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, November 3, 2020

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

Benjamin Garcia, PhD, FRSC John McCrea Dickson M.D. Presidential Professor Presidential Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics Director of Quantitative Proteomics Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics Penn Epigenetics Institute Smilow Center for Translational Research Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania “Quantitative Proteomics for Understanding Epigenetic Mechanisms”To learn more about Dr. Garcia’s research, see his lab page.

Serena Nik-Zainal, MD, PhD CRUK Advanced Clinician Scientist Academic Department of Medical Genetics & MRC Cancer Unit Group Leader of the Physiology of Mutagenesis Group The Clinical School University of Cambridge “Harnessing the Value of Whole Genome Sequencing in Human Cancer”To learn more about Dr. Zik-Zainal’s research, see mutationalsignatures.com

Markus Schober, PhD Assistant Professor, Ronald O. Perelman Department of  Dermatology Assistant Professor, Department of Cell Biology NYU Grossman School of Medicine “Transcriptional Control of Self-Renewal and Differentiation in Squamous Cell Carcinoma”

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 and are intended for principal investigators in the New York region and their trainees.

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