Program and Session Formats

SESSION FORMATS

• Lectures: State-of-the-art lectures by leading experts on molecular biology concepts and the latest developments in molecular oncology
• Small Group Laboratory Sessions that demonstrate the important experimental techniques utilized in molecular biology, including hands-on analysis of genomic and proteomic datasets
• Mentoring Sessions to provide attendees with advice from leading physician-scientists on grant writing and career development

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

LECTURES

• The Cancer Epigenome: Its Origins, Contributions to Tumorigenesis, and Translational Implications
  Stephen B. Baylin, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
• Molecular Pathology of Acute Leukemia
  James R. Downing, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, TN
• Integrated and Functional Genomic Studies of Human Cancer
  Levi A. Garraway, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA
• Lung Cancer Chemoprevention: A Translational Tale
  Mark W. Geraci, University of Colorado Health Science Center, Aurora, CO
• Molecular Pathogenesis of the von Hippel-Lindau Hereditary Cancer Syndrome: Implications for Oxygen Sensing
  William G. Kaelin Jr., Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA
• Overcoming Resistance to Molecularly Targeted Therapy
  Charles L. Sawyers, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY
• The Discovery and Application of Effective Cancer Therapeutics
  William R. Sellers, Novartis Institutes of BioMedical Research, Cambridge, MA
• Aberrant Ras Signaling in Cancer
  Kevin M. Shannon, University of California, San Francisco, CA
• Assessment of Biologic Impact of Immunotherapeutic Agents
  Padmanee Sharma, UT M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
• Modeling and Manipulating Cancer in Mice
  David A. Tuveson, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Cambridge, England
  
  Additional lectures to be announced

LABORATORIES

• Tools for Successful Gene Expression Analysis: From RNA to Real-Time RT-PCR
  Camilla Heinzmann, QIAGEN, Inc., Valencia, CA
• Protein Purification and Sub-fractionation for Protein Characterization
  Thomas Graeber and Parag Mallick, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
• Genetic Systems for Analyzing the Role of Interacting Proteins in Cancer Cells
  Robert A. Sclafani, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver, CO
• Bioinformatics 101
  Andy Baxevanis, Tyra Wolfsberg, and Gretchen Gibney, National Human Genome Research Institute, Bethesda, MD
• Microarray Analysis in Cancer Research
  Paul S. Meltzer, National Human Genome Research Institute, Bethesda, MD