Registration Please use the form below to register for the upcoming NCI Emerging Technologies Seminar Series. First Name Last Name Email Email Confirm email Select all upcoming seminars you would like to attend: 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. May 23, 2023 2:00 - 3:00pm ET Title: Artificial Intelligence and Computational Imaging: Opportunities for Precision Medicine. Speaker: Pallavi Tiwari, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison. Content: Dr. Tiwari will describe her lab's recent efforts to develop machine learning techniques to capture tumor biology as observed across non-invasive imaging, histopathology, and omics data. June 20, 2023 2:00 - 3:00pm ET Title: Multiplexed EV analysis for early cancer detection. Speaker: Ralph Weissleder, M.D., Ph.D., Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. Content: At this seminar, Dr. Weissleder will talk about a novel method for single extracellular vesicle analysis which allows multiplexing (MASEV) and new insights into EV biology and clinical applications. July 18, 2023 2:00 - 3:00pm ET Title: Mapping cellular plasticity in tumor progression and drug resistance. Speaker: Itai Yanai, Ph.D., New York University School of Medicine. Content: Dr. Yanai will discuss new informatics tools for inferring cell state tumor microenvironment maps by integrating data from single-cell and spatial transcriptomics studies. August 15, 2023 2:00 - 3:00pm ET Title: Using genetically diverse mouse models for basic cancer research. Speaker: Muneer Hasham, Ph.D., The Jackson Laboratory. Content: In this seminar, Dr. Hasham will describe a strategy developed in his lab to produce genetically diverse mouse models to study human xenografts, including difficult-to-xenograft tumors, that could allow us to understand the contribution of genetic diversity in the tumor microenvironment to the development of cancers. September 26, 2023 2:00 - 3:00pm ET Title: Bond-selective imaging to unveil hidden signatures in cancers. Speaker: Ji-Xin Cheng, Ph.D., Boston University Photonics Center. Content: Dr. Cheng will discuss novel imaging technologies developed in his lab to enable discovery-driven research towards precision diagnosis and treatment of human diseases. October 24, 2023 2:00 - 3:00pm ET Title: Molecular and computational tools to understand tyrosine phosphorylation in cancer. Speaker: Kristen Naegle, Ph.D., University of Virginia. Content: The Naegle lab uses data-driven approaches to predict and experimental approaches to test the regulation and function of tyrosine phosphorylation in complex networks. In this talk, Dr. Naegle will describe novel chemical methods and computational tools her lab has developed to support this work, with a focus on their use in cancer research. January 16, 2024, 2:00 - 3:00pm ET Title: Uncovering new predictive markers in cancer research with novel tools that define the molecular pathology of the extracellular microenvironment Speaker: Peggi Angel, Ph.D., Medical University of South Carolina. Content: Dr. Angel will describe how her lab has developed novel tools and workflows to target the extracellular microenvironment from clinically archived tissues. She will discuss tool development and ongoing work to understand how the extracellular proteome, including post translational modifications, contributes to cancer progression. February 20, 2024 2:00 - 3:00pm ET Title: Proximity Barcoding Chemoproteomic Platforms to Map and Manipulate Oncogenic Signaling Speaker: Raymond Moellering, Ph.D., University of Chicago. Content: Dr. Moellering will present novel chemical probes and proteomic technologies developed in his lab to expose and exploit signaling mechanisms in cancer and other diseases. March 19 2024 2:00 - 3:00pm ET Title: Viscoelasticity and Cancer. Speaker: David Mooney, Ph.D., Wyss Institute, Harvard University. Content: Dr. Mooney will describe new biomaterial technologies developed in his lab to manipulate cell function, understand how cells sense their physical environment, and recruit and re-educate the immune system to destroy cancer cells. April 23 2024 2:00 – 3:00pm ET Title: Finding neighborhoods in the land of spatial omics Speaker: Kai Tan, Ph.D., Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia & University of Pennsylvania. Content: Dr. Tan will talk about the single cell spatial-omics informatics tool CytoCommunity, which is designed to identify condition-specific cellular clusters in tissue for interpretation of cell function and cell-cell communication. May 21 2024 2:00-3:00pm ET Title: DNA origami vaccine (DoriVac) for cancer and infectious diseases Speaker: Yang Claire Zeng, M.D., Ph.D., Wyss Institute and Dana Farber Cancer Institute Content: During this seminar, Dr. Zeng will describe a DNA origami vaccine platform called DoriVac. The approach allows delivery of both the antigen and the adjuvant on the same particle, allowing them to work together to create a very strong and selective immune response, as well as promoting long-term memory to prevent cancer from returning. June 25 2024 2:00-3:00pm ET June 25 2024 2:00-3:00pm ET Title: Representing and Embedding Tissue Structures Speaker: Dana Pe'er, Ph.D., Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Content: Dr. Pe'er will share about new bioinformatics tools to explore the complex tumor microenvironment as part of the Cancer Moonshot Human Tumor Atlas Network. July 16 2024 2:00-3:00pm ET - Early Career Session Speaker 1: Ino de Bruijn, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Title 1: Exploring Multimodal Cancer Data via cBioPortal and the HTAN Portal Speaker 2: Erin Wissler Gerdes, University of Iowa Title 2: Evaluating Usability and Feasibility of Implementing Cancer Epidemiology Maps for SEER Registry End Users Content: During this seminar, two early career researchers will share about new informatics tools they're developing to advance cancer research. Ino de Bruijn will share about the HTAN Data Portal and the open source cBioPortal tool for visualization, analysis, and download of cancer genomics data being developed in Dr. Nikolaus Schultz's lab. Erin Wissler Gerdes will present on the implementation, evaluation, and usability of an interactive risk mapping tool to estimate cancer rates and risk in small geographic regions being developed in Dr. Jacob Oleson's lab. August 20 2024 2:00-3:00pm ET Title: Detecting and characterizing the structure of extrachromosomal DNA Speaker: Vineet Bafna, Ph.D., University of California, San Diego Content: During this seminar, Dr. Bafna will describe new algorithms and forthcoming tools to serve the exciting field of extrachromosomal DNA (ecDNA). This includes the Community Accessible Pipeline for ecDNA Reconstruction (CAPER) platform to elucidate the structure, function, and evolution of ecDNA. Submit Leave this field blank
