JBL Symposium XIX – 2016
October 21-22, 2016; Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health
Theme: “Using Innovative Approaches in Stress Response Research”
Friday October 21st
1:00-1:15PM
Introduction
1:15-4:30PM Session 1: Discussion Leader Dr. Eva Guinan
1:15-2PM
Dr. Stephen J. Elledge
“How Genomic Instability and Aneuploidy Drives Cancer”
Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School
2-2:45PM
Dr. Franziska Michor
“Evolutionary Dynamics of Cancer”
Dana Farber Cancer Institute
http://michorlab.dfci.harvard.edu
2:45-3PM Break Outside G1
3-3:45PM
Dr. Anthony Letai
“Stressing Tumor Mitochondria for Functional Precision Medicine in Cancer”
Dana Farber Cancer Institute
http://letailab.dana-farber.org
3:45-4:30PM
Dr. Ajay Chawla
“Immune Licensing of Thermogenesis”
University of California – San Francisco
https://bms.ucsf.edu/directory/faculty/ajay-chawla-md-phd
4:30-6:30PM Reception– Kresge Cafeteria
Saturday October 22nd
8-9AM Breakfast -Kresge Cafeteria
9-12AM/PM Session 2: Discussion Leader Dr. Zachary Nagel
9-9:45AM
Dr. Douglas Wallace
“A Mitochondria Etiology of Complex Diseases”
The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
http://cmem.research.chop.edu/index.php/cmem-bers/1-wallace-douglas
9:45-10:30AM
Dr. David Pellman
“Nuclear Envelope Architecture and Genome Stability”
Dana Farber Cancer Institute
http://research4.dfci.harvard.edu/pellmanlab/
10:30-10:45 Break Outside G1
10:45-11:30AM
Dr. Eileen White
“Autophagy-mediated Recycling Sustains Survival of Cancer Cells”
Rutgers University
http://cinj.org/research/white-laboratory
11:30-12:15 AM/PM
Dr. David Kirsch
“Acute DNA Damage Activates the Tumor Suppressor
p53 to Promote Radiation-induced Lymphoma”
Duke University
https://radonc.duke.edu/research-education/research-labs/radiation-and-cancer-biology/kirsch-lab
12:15-1:30PM Lunch– Kresge Cafeteria
1:30-4:45 Session 3: Discussion Leader Dr. Kristopher Sarosiek
1:30-2:15PM
Dr. Alex Toker
“Exploiting Metabolic Vulnerabilities in the PI3K/AKT Signaling
Pathway for Therapeutic Benefit in Cancer”
Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital
http://www.bidmc.org/Research/Departments/Pathology/Laboratories/AlexTokerLab.aspx
2:15-3PM
Dr. Pere Puigserver
“Transcriptional Control of Mitochondrial Bioenergetics”
Dana Farber Cancer Institute
http://puigserver.dfci.harvard.edu
3-3:15 Break -Outside G1
3:15-4:00PM
Dr. Paul Hwang
“Modulating Metabolism for Cancer Prevention in Li-Fraumeni Syndrome:
Mitochondria as Target”
National Institutes of Health
http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/research/intramural/researchers/pi/hwang-paul
4-4:45PM
Dr. Randal Kaufman
“Interactions Between ER Protein Misfolding and Mitochondrial
Function in Regulation of Energy Metabolism”
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute
http://labs.sbpdiscovery.org/centerandlabs/neuroagingstem/kaufmanlab/Pages/Home.aspx