CCSB Symposium - May 1, 2025

We look forward to seeing you at the Stanford Center for Cancer Systems Biology Symposium on Thursday, May 1, 2025!

The symposium is designed for participants to explore systems biology approaches to understanding cancer progression and treatment response. Talks covering computational and imaging innovations will focus on decoding the tumor microenvironment, analyzing spatial dynamics in metastasis, mapping cell-cell interactions, and advancing therapeutic and diagnostic strategies. This event will feature presentations from leading investigators, researchers from our center, poster sessions (in-person only), and networking opportunities as part of our U54 outreach efforts.
Registration is now open and required for this in-person and online event (Zoom link coming up soon!). Please note that the registration site will close on Friday, April 25, at 5pm PST.

Please contact Pornprang Plangsrisakul at pplangs@stanford.edu with any questions or comments.

Agenda

9:00 AM	Registration/Continental Breakfast
9:30 AM	Sylvia Plevritis, PhD, William M. Hume Professor in the School of Medicine, Professor in the Departments of Biomedical Data Science and Radiology, Chair of the Department of Biomedical Data Science, Stanford University Welcome and Overview
9:45 AM	Nathan Reticker-Flynn, PhD, Assistant Professor, Otolaryngology (Head and Neck Surgery), Stanford University Title: "Uncovering the Roles of Lymph Nodes in Immune Tolerance, Metastatic Evolution, and Immunotherapy"
10:15 AM	Kazukuni Hayashi, PhD, Postdoctoral Scholar (Engleman Lab), Pathology, Stanford University Title: "Elucidating the Role of Macrophages in Lymph Node Metastasis"
10:45 AM	Break
11:00 AM	Sandro Santagata, MD, PhD, Associate Professor in the Department of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School Title: "New Horizons in Pathology – Innovations in Multiplexed Tissue Imaging for Discovery and Diagnostics"
11:45 AM - 1:15 PM	Poster Session and Lunch
1:15 PM	Elham Azizi, PhD, Herbert & Florence Irving Assistant Professor of Cancer Data Research, Irving Institute for Cancer Dynamics, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University Title: "Decoding Tumor Microenvironment Dynamics with Machine Learning"
1:55 PM	Weiruo Zhang, PhD, Research Engineer in the Department of Biomedical Data Science (Plevritis Lab), Stanford University Title: "MONTAGE: A Computation Framework to Identify Spatially Resolved Functional Enrichment Gradients in the Tissue Microenvironment via Spatial Communities"
2:25 PM	Adam MacLean, PhD, Assistant Professor of Quantitative and Computational Biology, University of Southern California Title: "Inferring Cell-Cell Interaction Networks and Dynamics that Determine Response to Checkpoint Inhibitors in Metastatic Tumor Microenvironments"
3: 05 PM	Poster Session and Refreshments
4:00 PM	End of Symposium

Meet the speakers (in order of presentation):

Sylvia Plevritis, PhD, William M. Hume Professor in the School of Medicine, Professor in the departments of Biomedical Data Science and Radiology, and Chair of the Department of Biomedical Data Science, Stanford University

Nathan Reticker-Flynn, PhD, Assistant Professor of Otolaryngology (Head & Neck Surgery), Stanford University

Kazukuni Hayashi, PhD, Postdoctoral Scholar (Engleman's Lab) in the Department of Pathology, Stanford University

Sandro Santagata, MD, PhD, Associate Professor in the Department of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School

Elham Azizi, PhD, Herbert & Florence Irving Assistant Professor of Cancer Data Research, Irving Institute for Cancer Dynamics, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University

Weiruo Zhang, PhD, Research Engineer in the Department of Biomedical Data Science, Plevritis Lab, Stanford University

Adam MacLean, PhD, Assistant Professor of Quantitative and Computational Biology, University of Southern California