Program
#MechModels2025*Final program/schedule will be announced closer to the event.
Tuesday, July 29
| 12:00 p.m. | Meeting registration opens |
| 4:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. |
Session 1: Metabolic signaling |
| 4:00 p.m. | Liron Bar-Peled (Massachusetts General Hospital) |
| 4:30 p.m. | TBD |
| 4:50 p.m. | TBD |
| 5:10 p.m. | Rushika Perera (UC San Francisco) |
| 5:40 p.m. | TBD |
| 6:00 p.m. | Dinner for registered attendees |
| 7:00 p.m. | TBD |
| 7:20 p.m. | Shruti Naik (Mount Sinai) |
| 8:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. |
Welcome Party in downstairs foyer at Salk Institute |
Wednesday, July 30
| 8:00 a.m. | Breakfast |
| 9:00 a.m. to 12:20 p.m. |
Session 2: Genetics and epigenetics |
| 9:00 a.m. | Donita Brady (University of Pennsylvania) |
| 9:30 a.m. | TBD |
| 9:50 a.m. | TBD |
| 10:10 a.m. | Yael David (Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center) |
| 10:40 a.m. | Coffee break |
| 11:00 a.m. | Liling Wan (University of Pennsylvania) |
| 11:30 a.m. | TBD |
| 11:50 a.m. | Mallika Singh (RevMed) |
| 12:20 p.m. | Lunch and Poster Session 1 |
| 2:00 p.m. to 4:50 p.m. |
Session 3: Tumor evolution |
| 2:00 p.m. | Kornelia Polyak (Dana-Farber Cancer Institute) |
| 2:30 p.m. | TBD |
| 2:50 p.m. | TBD |
| 3:10 p.m. | Sandra McAllister (Harvard University) |
| 3:40 p.m. | TBD |
| 4:00 p.m. | Ludmil Alexandrov (UC San Diego) |
| 4:30 p.m. | TBD |
| 5:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. |
Shuttles buses running to Gravity Heights |
| 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. |
Reception and Dinner at Gravity Heights |
Thursday, July31
| 8:00 a.m. | Breakfast |
| 9:00 a.m. to 12:10 p.m. |
Session 4: Tumor macroenvironment |
| 9:00 a.m. | Julio Aguirre-Ghiso (Albert Einstein College of Medicine) |
| 9:30 a.m. | TBD |
| 9:50 a.m. | TBD |
| 10:10 a.m. | Cyrus Ghajar (Fred Hutch Cancer Center) |
| 10:40 a.m. | Coffee break |
| 11:00 a.m. | Sheila Stewart (Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis) |
| 11:30 a.m. | TBD |
| 11:50 a.m. | TBD |
| 12:10 p.m. | Lunch and Poster Session 2 |
| 2:00 p.m. to 4:50 p.m. |
Session 5: Plasticity of cancer cells and their niche |
| 2:00 p.m. | Tuomas Tammela (Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center) |
| 2:30 p.m. | TBD |
| 2:50 p.m. | TBD |
| 3:10 p.m. | Cosimo Commisso (Sanford Burnham Prebys) |
| 3:40 p.m. | Coffee break |
| 4:00 p.m. | TBD |
| 4:20 p.m. | Shiri Gur-Cohen (UC San Diego) |
| 5:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. |
Shuttles buses running to Il Fornaio |
| 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. |
Reception and Dinner Il Fornaio |
Friday, August 1
| 8:00 a.m. | Breakfast |
| 9:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. |
Session 6: Immunity, inflammation, and cancer |
| 9:00 a.m. | Christine Moussion (Genentech) |
| 9:30 a.m. | TBD |
| 9:50 a.m. | TBD |
| 10:10 a.m. | Michel DuPage (UC Berkley) |
| 10:40 a.m. | Coffee break |
| 11:00 a.m. | Yvonne Chen (UC Los Angeles) |
| 11:30 a.m. | TBD |
| 11:50 a.m. | Mikala Egeblad (Johns Hopkins University) |
| 12:30 p.m. | Lunch | 1:30 p.m.to 3:40 p.m. |
Session 7: Last hurrah |
| 1:30 p.m. | Silvio Gutkind (UC San Diego) |
| 2:00 p.m. | TBD |
| 2:30 p.m. | TBD |
| 2:50 p.m. | TBD |
| 3:10 p.m. | Reuben Shaw (Salk Institute) |
| 3:45 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. |
Wine and cheese reception on Red Brick Courtyard; meeting adjourns |