New York Cancer Genomics Research Network Meeting

To advance collaborative efforts on cancer genomics, the New York Genome Center (NYGC) hosts meetings on the first Tuesday of every month to bring together leading cancer researchers, clinicians and postdocs from the NYGC’s Institutional Founding Members and other key academic institutions.

WHEN:
Tuesday, May 4, 2021

5:00 PM – 7:00 PM:  Speaker Presentations and Q&A

This will be a VIRTUAL meeting via Zoom.

MODERATOR

Harold Varmus, MD Senior Associate Core Member New York Genome Center Lewis Thomas University Professor of Medicine Weill Cornell Medicine

SPEAKERS

Allan Balmain, PhD Barbara Bass Bakar Distinguished Professorship in Cancer Genetics University of California San Francisco  “The Role of Mutagens and Tumor Promoters in Cancer Risk: Lessons from the Mouse”

Hani Goodarzi, PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics & Department of Urology Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center Bakar Computational Health Sciences Institute University of California San Francisco  “Revealing the Splicing Code Underlying Pathological Regulation of RNA Processing in Metastasis”

Inigo Martincorena, PhD Group Leader, Somatic Evolution Group Wellcome Sanger Institute  “Somatic Mutation and Clonal Expansion in Normal Tissues”

DISCUSSION AND Q&A
Moderated by Harold Varmus, MD
Discussion and Q&A will take place after each speaker presents.

These meetings are held on the first Tuesday of each month; are attended, when held in person, by principal investigators in the New York region and their trainees; and are intended to be viewed by anyone in the world with an internet connection.

Any questions on this event, contact events@nygenome.org.