7th Midwest Tumor Microenvironment Meeting
Hosted by the University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS
| 12:00 p.m. | Registration check-in begins |
| 1:00-1:15 p.m. | Welcome |
| 1:15-2:30 p.m. | Oral Presentations: Session I. Modeling the Tumor Microenvironment |
| Chair: Young Hye Song, PhD, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering, University of Arkansas Speaker 1: Aubie Shaw, PhD, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Sciences, University of Minnesota Speaker 2: Steve Seung-Young Lee, PhD, Assistant Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago Young Investigator Awardee: Ashlee Ford Versypt, PhD, Associate Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York |
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| 2:30-2:50 p.m. | Coffee break |
| 2:50-3:20 p.m. | NCI-Supported Microenvironment Research: Perspectives and Opportunities |
| Jeffrey Hildesheim, PhD, Chief, Tumor Biology and Microenvironment Branch, National Cancer Institute |
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| 3:20-4:00 p.m. | Panel discussion: "Lessons on NIH reviewing from three guys named Mike" |
| Chair: Shrikant Anant, PhD, Kansas Mason Professor of Cancer Biology & Tom and Teresa Walsh Professor of Cancer Prevention, University of Kansas Medical Center Panelist 1: Michael Henry, PhD, Professor of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, University of Iowa Panelist 2: Michael Dwinell, PhD, Professor of Microbiology and Immunology, Medical College of Wisconsin Panelist 3: Michael Wendt, PhD, Associate Professor Medicinal Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Purdue University |
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| 4:00-5:00 p.m. | Poster Blitz |
| 5:00-6:30 p.m. | Poster Session A (poster numbers 1-42) |
| 6:30-9:00 p.m. | Dinner |
| 7:00-7:30 a.m. | Yoga |
| 7:00-8:00 a.m. | Breakfast |
| 8:00-9:00 a.m. | Plenary Session: Keynote Address |
| Marina Pasca di Magliano, PhD Maude T. Lane Professor of Surgical Immunology, University of Michigan |
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| 9:00-10:15 a.m. | Oral Presentations: Session II. Stromal Tumor Crosstalk |
| Chair: Guangyong Peng, MD, PhD, Professor of Medicine, Saint Louis University School of Medicine Speaker 1: Lisa Arendt, PhD, Assistant Professor of Comparative Biosciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison Speaker 2: Sunila Pradeep, PhD, Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Medical College of Wisconsin Young Investigator Awardee: Leah Cook, PhD, Assistant Professor, Pathology and Microbiology, University of Nebraska Medical Center |
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| 10:15-10:40 a.m. | Coffee break |
| 10:45-12:00 p.m. | Oral Presentations: Session III. Functions of the Stroma in Cancer |
| Chair: Luisa Iruela-Arispe, PhD, Stephen Walter Ranson Professor of Cell Biology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL Speaker 1: Laurie Littlepage, PhD, Associate Professor of Chemistry, University of Notre Dame Speaker 2: Paolo Provenzano, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, University of Minnesota Young Investigator Awardee: Pilar de la Puente, PhD, Assistant Professor, University of South Dakota Sanford School of Medicine |
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| Noon-1:00 p.m. | Lunch |
| 1:00-2:15 p.m. | Poster Blitz |
| 2:15-3:30 p.m. | Oral Presentations: Session VI. TME Interactome in Cancer Progression |
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Chair: Pankaj Singh, PhD, Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Nebraska |
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| 3:30-4:00 p.m. | Coffee break |
| 4:00-5:30 p.m. | Poster Session B (poster numbers 42-84) |
| 5:30-10:00 p.m. | Travel to, and Social & Dinner at Char Bar 4050 Pennsylvania Ave, Kansas City, MO 64111 |
| 7:30-8:30 a.m. | Breakfast |
| 8:45-10:15 p.m. | Oral Presentations: Session V. Microbes and Inflammation in Cancer |
| Chair: Shahid Umar, PhD, Professor & Vice Chair of Surgery, University of Kansas Medical Center Speaker 1: Grace Yi Chen, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Hematology and Oncology, University of Michigan Speaker 2: Thomas M. Attard, MD, Professor of Pediatrics, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine Speaker 3: Mary Philip, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Pathology, Microbiology, Immunology, Vanderbilt University Young Investigator Awardee: Benjamin L. Woolbright, PhD, Research Assistant Professor, Urology, University of Kansas Medical Center |
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| 10:15-10:40 a.m. | Coffee Break |
| 10:45-Noon | Oral Presentations: Session VI. Acellular Components and Novel Therapeutics |
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Chair: Danny Dhanasekaran, PhD, Professor of Cell Biology, University of Oklahoma Health |
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| Noon | Adieu with a Box Lunch |