NCI Emerging Technologies Seminar Series (Registration)

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July 26, 2022, 2:00–3:00 pm ET

Title: Rethinking cancer targeting strategies: new synthetic sensors and circuits in the era of smart cell therapeutics.
Speaker: Wendell Lim, Ph.D., University of California – San Francisco
Content: Dr. Lim will share about the new synthetic biology tools his team has created to engineer next-generation therapeutic immune cells that can more effectively kill tumor cells from a broad range of challenging solid tumors.

August 23, 2022 2:00 - 3:00pm ET

Title: Placing mass spectrometry in the hands of medical professionals to help guide treatment decisions
Speaker: Livia Schiavinato Eberlin, Ph.D., Baylor College of Medicine
Content: Dr. Eberlin will discuss new technologies developed by her group to assess molecular predictors of disease state from tissue samples, and how this tool can be used clinically for precision medicine guided surgical resection.

September 20, 2022 2:00 - 3:00pm ET

Title: Lab on a particle technology for sorting viable single immune cells based on their function
Speaker: Dino Di Carlo, Ph.D., University of California – Los Angeles
Content: Dr. Di Carlo will share about the “lab on a particle” technology being developed in his lab to enable scalable selection of functional immune cells, driving next-generation cancer immunotherapeutic design.

October 18, 2022 2:00 - 3:00pm ET

Title: Simple and low-cost optical imaging tools for label-free molecular imaging and 3D microscopy and their applications in biomedicine
Speaker: Francisco (Paco) Robles, Ph.D., Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University
Content: Dr. Robles will talk about work his team is leading to advance a novel molecular and 3D optical imaging methods to overcome current limitations in biomedicine ranging from hematology to cancer detection.

November 17, 2022 12:00 - 1:00pm ET

Title: Development of a Visualization Approach to Enhance Cancer Moonshot Data
Speaker:Zeynep Gumus, Ph.D., Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai
Content:This seminar is hosted in collaboration with the Cancer Moonshot Seminar Series and the DataViz + Cancer program. Dr. Gumus will talk about a user-friendly tool her group is developing to enable researchers of all computational skill levels to visually analyze and explore immune monitoring assay results.

January 25, 2023 2:00 - 3:00pm ET

Title: High-throughput and High-dimensional Single T cell Profiling
Speaker: Ning (Jenny) Jiang, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
Content: In this talk, Dr. Jenny Jiang will discuss a newly developed technology to link T cell antigen specificity to TCR sequences, gene expression, and phenotyping at a single-cell level and in a high-throughput manner.

February 21, 2023 2:00 - 3:00pm ET

Title: EMERSE: an easy-to-use, self-service search engine and chart review tool for EHR notes
Speaker: David Hanauer, M.D., M.S., University of Michigan
Content: At this seminar, Dr. Hanauer will describe EMERSE - the Electronic Medical Record Search Engine. EMERSE is a fast and powerful tool designed to help non-technical researchers access and make sense of free text (unstructured) notes from electronic health records (EHRs). It can help with a wide range of clinical research tasks including cohort identification, eligibility determination, data abstraction, and more.

March 28, 2023 2:00 - 3:00pm ET

Title: Advancing Genomic Technologies for Insights into Extrachromosomal Circular DNA (ecDNA) Structures and Function.
Speaker: Chia-Lin Wei, Ph.D., Jackson Laboratory
Content: At this seminar, Dr. Wei will discuss innovative genomic technologies that can contribute to our understanding of the diversity and role of ecDNA in promoting oncogenesis.

April 18, 2023 2:00 - 3:00pm ET

Title: Finding rare cells for therapeutic applications.
Speaker: Shana Kelley, Ph.D., Northwestern University
Content: At this seminar, Dr. Kelley will talk about a new device to isolate circulating tumor cells and classify their biochemical state.