11/12/2015 | |||
1:00 pm - 1:30 pm | Harvey Morse Auditorium, Plaza Level, South Tower, Cedars-Sinai | Registration | |
1:30 pm - 1:45 pm | Harvey Morse Auditorium, Plaza Level, South Tower, Cedars-Sinai | Welcome Joshua Breunig, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Leland Chung, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Clive Svendsen, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center | |
1:45 pm - 2:10 pm | Harvey Morse Auditorium, Plaza Level, South Tower, Cedars-Sinai | NIH Program Overview Dinah Singer, Director, Division of Cancer Biology, National Cancer Institute | |
2:10 pm - 3:00 pm | Harvey Morse Auditorium, Plaza Level, South Tower, Cedars-Sinai | Introduction and Opening Keynote: "The Dominance of the Microenvironment in Organ-Specificity and Malignant Progression" Mina Bissell, Distinguished Scientist in the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, UC Berkeley Leland Chung, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center | |
3:00 pm - 3:15 pm | Harvey Morse Auditorium, Plaza Level, South Tower, Cedars-Sinai | Refreshment Break | |
3:15 pm - 3:40 pm | Harvey Morse Auditorium, Plaza Level, South Tower, Cedars-Sinai | Session I: Genes and their Action in the Tumor Microenvironment
Chairs: William Nelson and Leland Chung Prostate Cancer Epigenetics William Nelson, Johns Hopkins University | |
3:40 pm - 4:05 pm | Harvey Morse Auditorium, Plaza Level, South Tower, Cedars-Sinai | Gene Regulatory Interactions Controlling Neural Crest Stem Cell Formation Marianne Bronner, California Institute of Technology | |
4:05 pm - 4:30 pm | Harvey Morse Auditorium, Plaza Level, South Tower, Cedars-Sinai | The Function Role of Stroma and Exosomes in Pancreatic Cancer Raghu Kalluri, MD Anderson | |
4:30 pm - 4:55 pm | Harvey Morse Auditorium, Plaza Level, South Tower, Cedars-Sinai | Discussion Panel | |
4:55 pm - 5:10 pm | Harvey Morse Auditorium, Plaza Level, South Tower, Cedars-Sinai | Poster Teaser | |
5:10 pm - 7:00 pm | Harvey Morse Auditorium, Rooms 1-3 | Poster Session I (even numbered), Reception and Networking | |
11/13/2015 | |||
8:30 am - 9:00 am | Harvey Morse Auditorium, Plaza Level, South Tower, Cedars-Sinai | Session II: Stemness and Therapeutic Resistance Chairs: Dean Tang and Neil Bhowmick Breakfast | |
9:00 am - 9:25 am | Harvey Morse Auditorium, Plaza Level, South Tower, Cedars-Sinai | Treatment-Induced Damage Responses in the Tumor Microenvironment: Targeting Master Regulators Peter Nelson, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center | |
9:25 am - 9:50 am | Harvey Morse Auditorium, Plaza Level, South Tower, Cedars-Sinai | Insights into the Interaction between Tumor and Stroma from Novel Glioma Models Joshua Breunig, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center | |
9:50 am - 10:15 am | Harvey Morse Auditorium, Plaza Level, South Tower, Cedars-Sinai | A Multi-Cancer Gene Signature Associated with Stromal Activation Sandra Orsulic, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center | |
10:15 am - 10:40 am | Harvey Morse Auditorium, Plaza Level, South Tower, Cedars-Sinai | Refreshment Break | |
10:40 am - 11:05 am | Harvey Morse Auditorium, Plaza Level, South Tower, Cedars-Sinai | Microenvironment Programmed Metastatic Prostate Cancer Stem Cell Dean Tang, The University of Texas | |
11:05 am - 11:30 am | Harvey Morse Auditorium, Plaza Level, South Tower, Cedars-Sinai | Discussion Panel | |
11:30 am - 12:30 pm | Harvey Morse Auditorium, Plaza Level, South Tower, Cedars-Sinai | Lunch | |
12:30 pm - 12:55 pm | Harvey Morse Auditorium, Plaza Level, South Tower, Cedars-Sinai | Session III: Tumor Progression and Microenvironment Chairs: Xiaojiang Cui and Rumela Chakrabarti Cell Fate Regulators in Mammary Gland Development and Breast Cancer Rumela Chakrabarti, University of Pennsylvania | |
12:55 pm - 1:20 pm | Harvey Morse Auditorium, Plaza Level, South Tower, Cedars-Sinai | Role of the Stroma in Prostate Cancer Initiation, Maintenance, and Metastasis Massimo Loda, Harvard University | |
