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