, PhD
Salk-Institut für biologische Studien
Mitochondrial complex II inhibition promotes tumor inflammation
1:55 p.m. Edna (Eti) Cukierman, PhD
Marvin & Concetta Greenberg Chair in Pancreatic Cancer Research
Fox Chase Cancer Center
2:35 p.m. Mark B. Wiley, PhD
UCSD
Myofibroblast derived Activin A promotes immunosuppression and tumor cell migration via non-canonical signaling in PDAC
2:50 p.m. Coffee break

SESSION IV Moderator: Casie Kubota, PhD

3:05 p.m. Ambroise Manceau, PhD
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute
Zinc homeostasis orchestrates macropinocytosis-dependent metabolic reprogramming in cancer
3:30 p.m. Costas Lyssiotis, PhD
Maisel Research Professor of Oncology
University of Michigan Medical School
4:10 p.m. Closing remarks
Diana Hargreaves, PhD
Salk Institute
T32 Co-Director
4:20 p.m. Poster session and reception/networking session

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