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, February 1st, 2022

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

This will be a VIRTUAL meeting via Zoom.

MODERATOR

Nicolas Robine, PhD (Moderator) Director, Computational Biology New York Genome Center

SPEAKERS

Semir Beyaz, PhD CSHL Fellow Donaldson Translational Fellow Member, Cancer Center Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory  “Mechanisms of Environment – Gene Interactions in Regeneration and Cancer”

Daniel A. Heller, PhD Head Cancer Nanomedicine Laboratory Bristol-Myers Squibb/James D. Robinson III Junior Faculty Chair Associate Member, Molecular Pharmacology Program Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Associate Professor, Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences Weill Cornell Medicine Graduate Field Faculty, Meinig School of Biomedical Engineering Cornell University “Nanoscale Observations in the Lysosome”

Hao Zhu, MD Associate Professor Children’s Medical Center Research Institute UT Southwestern Attending Physician Multidisciplinary Liver Cancer Clinic Parkland Memorial Hospital “Somatic Mosaicism Reveals Adaptive Pathways in Chronic Liver Disease”

DISCUSSION AND Q&A
Discussion and Q&A will take place after each speaker presents.

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

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