Program

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