Cancer metabolism showcase and workshop
Abstracts due: March 21st, 2025
Talk/poster notifications: April 7th, 2025
Registration closes: May 2nd, 2025
Virtual Conference: 9:30 AM - 3 PM EST, May 5th and 6th, 2025
Talks from selected abstracts
10 minutes for talks; 5 minutes for questions
Poster presentations
Interactive poster session on GatherTown
Day 1 Workshops: Building Skills
Table 1: Expanding your network (collaboration and connections)
Table 2: Science Communication
Table 3: Applying for funding (USA)
Table 4: Applying for funding (UK/Europe)
Table 5: Balancing Life and Lab
Table 6: Research Questions in the Lab
Day 2 Workshops : YOUR Next Step
Table 1: Preparing for the academic job search (USA)
Table 2: Preparing for the academic job search (UK/Europe)
Table 3: Transition from PhD to postdoc in academia
Table 4: Transition into a position in Industry
Table 5: Transition into a position in Publishing
Table 6: Transition into a position in a Core Facility
CAREER KeyNOTE SPEAKER
Jeffrey Rathmell
“Temperature, inflammation, and a random walk through a career in science”
MPI Associate Director Cornelius Vanderbilt Professor of Immunobiology Director, Vanderbilt Center for Immunobiology
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A virtual conference, the Showcase is unique. While the intended audience is everyone (including faculty scientists), it will feature oral and poster presentations by non-faculty scientists ONLY. This format provides the maximal opportunity for students, postdocs, and faculty to interact and network. Further, workshops will feature training (e.g., how to best communicate your science) and panel discussions (e.g., how to do prepare for an academic job search).
Registration is FREE.
We look forward to seeing everyone soon.
Presenters
Aidan Cole, UPMC Hillman Cancer Center - “Chemotherapy-induction of fructose induces metabolic reprogramming to promote dissemination in High-Grade Serous Ovarian Cancer”
Yun Huang, Moffitt Cancer Center – “CRISPR Screens Identify GSR as a Therapeutic Target in KEAP1/NRF2-Mutant NSCLC”
Alexandra Ware, The University of Chicago – “BNIP3-dependent muscle atrophy in cancer cachexia promotes PDAC progression”
Yang Yang, University of California, San Francisco - “Autophagy dependent regulation of MAT2A during hypoxia in pancreatic cancer”
Baixue Yang, UPMC Hillman Cancer Center – “Ubiad1 protects CDKN2ALow cancer cells from lipid peroxidation”
Sonali Sharma, University of Rochester Medical Center – “Taurine transporter SLC6A6 promotes myeloid leukemia progression by regulating glycolysis”
Chesta Jain, University of Michigan – “Assessing the mechanism of iron mediated cell toxicity in colon cancer”
Nicolae Ciobu Zubenco, Columbia University – “Dietary Overnutrition Drives Immunosuppression and Tumor Progression in MASLD-Associated HCC via Linoleic Acid Metabolism”
Colin Sheehan, The University of Chicago - “Genetic screening in physiological nutrient systems uncovers metabolic dependencies of poorly perfused cancer cells in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC)”
Mumtaz Shirin, University of Utah – “Glutamine regulates osteoblast differentiation by modulating RUNX2 translation”
Curtis McCloskey, Princess Margaret Cancer Center – “FABP7 Progenitors are a Targetable Metabolic Root in the BRCA1 Breast”
Muhammad Bin Munim, Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology – “Warburg effect driven glucose uptake generates NADH to support cancer cell proliferation”
David Sokolov, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center – “Many ways to crack (or synthesize?) an egg: alternative aspartate synthesis in respiratory complex II-deficient cancer cells”
Miriam Lisci, University of Lausanne – “FBXW7 alleviates c-MYC repression of pyruvate carboxylase to support metabolic flexibility”
Dylan Calhoon, Children’s Medical Center Research Institute, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center – “Dissecting the roles of lipid uptake in tumors”
Leah Ziolkowski, The University of Chicago – “ATF4 is required for PanIN formation and PDAC via effects on nucleotide metabolism and suppression of p53 activity”
Jennifer Crainic, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center – “Excess cysteine stress drives conjugate formation and impairs proliferation of NRF2-activated cancer cells”
Laurentz Schuhknecht, University of Basel - “A Human Metabolic Map of Pharmacological Perturbations Reveals Drug Modes of Action”
Organizing Committee
Gina DeNicola, Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa Bay, USA
Isaac Harris, Wilmot Cancer Institute, Rochester, USA
Rushika Perera, University of California, San Francisco, USA
Alex Muir, University of Chicago, Chicago, USA
Lydia Finley, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York City, USA
Dirk Brenner, Luxembourg Institute of Health, Luxembourg
Dan Tennant, University of Birmingham, UK
Kristin Brown, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Australia
