The Role of Histone Mutations in Pediatric High-Grade Glioma

by James Robinson, PhD, Assistant Professor, The Hormel Institute, Austin, MN

Forcing Glioma Aggression & Recurrence by Valarie Weaver, PhDDirector of the Center for Bioengineering & Tissue Regeneration University of California - San Francisco

Bodystorming
Dave Odde, PhD, Professor of Biomedical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN

Carl Flink, Professor of Dance, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN

KEYNOTE - Dr. John Ohlfest Memorial Lecture: Pediatric High-Grade Glioma: Cancer at the Crossroads of Development and Epigenetics

Presented by Suzanne Baker, PhD
Director of the Division of Brain Tumor Research, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, TN

Trouble Inside and Out: Glioma Exosomes Alter Signaling, Metabolism, and Extracellular Environment of Normal Brain Cells

Presented by Michael Graner, PhD
Associate Professor, Neurosurgery, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO

Brain Tumor Therapies - Where Have We Gone Wrong?

Presented by Jann Sarkaria, MD
Professor, Radiation Oncology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN

The Revolution in Molecular Diagnostics for Human Brain Tumors

Presented by Andrew Venteicher, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Neurosurgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN

Wecome: Day 2 and Patient Story
Courtney Burnett, MD

Advances in Brain Tumor Imaging: Current Clinical Utilization and Future Applications
Christopher Wilke, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN

Molecular Classification and Characterization of Pediatric Brain Tumors
Marcel Kool, PhD, Groupleader Division of Pediatric Neuro-Oncology, Hopp Children’s Cancer Center, Heidelberg, Germany

"CANINE" Canine ImmuNEurotherapeutics: A Comparative Genomics, Oncology and Immunotherapy Consortium
M.R. Chambers, DVM, MD, Professor, Department of Neurosurgery, University of Alabama at Birmingham

Speaker Q&A Session
with Dr. Forest White

Speaker Q&A Session
with Dr. James Robinson

Speaker Q&A Session
with Dr. Valerie Weaver

Speaker Q&A Session with
Drs. Marcel Kool and Renee Chambers