Agenda

7:00 am – 8:00 am Conference Registration & Breakfast

8:00 am – 8:05 am Priyabrata Mukherjee, PhD
8:05 am – 8:10 am Resham Bhattacharya, PhD
8:10 am – 8:20 am Robert Mannel, MD, Director of the OU Health Stephenson Cancer Center
8:20 am – 8:30 am Darrin Akins, PhD, Vice President for Research
8:30 am – 8:40 am Gary Raskob, PhD, Vice President and Provost
8:40 am – 9:00 am Joseph Harroz, Jr., JD, President of the University of Oklahoma
BREAK (9:00 am – 9:05 am)

9:05 am – 9:20 am Session Introduction
Jed Friedman, PhD, Director of the Harold Hamm Diabetes Center, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences
9:20 am – 9:45 am Dafna Bar-Sagi, PhD
NYU Langone Health
9:45 am – 10:10 am Milan Mrksich, PhD
Northwestern University
10:10 am – 10:35 am Viswa Deep Dixit, DVM, PhD
Yale University
10:35 am – 11:00 am Hugo Bellen, DVM, PhD
Baylor College of Medicine
POSTER SESSION (11:00 am – 12:00 pm)
LUNCH (12:00 pm – 12:45pm)

12:45 pm – 1:00 pm Session Introduction
Danny Dhanasekaran,PhD, Director of the Center for Basic Cancer Research, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences
1:00 pm – 1:25 pm Carol Barnes, PhD
University of Arizona
1:25 pm – 1:50 pm Ali Shilatifard, PhD
Northwestern University
1:50 pm – 2:15 pm Natalie Artzi, PhD,
Harvard Medical School
2:15 pm – 2:40 pm E. Dale Abel, MD, PhD,
University of California – Los Angeles
COFFEE BREAK (2:40 pm – 2:55 pm)

2:55 pm – 3:10 pm Session Introduction
Leo Tsiokas, PhD, Chair of the Department of Cell Biology, University of Health Sciences
3:10 pm – 3:35 pm David Mangelsdorf, PhD
UT Southwestern Medical Center
3:35 pm – 4:00 pm Lola Eniola-Adefeso, PhD
University of Michigan
4:00 pm – 4:25 pm Jeremy Reiter, MD, PhD
University of California – San Francisco
4:25 pm – 4:50 pm Ronald Evans, PhD
Salk Institute

7:00 am – 8:00 am Conference Registration & Breakfast

8:00 am – 8:15 am Session Introduction
Resham Bhattacharya, PhD, Co-Leader Cancer Biology Program, OU Health Stephenson Cancer Center, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences
8:15 am – 8:40 am Celeste Simon, PhD
University of Pennsylvania
8:40 am – 9:05 am Darrel Irvine, PhD
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
9:05 am – 9:30 am Gary Raskob, PhD
University of Oklahoma Health Sciences
9:30 am – 9:55 am Ronald DePinho, MD
MD Anderson Cancer Center
COFFEE BREAK (9:55 am – 10:10 am)

10:10 am – 10:25 am Session Introduction
Anirban Maitra, MBBS, Scientific Director of the Sheikh Ahmed Pancreatic Cancer Research Center, MD Anderson Cancer Center
10:25 am – 10:50 am Chad Mirkin, PhD
Northwestern University
10:50 am – 11:15 am Erica Golemis, PhD
Fox Chase Cancer Center
11:15 am – 11:40 am Paul McLean, PhD
University of Colorado
11:40 am – 12:05 pm David Allison, PhD
Indiana University
ROUND TABLE LUNCH (12:05 pm – 1:30 pm)

1:30 pm – 1:45 pm Session Introduction
Dev Mukhopadhyay, PhD, Professor of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Mayo Clinic
1:45 pm – 2:10 pm Arul Chinnaiyan, MD, PhD
University of Michigan
2:10 pm – 2:35 pm Shingo Kajimura, PhD
Harvard Medical School
2:35 pm – 3:00 pm Chi Van Dang, MD, PhD
John Hopkins University
3:00 pm – 3:25 pm Napoleone Ferrara, MD
University of California – San Diego
COFFEE BREAK (3:25 pm – 3:40 pm)

3:40 pm – 3:55 pm Session Introduction
Mary Beth Humphrey, MD, PhD, FACP, Associate Dean of Research, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences
3:55 pm – 4:20 pm Carl June, MD
University of Pennsylvania
4:20 pm – 4:45 pm Priyabrata Mukherjee, PhD
University of Oklahoma Health Sciences