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, October 6, 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

Julio Aguirre-Ghiso, PhD Endowed Mount Sinai Professor in Cancer Biology Division of Hematology and Oncology, Department of Medicine Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai “Dissemination and Metastatic Dormancy of Early Evolved Mammary Cancer Cells”To learn more about Dr. Aguirre-Ghiso’s research, visit his lab page.

Camila dos Santos, PhD Assistant Professor Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory “Chromatin Remodeling in Breast Cancer” To learn more about Dr. dos Santos’s research, visit her lab page.

Ashley Laughney, PhD Assistant Professor of Physiology and Biophysics Assistant Professor of Computational Cancer Genomics in Computational Biomedicine in the Institute for Computational Biomedicine Weill Cornell Medicine “Regenerative Lineages and Immune-Mediated Pruning in Lung Cancer Metastasis” To learn more about Dr. Laughney’s research, visit her lab page.

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.