Thanks for joining us at the Seventh Annual Stanford Cancer Systems Biology Symposium on March 26, 2021!
The Stanford CCSB will hold its 7th Annual Symposium virtually. This conference is designed for participants to explore a systems biology approach to understand cancer progression and treatment response. The meeting will focus on the single-cell analysis in the study of cancer, with a particular focus on tumor development, the tumor microenvironment, and spatial genomics.
Featured Speakers
Zinaida Good, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Stanford Cancer Center, Stanford University
Xiaole Shirley Liu, Ph.D., Professor of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Co-director, Center for Functional Cancer Epigenetics, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Almudena Espin Perez, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Biomedical Informatics, Stanford University
Vijay Sankaran, M.D., Ph.D., the Lodish Family Chair in the Division of Hematology/Oncology, Boston Children's Hospital; Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
Meromit Singer, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Data Science, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and the Department of Immunology, Harvard Medical School
Chloé Steen, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Division of Oncology, Department of Medicine, Stanford University
Itai Yanai, Ph.D., Director, Institute for Computational Medicine; Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, NYU Langone Health
Agenda
Morning Session
9:00 am - 9:05 am - Welcome
- Sylvia Plevritis, PhD, Professor and Chair of Biomedical Data Science Department; Professor of Radiology; Principal Investigator of Stanford Center for Cancer Systems Biology (CCSB)
9:05 am - 9:20 am - Introduction
- Andrew Gentles, PhD, Assistant Professor of Medicine (Biomedical Informatics) and , by courtesy, of Biomedical Data Science, Stanford University
- Aaron Newman, PhD, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Data Science, Stanford University
9:20 am - 9:50 am - Talk 1: Cancer Cell States and Their Interactions with the Tumor Microenvironment
- Itai Yanai, PhD, Director, Institute for Computational Medicine; Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, NYU Langone Health
9:50 am - 10:20 am - Talk 2: Large-Scale Determination of Cell States and Cellular Ecosystems in Human Malignancies
- Chloé Steen, PhD, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Division of Oncology, Department of Medicine, Stanford University
10:20 am - 10:30 am - Break
10:30 am - 11:00 am - Talk 3: Cellular Hierarchies Underlying Human Health and Disease
- Vijay Sankaran, PhD, the Lodish Family Chair in the Division of Hematology/Oncology, Boston Children's Hospital; Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
11:00 am - 11:20 am - Talk 4: System Level Control of Lineage Plasticity in Pancreas Cancer
- Almudena Espin Perez, PhD, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Biomedical informatics, Stanford University
11:20 am - 11:40 am - Talk 5: A Single-Cell Atlas of Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma
- Zinaida Good, PhD, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Stanford Cancer Center, Stanford University
11:40 am - 12:40 pm - Lunch Break
Afternoon Session
12:40 pm - 1:10 pm - Talk 6: CRISPR Screens Identify Novel Targets Regulating Tumor Immune Microenvironment
- Xiaole Shirley Liu, PhD, Professor of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Co-director, Center for Functional Cancer Epigenetics, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
1:10 pm - 1:40 pm - Talk 7: Single-Cell RNA-Seq Coupled with Clonal Analysis Reveals Novel Th17 Systemic Dynamics during Homeostasis and Autoimmune Disease
- Meromit Singer, PhD, Assistant Professor of Data Science, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and the Department of Immunology, Harvard Medical School
1:40 pm - 1:45 pm - Closing and Adjournment
- Andrew Gentles, PhD, Assistant Professor of Medicine (Biomedical Informatics) and , by courtesy, of Biomedical Data Science, Stanford University
- Aaron Newman, PhD, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Data Science, Stanford University