Annual Spring Symposium

Date and Time

May 30, 2024
01:00PM - 06:30PM EDT

Location

TMEC 227 & TMEC Atrium

 

Annual Spring Symposium

featuring Karin Grunebaum Cancer Research Foundation Poster Competition

REGISTER HERE TO ATTEND


For KGCRF Poster Competition information & instructions - see below. 
 

SEMINARS
TMEC 227

1-1:05pm

Introduction & Welcome

1:05-2:0pm

From Punnett Squares to Overcoming Microbiome Mediated Resistance to Cancer Immunotherapy

Francesca Gazzaniga, PhD

2:00-2:10pm

Utilizing tumor mitochondrial defects to drive anti-tumor immunity

Tevis Vitale, Pere Puigserver Lab

2:10-2:20pm

Cytokine dependency screens identify the lipid phosphatase FITM2 as a cancer immunotherapy target

Collins Cheruiyot, Rob Manguso Lab

2:20-2:30pm

Paradigms of therapy resistance encoded in the microenvironment of metastatic urothelial carcinoma

Breanna Titchen, Eli Van Allen Lab

2:30-2:40pm

Short break

2:40-2:50pm

Building a scalable single-cell spatial profiling toolbox for tumor biology

Jackson Weir, Fei Chen Lab

2:50-3:00pm

Helicase-assisted continuous editing for programmable mutagenesis of endogenous genomes

Dawn Chen, Fei Chen Lab

3:00-3:55pm

Posttranslational control of gene expression during cell division

Eugene Oh, PhD

 

KGCRF POSTER COMPETITION & RECEPTION
TMEC Atrium

4:00-6:00pm

KGCRF Poster Competition & Reception

6:15pm

KGCRF Poster Competition Winners Announcement


KGCRF Poster Competition information & instructions

LCBC invites you to present your research at the KGCRF Poster Competition!

Four professional development awards available - $1,000 each

  • up to & including G3s - KGCRF Rising Young Scientist Award x2
  • G4s & up - KGCRF Early Career Investigator Award x2

ELIGIBILITY & HOW TO APPLY

All GSAS graduate students working in the field of cancer biology are eligible to participate.

To participate in the KGCRF Poster Competition SIGN UP HERE by Friday May 17 and submit your title and a short abstract.

For poster guidelines & template visit HERE.

We’ll print your posters! Send them directly to Jelena_Patrnogic@hms.harvard.edu by Monday May 20.

Questions? Please reach out to Jelena (Jelena_Patrnogic@hms.harvard.edu).