CEWG Seminar Series
Upcoming cancer evolution Seminars
DeCember 2022
Thursday, December 1, 2022
11:00 am – 1:00 pm EST
Moderator:
Frank H. Laukien, PhD, Bruker Corporation, Harvard University
Anna D. Barker, PhD, FAACR, Lawrence J. Ellison Institute for Transformative Medicine
Speakers:
TBA
TBA
November 2022
Thursday, November 3, 2022
11:00 am – 1:00 pm EST
Moderator:
George H. Poste, DVM, PhD, FRC Path, F Med Sci, CBE, FRS, Arizona State University
Speakers:
TBA
TBA
october 2022
Thursday, October 6, 2022
11:00 am – 1:30 pm EST
Moderator:
Robert H. Gatenby, MD, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute
Speakers:
Joel Brown, PhD, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute
Damon R. Reed, MD, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute
Alexander Anderson, PhD, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute
September 2022
Thursday, September 8, 2022
11:00 am – 1:00 pm EST
Moderator:
Jason Somarelli, PhD, Duke University
Speakers:
TBA
TBA
JuLY 2022
Thursday, July 7, 2022
11:00 am – 1:00 pm EST
Moderator:
Sarah R. Amend, PhD, John Hopkins University
Speakers:
TBA
TBA
Previous seminars
June 2022
Thursday, June 2, 2022
11:00 am – 1:00 pm EST
Moderator:
Perry S. Marshall, BS, Marketing Consultant and Author
Speakers:
Michael Levin, PhD, Tufts University
František Baluška, PhD, University of Bonn
May 2022
Thursday, May 5, 2022
11:00 am – 1:00 pm EST
Moderator:
Michael Gillette, MD, PhD, The Broad Institute
Speakers:
David Reich PhD, Harvard Medical School
“Insights into Evolutionary Analysis from the Ancient DNA Revolution”
Gad Getz, PhD, Harvard Medical School
“Convergent Evolution as a key signal for discovering mechanisms of resistance to cancer therapy”
March and April 2022
Please note that the AACR Cancer Evolution Working Group Seminar Series will be postponed during the months of March and April due to the 2022 AACR Annual Meeting in New Orleans, LA.
February 2022
Thursday, February 3, 2022
11:00 am – 12:30 pm EST
Moderator:
Susan Rosenberg, PhD, Baylor College of Medicine
Speakers:
Carlo C. Maley, PhD, Arizona State University
Daniel Jarosz, PhD, Stanford University School of Medicine
Miroslav Radman, PhD, Mediterranean Institute for Life Sciences
January 2022
Thursday, January 6, 2022
11:00 am – 1:00 pm EST
Moderator:
Giulia C. Kennedy, PhD, Veracyte, Inc.
Speakers:
Wendy J. Fantl, PhD, Stanford University
Klaus Lindpaintner, MD, MPH, InterVenn Biosciences
December 2021
Thursday, December 2, 2021
11:00 am – 12:30 pm EST
Moderator:
George Poste, DVM, PhD, FMedSci, FRS, Arizona State University
Speakers:
Alissa Weaver, MD, PhD, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
“The role of exosomes in tumor angiogenesis and metastasis”
David C. Lyden, MD, PhD, Weill Cornell Medical College
“Extracellular Vesicles as Biomarkers for Cancer Detection and Determining Cancer Type”
November 2021
Thursday, November 4, 2021
11:00 am – 12:30 pm EDT
Moderator:
Frank H. Laukien, PhD, Bruker Corporation
Speakers:
Doru M. Paul, MD, PhD, Cornell Medicine
Aurora M. Nedelcu, PhD, University of New Brunswick
“A Systemic View of Cancer: The Unexplored Links Between Cancer and the Organism’s Internal ‘climate'”
Gary Patti, PhD, Washington University in St. Louis
“Oncogenic Mechanisms for Co-Opting Healthy Tissue Metabolism to Drive Tumor Growth”
Susan M. Rosenberg, PhD, Baylor College of Medicine
“Looking upstream of evolution at the DNA Damageome and Cancer, and Stess-induced Mutations”
October 2021
October 7, 2021
11:00 am – 12:30 pm EDT
Moderator:
Jeff Townsend, PhD, Yale School of Public Health
Speakers:
Vincent Cannataro, PhD, Emmanuel College
“Attribution of Cancer Origins to Endogenous, Exogenous, and Preventable Mutational Processes”
David McCandlish, PhD, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
“Modeling High-Dimensional Cancer Fitness Landscapes”
September 2021
September 2, 2021
11:00 am – 12:30 pm EDT
Moderator:
Jason Somarelli, PhD, Duke Cancer Institute
Speakers:
Gábor Balázsi, PhD, Stony Brook University
“Mapping the Landscapes of Chemoresistance and Metastasis”
James DeGregori, PhD, University of Colorado Anschutz School of Medicine
“Aging, Somatic Evolution, and Cancer – the Inexorable Link”
To join the AACR Cancer Evolution Working Group, please email AACR staff.