This series aims to enhance cohesion and collaboration between cancer researchers within the Parnassus Campus, as well as with other HDFCCC locations.
Images courtesy of Jordan Briscoe and Jeroen Roose.
1st Biannual 2023 Symposium Highlighting Cancer Research at Parnassus
Spatial Profiling to Dissect Cellular Networks Across Diseases
Monday, May 22, 2023 | 9:45 am - 4:30 pm
HSW 301, Parnassus Campus
Registration: Closed
We have reached capacity for this event, and registration is now closed. You may join the waitlist here (click "reserve a spot" and "join waitlist"). Thank you!
Agenda
| 9:45 am | Welcome Alexis Combes, PhD, Assistant Professor of Pathology, UCSF |
| Session 1: Spatial Architecture of Cancer | |
| 10:00 am | Building a Spatially Resolved Atlas of the Human Breast during Normal Homeostasis and Cancer Kai Kessenbrock, PhD, Assistant Professor of Biological Chemistry, UC Irvine |
| 10:25 am | CD8 T Cell Responses to Cancer Immunotherapy in Lymph Nodes Matthew Spitzer, PhD, Associate Professor of Otolaryngology – Head & Neck Surgery and Microbiology & Immunology, UCSF |
| 10:50 am | Spatially Organized Immune Hubs in Colon Cancer Karin Pelka, PhD, Assistant Investigator, Gladstone Institutes; Assistant Professor of Microbiology & Immunology, UCSF |
| 11:15 am | Tissue Architecture Driven by Immune Cells John Hickey, PhD, Postdoctoral Scholar, Dept. of Microbiology & Immunology, Stanford University |
| 11:40 am | An Overview of Spatial Transcriptomics Technologies, Translational Challenges, and Future Developments Eric Lubeck, PhD, Senior Scientist, Genentech |
| 12:05 pm | Lunch |
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Session 2: Analytical Methods for Spatial Omics |
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| 1:00 pm | Computational Biology for Spatial Technologies Angela Pisco, PhD, Director of Computational Biology, Insitro |
| 1:25 pm | Machine Learning Methods for Spatial Genomics Data Barbara Engelhardt, PhD, Senior Investigator, Gladstone Institutes; Professor of Biomedical Data Science, Stanford University |
| 1:50 pm | Integrating Histology Imaging Data and Spatial Transcriptomics using Graph Convolutional Network Vivek Ramaswamy, MS, Software Engineer, Gladstone Institutes |
| 2:15 pm | Break |
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Session 3: Spatial Omics Decodes Cellular Network Across Tissues |
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| 2:40 pm | Optimizing Spatial Transcriptomics to Study Neuroimmune Communication Anna Molofsky, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Psychiatry, UCSF |
| 3:05 pm | Shared Spatial Ontology Across Cancer, Pregnancy, and Tuberculosis Michael Angelo, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Pathology, Stanford University |
| 3:30 pm | Spatial Multi-omics to Study Anti-integrin Therapy in Ulcerative Colitis Mike Kattah, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Gastroenterology, UCSF |
| 3:55 pm | Spatial Single Cell Maps of the Human Intestine Michael Snyder, PhD, Professor and Chair of Genetics, Stanford University |
| 4:20 pm | Happy Hour (Nursing Mezzanine) |
Faculty Organizers and Chairs
Karin Pelka, PhD; Mike Kattah, MD, PhD; Alexis Combes, PhD; and Jeroen Roose, PhD
Event Sponsors
We are grateful to the following sponsors who supported this event:
10x Genomics | NanoString | Vizgen
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