2024 PS-ON Annual Investigators Meeting

3260 South St. Please use the Courtyard Entrance to the building, located on South Street.

Hors D'oeuvres provided by Sage Bionetworks; a Cash Bar will be available.

Glandt Forum, 3rd Floor

Coffee provided by the MC2 Center / Sage Bionetworks   

Tech check for all Day 1 Speakers

Ravi Radhakrishnan, University of Pennsylvania; and Ben Greenbaum, Memorial Sloan Kettering

Shannon Hughes, Deputy Director, Division of Cancer Biology, NCI

All poster presenters please attach their posters.

Chair: Ravi Radhakrishnan and Noor Momin, University of Pennsylvania

9:40 - 10:00 AM     TT Cells Spatially Regulate B Cell Receptor Signaling in Lymphomas through H3K9me3 Modifications - Ankur Singh, Georgia Tech

10:00 - 10:20 AM     Order from disorder: self-organization in development and cancer -Zev Gartner, UCS

10:20 - 10:40 AM     Genetic variation drives cancer cell adaptation to extracellular matrix stiffness -Tanmay Lele, Texas A&M

10:40 - 11:00 AM     Clustered macrophages cooperate to eliminate tumors via coordinated intrudopodia -Dennis Discher, University of Pennsylvania

11:00 - 11:20 AM     Extracellular vesicles mediate pathological crosstalk within and beyond tumor microenvironment -Ravi Radhakrishnan, University of Pennsylvania

TJ Sharpe

Introduced by Eric Johnson Chavarria, National Cancer Institute

Lunch provided by the MC2 Center / Sage Bionetworks   

If you have not attached your posters, please do so now

Chair: Pamela Jackson, Mayo Clinic; Siyu Sun, Memorial Sloan Kettering

1:30 - 1:50 PM     Bayesian Networks and State-Transition Models: Unveiling Cancer Dynamics through Multi-Omic Integration - Sergio Branciamore, City of Hope

1:50 - 2:10 PM     Tumor growth and tumor-immune interaction dynamics modeling and calibrating using clinical data - Heiko Enderling, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

2:10 - 2:30 PM     Platelet roles in determining biophysical flow in pre-metastatic niche - Fransisca Leonard, Houston Methodist

2:30 - 2:50 PM     A Statistical Physics Framework for Understanding the Role of Repeat RNA in Tumor Immunity - Benjamin Greenbaum, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

2:50 - 3:10 PM     Mechanical force regulates ligand binding and function of PD-1 - Cheng Zhu, Georgia Tech

Chair: Mehdi Damaghi, Stony Brook University; Shavari Kemkar, University of Pennsylvania

    1 - Marc Birtwistle, Clemson University

    3 - Christina Dubell, Texas A&M University

    5 - David Frankhouser, City of Hope

    7 - Aditi Gopalan, Sage Bionetworks

    9 - Xiao Huang, Drexel University

    11 - Reshma Kalyan Sundaram, University of Pennsylvania

    13 -  Seung-Hyun Ko, University of Pennsylvania

    15 - Jing Li, Georgia Tech

    17 - Tristan Marchena, University of Pennsylvania

    19 - Jonathan Nukpezah, University of Pennsylvania

    21 - Siyu Sun, Memorial Sloan Kettering

Galleria, 1st Floor / Street Level

Appetizers provided by Sage Bionetworks

Lucky Strike 

1336 Chestnut St.

Coffee provided by the MC2 Center / Sage Bionetworks   

Tech check for all Day 2 Speakers

Ravi Radhakrishnan, University of Pennsylvania; Ben Greenbaum, Memorial Sloan Kettering

Chair: Andriy Marusyk, Moffitt; Christina Dubell, Texas A&M University

    2 - Brandon Bumbaca - SUNY Buffalo

    4 - Jacopo Ferruzzi, University of Texas at Dallas

    6 - Yu-Hsuan Fu, City of Hope

    8 - Rebecca Harman, Northeastern University

    12 - Sharvari Kemkar, University of Pennsylvania

    16 - Xuewu Liu, Houston Methodist

    18 - Andriy Marusyk, Moffitt

    22 - Eunae You, Massachusetts General Hospital

    24 - Ye Zhang, MIT

Galleria, 1st Floor / Street Level

Poster presenters take down their posters at the end of the session

Lunch provided by the MC2 Center / Sage Bionetworks   

Panelists: Ravi Radhakrishnan, University of Pennsylvania; Ben Greenbaum, Memorial Sloan Kettering; and Ankur Singh, Georgia Tech

See Details here.

Chair: Kristin Swanson, Mayo Clinic; Seung-Hyun Brianna Ko, University of Pennsylvania

2:45 - 3:05 PM     Sex-distinct Transcriptomic Signatures Underlie MRI-defined Edema Patterns in Human Gliomas - Pamela Jackson, Mayo Clinic

3:05 - 3:25 PM     Imaging and mathematical modeling to guide photoimmunotherapy of ovarian cancer - Rebecca Harmon,  Northeastern University

3:25 - 3:45 PM     Frequency-Dependent Ecological Interactions Increase the Prevalence, and Shape the Distribution, of Preexisting Drug Resistance - Jacob Scott, Cleveland Clinic

3:45 - 4:05 PM     Mathematical modeling of the cancer-bone ecosystem - Conor Lynch, Moffitt

4:05 - 4:25 PM     Evolution and Ecology of Breast Carcinogenesis - Mehdi Damaghi, Stony Brook University

Ravi Radhakrishnan, University of Pennsylvania; Ben Greenbaum, Memorial Sloan Kettering; and Eric Johnson Chavarria, National Cancer Institute