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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