Cancer: Basic Research to Bioinformatics
*One-day Webinar Event*
Center for Statistical Bioinformatics
and
Texas A&M TRIPODS FIDS Institute
Friday, September 10, 2021
*Registration Closed*
Organizers:
Bani K. Mallick, Chair, Department of Statistics, TAMU
Tapasree Roy Sarkar, Chair, Department of Biology, TAMU
Yang Ni, Department of Statistics, TAMU
Raquel Sitcheran, Department of Molecular and Cellular Medicine, TAMU Health Science Center
Irtisha Singh, Department of Molecular and Cellular Medicine, TAMU Health Science Center
Schedule:
9:00 am
Welcome and Introduction –
Dr. Alex Keene, Head, Department of Biology, TAMU
Dr. Brani Vidakovic, Head, Department of Statistics, TAMU
Session 1 – CANCER RESEARCH: BASIC SCIENCE TO BIOINFORMATICS
9:30 – 10:20 am
Keynote Speaker – Sendurai Mani, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
Talk Title: Contribution of epithelial mesenchymal plasticity to cancer metastasis and treatment resistance
10:25 – 11:00 am
Kirsten Bryant, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Talk Title: “Combination Approaches for Targeting KRAS-Driven Metabolic Alterations in Pancreatic Cancer”
11:10 – 11:45 pm
Taru Muranen, Harvard Medical School
Talk Title: “The Stromal Tumor Microenvironment’s Effect on Treatment Resistance”
11:50 – 12:25 pm
Mazhar Adli, Northwestern University
Talk Title: “Genome Screening for Tumor Suppressors and Combinatorial Drug Targets”
12:30 – 1:00 pm
Lunch
Session 2 – ONCO-INFORMATICS IN CANCER RESEARCH
1:15 – 2:05 pm
Keynote Speaker – Giovanni Parmigiani, Harvard University
Talk Title: “Statistical Learning on Collections of Heterogeneous Studies”
2:10 – 2:45 pm
Manu Setty, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Talk Title: “Regulatory Model of Lineage Dynamics using Single-cell Multiomics Data”
2:55 – 3:30 pm
Min Jin Ha, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
Talk Title: “Integrative Network Modeling in Cancer Pharmacogenomics”
3:35 – 4:10 pm
Xiao Li, Genentech, Inc.
Talk Title: “Bayesian Spatial and Nonparametric approach for Cancer Radiomics: Elucidating Textural Patter Heterogeneity of Solid Lesions”
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