Events

When and Where​

Thursday, April 3, 2025, from 2:00 pm to 5:30 pm

Florence Irving Auditorium, ICRC 1st floor and adjacent small conference room​

Agenda

• 2:00 to 2:15 pm: Welcome

• 2:15 to 3:45 pm: Paper of the Year recipients talk

  • 2:15 pm: Ilaria Baldassarri, PhD student (mentor: Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic, PhD)​

    • "An engineered model of metastatic colonization of human bone marrow reveals breast cancer cell remodeling of the hematopoietic niche"

  • 2:30 pm: Tala, PhD (mentor: Jianwen Que, MD, PhD)​

    • "Sympathetic Neurons Promote Small Cell Lung Cancer through the β2-Adrenergic Receptor"​

  • 2:45 pm: Kausik Regunath, PhD (mentors: Carol Prives, PhD, and Raul Rabadan, PhD) ​

    • "Systematic Characterization of p53-Regulated Long Noncoding RNAs across Human Cancers Reveals Remarkable Heterogeneity among Different Tumor Types" ​

  • 3:00 pm: Longfei Gao, PhD (mentor: Lei Ding, PhD) ​

    • "Hematopoietic stem cell niche generation and maintenance are distinguishable by an epitranscriptomic program" ​

  • 3:15 pm: Jiacheng Gu, PhD student (mentor: Jellert Gaublomme, PhD)​

    • "Mapping multimodal phenotypes to perturbations in cells and tissue with CRISPRmap"​

  • 3:30 pm: Jacob Dubner, medical student (mentor: Alfred Neugut, MD) ​

    • "The association of HIV status with triple-negative breast cancer in patients with breast cancer in South Africa: a cross-sectional analysis of case-only data from a prospective cohort study" ​

• 3:45 to 4:00 pm: Keynote talk by Melissa P. Beauchemin, PhD, RN, an Assistant Professor of Nursing at Columbia University and a past TAM member

• 4:00 to 4:05 pm: Closing remarks

• 4:05 pm to 5:30 pm: TAM poster session​

Registration

Register to attend here. Walk-ins also welcomed. All trainees, lab members, and faculty members are invited to attend.