1:20 pm - 1:45 pm | Harvey Morse Auditorium, Plaza Level, South Tower, Cedars-Sinai | Mesenchymal Stem Cells, the Bone Marrow Niche and Drug Resistance Yves DeClerck, Childrens Hospital Los Angeles/University of Southern California | |
1:45 pm - 2:00 pm | Harvey Morse Auditorium, Plaza Level, South Tower, Cedars-Sinai | Refreshment Break | |
2:00 pm - 2:25 pm | Harvey Morse Auditorium, Plaza Level, South Tower, Cedars-Sinai | Cross-Talk between Endothelial and Tumor Cells in Cancer Luisa Iruela-Arispa, University of California, Los Angeles | |
2:25 pm - 2:50 pm | Harvey Morse Auditorium, Plaza Level, South Tower, Cedars-Sinai | Discussion Panel | |
2:50 pm - 3:15 pm | Harvey Morse Auditorium, Plaza Level, South Tower, Cedars-Sinai | Session IV: Immune Interactions in the Cancer Microenvironment Chairs: Dolores DiVizio and Muller Fabbri Role of Exosomic MicroRNAs in the Biology of the Tumor Microenvironment Muller Fabbri, Childrens Hospital Los Angeles/University of Southern California | |
3:15 pm - 3:40 pm | Harvey Morse Auditorium, Plaza Level, South Tower, Cedars-Sinai | Impact of Macrophage Polarization on the Response to Chemotherapy and Radiation Stephen Shiao, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center | |
3:40 pm - 4:05 pm | Harvey Morse Auditorium, Plaza Level, South Tower, Cedars-Sinai | Myelin Plasticity in Health and Disease Michelle Monje, Stanford University | |
4:05 pm - 4:20 pm | Harvey Morse Auditorium, Plaza Level, South Tower, Cedars-Sinai | Refreshment Break | |
4:20 pm - 4:45 pm | Harvey Morse Auditorium, Plaza Level, South Tower, Cedars-Sinai | Genetic Control of Glioblastoma Stem Cell Self-Renewal John Yu, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center | |
4:45 pm - 5:10 pm | Harvey Morse Auditorium, Plaza Level, South Tower, Cedars-Sinai | Discussion Panel | |
11/14/2015 | |||
8:00 am - 8:20 am | Harvey Morse Auditorium, Plaza Level, South Tower, Cedars-Sinai | Session V: Clinical Implications: From Bench to Bedside Chairs: Clive Svendsen and Beth Karlan Breakfast | |
8:30 am - 8:55 am | Harvey Morse Auditorium, Plaza Level, South Tower, Cedars-Sinai | Hematopoietic Stem Cell Gene Therapy Donald Kohn, University of California, Los Angeles | |
8:55 am - 9:20 am | Harvey Morse Auditorium, Plaza Level, South Tower, Cedars-Sinai | Beating Prostate Cancer and Other Malignancies by Chemo-Immunotherapy – The Importance of Immunosuppressive Plasmocytes Michael Karin, University of California, San Diego | |
9:20 am - 9:45 am | Harvey Morse Auditorium, Plaza Level, South Tower, Cedars-Sinai | Clinical Microfluidics: Isolation of Circulating Tumor Cells and Microvesicles from Cancer Patients Shannon Stott, Massachusetts General Hospital | |
9:45 am - 10:45 am | Harvey Morse Auditorium, Rooms 1-3 | Poster Session II (odd numbered) and Refreshment Break | |
10:45 am - 11:10 am | Harvey Morse Auditorium, Plaza Level, South Tower, Cedars-Sinai | Acute Leukemia: Genomic Abnormalities, Even Before the Disease Develops Phillip Koeffler, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center | |
11:10 am - 11:35 am | Harvey Morse Auditorium, Plaza Level, South Tower, Cedars-Sinai | Discussion | |
11:35 am - 12:00 pm | Harvey Morse Auditorium, Plaza Level, South Tower, Cedars-Sinai | Lunch | |
12:00 pm - 12:50 pm | Harvey Morse Auditorium, Plaza Level, South Tower, Cedars-Sinai | Introduction and Closing Keynote: "The Hematopoietic Stem Cell Niche" Sean Morrison, Director of the Children's Medical Center Research Institute, UT Southwestern Clive Svendsen, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center | |
12:50 pm - 1:00 pm | Harvey Morse Auditorium, Plaza Level, South Tower, Cedars-Sinai | Announcements/Poster Winners Joshua Breunig, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Leland Chung, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Clive Svendsen, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center |