Final Meeting program in EDT (USA Eastern Daylight Savings Time)
May 4, 2023, Thursday (EDT)
7:30-8 AM breakfast
8 AM
Introduction (Christine Ambrosone & Shuji Ogino)
8:05AM
Special forum for germline & somatic genomics / disparities (Theme: self-reported race and ethnicity and genetic ancestry: where do they meet in cancer disparities?)
Chair: Christine Ambrosone – brief intro to the session (5 min)
Keynote 1: Timothy Rebbeck (keynote 1) 30 min - Biological and Social Drivers of Cancer Health Disparities
Salma Shariff-Marco - Investigating the Structural and Social Drivers of Cancer Health Disparities
Song Yao - Tumor Mutations and Risk Factors
QA
9:35 AM Break (20 min)
9:55 AM
Brittany Lord – The Impact of Neighborhood Deprivation on DNA Methylation in Breast Cancer
Angela Omilian – The Role of Self-identified Race and Ethnicity, Neighborhood Socioeconomic Status, and Genetic Ancestry on Breast Cancer Outcomes in the Pathways Study
Ken Batai – Kidney Cancer Health Disparities: Exploring Role of Social Determinants of Health
QA + Discussion: CA chair (30 min)
11:40 AM Group Photo
Lunch & Poster session
2 PM
Session 1: Integration of Genomics and Macro-Microenvironment
(Chair, Montse Garcia-Closas)
Matthew Meyerson (keynote 2) 30 min - Genetic Epidemiology and Microbiology of Human Lung and Colon Cancers
Gretchen Gierach - Integrating Macro-Microenivronment Biomarkers of Breast Tissue Composition to Inform Breast Cancer Etiology and Progression
QA
3:05 PM
Break
3:25 PM
Session 2: Influence of Lifestyle, Behavioral, and Genetic Factors on Tumor and Normal Tissues (Chair: Peter Campbell)
Ting-Yuan David Cheng – mTOR Pathway Signaling: a Mechanistic Link between Energy Imbalance and Breast Cancer
Cassandra Hathaway - Immunologic Predictors of Survival among Patients with Ovarian Cancer
Maria Teresa Landi - The Interplay of Exogenous and Endogenous Mutational Processes in Lung Cancer Evolution
QA
4:40 PM (Bus leaves at 5:15 PM)
Niagara Falls tour / reception
May 5 (Friday)
Future preview (spatial analyses; bioinformatics; artificial intelligence; short talk)
8:15AM
Session 1 (Chair, Shuji Ogino)
Jonathan Nowak – Utility of Tissue-Based Tumor Microenvironment Profiling in Large Patient Cohorts
Stephanie Schmit - Investigating the Epidemiology of T Cell Responses in Colorectal Cancer and Developing Efforts in Diverse Populations
Mustapha Abubakar - Heterogeneity in Exposure-Tissue Interactions Parallels Breast Cancer Etiologic Heterogeneity
QA
9:35AM Break
10AM
Session 2 (Chair, Song Yao)
Kun-Hsing Yu – Artificial Intelligence for Integrative Pathology Evaluation
Jonas Almeida – Mutation Signatures - Unified Presentations of Array Panel and Sequencing Data for AI Analysis
Tomotaka Ugai - Integration of Cancer Spectra into Large-Scale Population Studies for Precision Oncology
QA
11:20AM
Award presentation
Congratulations to winners!
MPE Minority Scholar Award to Elom Aglago
MPE Trainee Award to Carino Gurjao
MPE Rising Investigator Award to Tomotaka Ugai
11:40 PM Lunch.
Open business meeting
The Darwin Martin House Tour