The Schedule
Day 1
Friday, March 31st
Registration 11:00 - 12:00 (Bunker Hill Room Foyer)
12:00 - 1:00
Lunch
Noe Terrace
1:00 - 1:15
Introductory Remarks
Bunker Hill Room
Arthur Lander - CCBS Center Director
1:15 - 2:35
Faculty Research Talks
Bunker Hill Room
1:15 - 1:35 Wei Li
1:35 - 1:55 Nir Drayman
1:55 - 2:15 Chris Halbrook
2:15 - 2:35 Barbara Jusiak
5-min Break
2:40 - 3:10
2022 Opportunity Award Recipient Talks
Bunker Hill Room
2:40 - 2:55 Defining epigenetic drivers of metastasis using cancer de- differentiation theory
Tatyana Lev (Lawson lab), Dennis Ma (Kessenbrock lab) and
Ashley Avila (Downing lab)
2:55 - 3:10 Untangling spaghetti and meatballs: theory-driven feature selection for cell state classification in single-cell transcriptomics
Emmanuel Dollinger (Nie lab), Venus Sosa Inglesias (Atwood lab), and Kai Silkwood (Lander lab)
3:10 - 3:20
Announcement of 2023 Opportunity Award Competition Bunker Hill Room
3:20 - 4:45
Poster Session I/Coffee Break
Watercourt Room
4:45 - 5:45
Topic 1: Reports of Center and MCSB Activities
Bunker Hill Room
Arthur Lander - CCBS Director
John Lowengrub - MCSB Director
5:45 - 6:20
Topic 2: Additional new and ongoing activities
Bunker Hill Room
Bogi Andersen - UCI Skin
Sam Morabito - GenPALs
Suzanne Sandmeyer - Spatial-omics
German Enciso - Foundations of Sys Bio Short Course
Elizabeth Read - MCSB Curriculum Committee
David Fruman - Cancer Research Institute
Erica Ward & Alice Vo - MCSB DEI Taskforce
6:30 - 8:00
Reception
Noe Terrace
Day 2
Saturday, April 1st
8:15 - 8:45
Continental breakfast
Bunker Hill Room Foyer
8:45 - 10:05
Faculty Research Talks
Bunker Hill Room
8:45 - 9:05 Pratik Shah
9:05 - 9:25 Scott Atwood
9:25 - 9:45 Elizabeth Read
9:45 - 10:05 Evgeny Kvon
15-min Coffee Break
10:20 - 10:50
2022 Opportunity Award Recipient Talks
Bunker Hill Room
10:20 - 10:35 Developing a system to understand the vasculature of endothelial cells and its role in mediating the progression of glioblastoma
Sarah Eldeen (Botvinick lab) and Andres Guerrero (Chang lab)
10:35 - 10:50 Revealing the role of neutrophils in BCC tumors using single-cell tracking
Lulu Lai (Atwood lab) and Pei Tan (Miles lab)
10:50 - 12:40
Topic 3: Breakout sessions
Bunker Hill Room, Museum A, and Museum B rooms
10:50 - 11:00 Introduction to breakout session topics
11:00 - 12:40 Breakout sessions
12:40 - 1:45
Poster Session II/Lunch
Watercourt Room
1:45 - 6:30 Free Time
6:30 - 8:30
Banquet
Vespaio Restaurant
225 S. Grand Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90012
Day 3
Sunday, April 2nd
8:15 - 8:45
Continental breakfast
Watercourt Room Foyer
8:45 - 10:45
Topic 3 continued: reports from the breakout sessions
Bunker Hill Room
15-min Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:00
Faculty Research Talks
Bunker Hill Room
11:00 - 11:20 Xiangmin Xu
11:20 - 11:40 Anna Grosberg
11:40 - 12:00 Lee Bardwell
12:00 - 12:20
Topic 4: Other matters
Bunker Hill Room
Outreach, future directions, and funding opportunities
12:20 - 12:25
Closing Remarks
Bunker Hill Room
1:00 -