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, March 2, 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

Ekta Khurana, PhD Assistant Professor of Computational Genomics Associate Director, Tri-Institutional PhD Program in Computational Biology and Medicine Meyer Cancer Center Institute for Computational Biomedicine Department of Physiology and Biophysics Weill Cornell Medicine Affiliate Member New York Genome Center “Chromatin Accessibility Profiles of Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancers Reveal Novel Subtypes and Therapeutic Vulnerabilities” To learn more about Dr. Khurana’s research, see her lab page.

Alice Kamphorst, PhD Assistant Professor Department of Oncological Sciences Precision Immunology Institute Tisch Cancer Institute Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai “Understanding Maintenance and Differentiation of PD-1+ CD8 T Cells”

Denes Hnisz, PhD Group Leader Department of Genome Regulation Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics “Transcriptional Condensates in Health and Disease” To learn more about Dr. Hnisz’s research, see his 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; 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.