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12:00-1:00        Registration

1:00-1:10           Welcome and Opening Remarks

  • Reuben Shaw, PhD, Director, Salk Cancer Center
  • Silvio Gutkind, PhD, Associate Director, Basic Science, UCSD Moores Cancer Center
  • Garth Powis, PhD, Director, Sanford Burnham Prebys Cancer Center

1:10-1:20           Pedal the Cause Update: Anne Marbarger, Executive Director, Padres Pedal the Cause, San Diego

1:20- 1:­45         Introduction to San Diego Center for Precision Immunotherapy

  • Sandip Patel, MD, UCSD Moores Cancer Center

1:­45-2:05           Targeting cellular mechanotransduction in breast cancer metastasis   

  • Elena Pasquale, PhD, Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute    
  • Jing Yang, PhD, UCSD Moores Cancer Center (presenting)

2:05-2:25           Oncogenic Regulation of B-lymphomagenesis by the chromatin modulator DOT1L

  • Aniruddha Deshpande, PhD, Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute (presenting)
  • Bing Ren, PhD, UCSD Moores Cancer Center

2:25-2:40           Coffee Break

2:40- 3:00         Tissue-specific role of SMARCB1 in pediatric rhabdoid tumors

  • John Crawford, MD, UCSD Moores Cancer Center & Rady Children's Hospital
  • Allison Parisian PhD, UCSD Moores Cancer Center

           
3:00-3:20           Irreversible electroporation as an In Situ vaccine for Pancreatic Cancer 

  • Jayanth Shankara Narayanan PhD, UCSD Moores Cancer Center (presenting)
  • Rebecca White, MD, UCSD Moores Cancer Center
  • Aaron Miller, MD, PhD, UCSD Moores Cancer Center
  • Steven Schoenberger, PhD, La Jolla Institute of Allergy and Immunology

3:20-3:40          GPR68, a proton sensing GPCR, in pancreatic cancer associated fibroblasts as a novel therapeutic target

  • Shu Wiley Phd, UCSD Moores Cancer Center (presenting)
  • Paul Insel, MD, UCSD Moores Cancer Center
  • Kristiina Vuori, MD, PhD, Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

3:40-4:00           Decoding colon cancers using boolean principles

  • Pradipta Ghosh, MD, UCSD Moores Cancer Center (presenting)
  • Debashi Sahoo, PhD, UCSD Moores Cancer Center
  • Manuel Perucho, PhD, Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

4:00-4:15           Coffee Break

4:15-5:00           Keynote Presentation: "Mitochondria: Stem Cells, Transfer, and Disease"     

  • Michael Teitell, MD, PhD, Director, UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center

5:00-6:30           Reception on SALK COURTYARD