Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, New York
August 13-17, 2008
The specific goal of this conference is to bring together a diverse group of scientists studying various molecular, genetic, biochemical and animal model approaches to the analysis of cancer. Junior and senior researchers will join to discuss their latest research findings and technical approaches toward the analysis of cancer models and mechanisms. Topics & Discussion Leaders:
• Cancer Genetics & Epigenetics
Lynda Chin, Harvard Medical School
Dean Felsher, Stanford University School of Medicine
• Mouse Models of Cancer
Guillermina Lozano, U.T.M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
Terry Van Dyke, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• Stem Cells and Organismal Development
Sean Morrison, University of Michigan
Tyler Jacks, HHMI/MIT
• Signaling Mechanisms
Jeffrey Settleman, Harvard Medical School
Reuben Shaw, The Salk Institute
• Microenvironment & Inflammation
Kornelia Polyak, Johns Hopkins Oncology Center
Zena Werb, University of California, San Francisco
• Experimental Therapeutics
Susan Horwitz, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
William Weiss, University of California, San Francisco
• DNA Damage and Cell Cycle Checkpoints
Jiri Lukas, Danish Cancer Society Denmark
Helen Piwnica-Worms, HHMI/Washington University
• Senescence & Apoptosis
Laura Attardi, Stanford University
Moshe Oren, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel Abstracts should contain only new and unpublished material and must be submitted electronically by the abstract deadline. Selection of material for oral and poster presentation will be made by the organizers and individual session chairs.
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