Cancer Grand Rounds are held in the Basic Science Tower, Level 9, Room 145
Jointly Sponsored by the Department of Pathology and the Cancer Center
2014
July 10, 12:00 PM
Statistical modeling of epigenetics data: ChIP-Seq and DNA methylation"
Presenter: Pei Fen Kuan, PhD, MS
Assistant Professor, Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics
Stony Brook University
April 17, 12:00 PM
"Novel therapeutic targets and strategies for personalized cancer treatment"
Presenter: Kaiyi Li, PhD
Associate Professor, Michael E. DeBakey Department of Surgery
Faculty Member, Dan L. Duncan Cancer Center
Baylor College of Medicine
April 10, 12:00 PM
"Environmental carcinogenesis and therapeutic effect of a new anti-cancer compound
Presenter: Chuanshu Huang, MD, PhD
Professor, Department of Environmental Medicine & Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology
Vice Chair, Department of Environmental Medicine
Deputy Director, Nelson Institute of Environmental Medicine
Director, Chemoprevention Program of NYU Cancer Institute
New York University School of Medicine
March 20, 12:00 PM
"Analysis of Cancer One Cell at a Time"
Presenter: Michael H. Wigler, PhD
Professor, Mammalian Cell Genetics & Interim Chair, Quantitative Biology, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Adjunct Professor, Department of Genetics, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University
Foreign Adjunct Professor, Tumor Biology, Department of Oncology-Pathology at Karolinksa Institutet, Sweden
March 13, 12:00 PM
"The origins and functional consequences of ETS gene fusions in prostate cancer"
Presenter: Ram S. Mani, PhD
Research Investigator, Michigan Center for Translational Pathology
Department of Pathology, University of Michigan Medical School
February 27, 12:00 PM
"Molecular Pathways of Urothelial Tumorigenesis: Insights from Genetically Engineered Mice"
Presenter: Xue-Ru Wu, MD
Professor of Urology and Pathology
Vice Chairman for Research, Department of Urology
New York University School of Medicine
February 6, 12:00 PM
"Novel Function of XIAP and its RING Domain in regulation of RhoGDI SUMOylation, Cancer Cell Motility and Metastasis"
Presenter: Chuanshu Huang, MD, PhD
Professor, Department of Environmental Medicine & Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology
Vice Chair, Department of Environmental Medicine
Deputy Director, Nelson Institute of Environmental Medicine
Director, Chemoprevention Program of NYU Cancer Institute
New York University School of Medicine
January 9, 12:00 PM
"Specificity and Diversity in the PI 3-Kinase and Akt Signaling Pathway in Cancer"
Presenter: Alex Toker, PhD
Professor, Department of Pathology
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School
2013
Michael Wigler, PhD
Professor, Mammalian Cell Genetics and Interim Chair, Quantitative Biology
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
"Analysis of Cancer One Cell at a Time"
December 5, 2013, 12:00 PM
John Blenis, PhD
Professor, Department of Cell Biology
Harvard Medical School
"mTOR: Nutrient Sensor and Master Regulator of Cell Growth"
October 10, 2013, 12:00 PM
John Haley, PhD
Senior Research Director
OSI Pharmaceuticals LLC/Astellas Pharmaceuticals US
"Cell plasticity promotes drug resistance and pathway redundancy"
August 15, 2013, 12:00 PM
Jeffrey Arbeit, MD
Professor, Department of Surgery/Division of Urology
Washington University School of Medicine
“Commandeering angiocrine functions using adenoviral vectors for novel bone metastasis therapy”
June 13, 2013, 12:00 PM
Bryan Toole, MD, PhD
Professor, Regenerative Medicine and Cell Biology
Medical University of South Carolina
"The CD147-Hyaluronan-CD44/LYVE-1 Axis in Malignancy and Chemoresistance"
May 22, 2013, 12:00 pm
Christopher Kemp, PhD
Associate Program Head, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Affiliate Professor, Pathology, University of Washington
"Cross Species Functional Analysis of the Cancer Genome"
April 11, 2013
Nathalie Scholler, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Perelman School of Medicine
Full Research Member, Tumor Immunology Group
Abramson Cancer Center, University of Pennsylvania, PA
"Breaking down tumor defenses"
March 7, 2013
Jorge Moscat, PhD
Professor, NCI‐Cancer Center
Scientific Director, Cancer Metabolism
Sanford‐Burnham Medical Research Institute, CA
"Cell nutrient sensing and metabolic reprograming in tumorigenesis"
January 21, 2013
2012
Robert L. Fine, MD
Columbia University Medical Center, NY
"Palindromic p53 peptides which restore function to mutant p53 cancer cells"
December 12, 2012
Randy L. Jirtle, PhD
Visiting Professor
McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research
University of Wisconsin-Madison, WI
"Epigenetics: How Genes and Environment Interact"
August 22, 2012
Benjamin Tycko MD, PhD
Professor of Pathology
Institute for Cancer Genetics and Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer’s Disease and the Aging Brain
Columbia University Medical Center, NY
“Genetic‐Epigenetic Interactions in Human Disease”
August 16, 2012
Dumitru Andrei Iacobas, PhD
Assistant Professor and Principal Investigator
Department of Neuroscience (DP Purpura)
Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University, NY
"Tumorigenesis: a gene fabric interplay going bad?"
August 9, 2012
Hilary A. Coller, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Molecular Biology
Princeton University, NJ
"Sleeper Cells: The Secret Life of Quiescent Fibroblasts"
July 19, 2012
