JBL XIX: Oct. 2016

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

elledgelab.med.harvard.edu/

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