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The Cancer Biology Seminar Series

This weekly seminar series features lectures by local, national, and international cancer researchers invited by the Department of Cancer Biology. All seminars will be held in person (unless otherwise noted) from Noon to 1:00 pm (EST) in the Rievesch l Auditorium (VONTZ 1100) at the Vontz Center for Molecular Studies.

Refer to the schedule below. For more information, please contact Aimee Bollmer at aimee.bollmer@uc.edu.

01/23	Moderators: Devyani Sharma & Zhiqi Tian Emma Uible, CCB PhD Student, Dr. Daniel Starczynowski Lab, CCHMC “The zymogen form of Caspase-1 is required to fine tune excessive cell-intrinsic inflammation in MDS/AML” Levi Fox, CCB PhD Student, Dr. Susan Waltz Lab, UC Department of Cancer Biology *"RON mediated suppression of tumor intrinsic IFN-I production enables breast cancer growth and metastasis"*
01/30	Moderators: Xiaoqin Zhu & Sara Alharbi Peng Wu, MD, PhD Host: Seminar Committee, UC Department of Cancer Biology Assistant Professor, Division of Oncology, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center; Assistant Professor of Clinical, Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine "Elucidating mechanisms of developmental tumorigenesis using hepatoblastoma as a model"
02/06	Moderators: Emma Uible & Taylor Joseph Annual William J. Larsen Distinguished Lecture Series Ralph DeBerardinis, MD, PhD Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Professor and Director, Eugene McDermott Center for Human Growth and Development and Center for Human Genetics Professor, Children's Research Institute and Pediatrics Director, Genetic and Metabolic Disease Program in Children’s Research Institute, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center "Metabolic outliners in human disease"
02/13	Moderators: Paula Saez Raez & Zhixin Lu Taylor Lange, CCB PhD Student, Dr. Susanne Wells Lab, CCHMC "Roes of the DEK oncoprotein in the development and transformation of human squamous epithelium" Zhiqi Tian, CCB PhD Student, Dr. Jun-Lin Guan Lab, UC Department of Cancer Biology "Munc18 modulates syntaxin phase separation for exocytosis"
02/20	Moderators: Taylor Lange & Kate Von Handorf Christina Towers, PhD Host: Seminar Committee Assistant Professor, Molecular and Cell Biology Laboratory, Salk Institute of Biological Studies, La Jolla, CA “Targeting Autophagy in Cancer”
02/27	Moderators: Megan Bones & Haley Todd Roman Caceres, CCB PhD Student, Dr. Biplab Dasgupta Lab, Emory University, Atlanta, GA "The role of SCD in glioblastoma and associated angiogenesis" Sajad Wani, PhD, Dr. Amanda Wasylishen Lab, UC Department of Cancer Biology "Decoding endogenous retrovirus signature(s) due to loss of the Daxx/Atrx/H3.3 epigenetic axis for insights into pancreatic neuroendocrine tumorigenesis"
03/06	Moderators: Issac Choi & Jacob Kurek Wen-Xing Ding, PhD, FAASLD Host: Dr. Chunying Du, UC Department of Cancer Biology William Warner Abercrombie Professor, Department of Pharmacology, Toxicology and Therapeutics, University of Kansas Medical Center *"Autophagy in liver diseases: too much is as bad as too little"*
03/13	Moderators: Shreya Shyamsunder & Robby Beal Szu-Aun Long, MD, Dr. Andrew Waters Lab, UC Department of Surgery-Oncology "Evaluating direct KRASQ61H inhibition in pancreatic cancer models" Banzhan Ruan, PhD, Dr. Jun-Lin Guan Lab, UC Department of Cancer Biology "Conditional knockout of Tsc1 and RASA1 in endothelial cells leads to capillary barrier dysfunction in mice"
03/27	Moderators: Joe Ungvary & Emily Wachter Jacob Kurek, CCB PhD Student, Dr. Andrew Volk Lab, CCHMC *"Chromatin assembly in terminal erythropoieses"* Devyani Sharma, CCB PhD Student, Dr. Marie-Dominique Filippi Lab, CCHMC "Cardiolipin and the regulation of hematopoietic stem cells"
04/03	Moderators: Sam Zumwalde & Sreelakshmi Sanam Kate Von Handorf, CCB PhD Student, Dr. David Plas Lab, UC Department of Cancer Biology "Tumor microenvironment-conscious kinase targeting in glioblastoma" Dina Secic, CCB PhD Student, Dr. Maria Czyzyk-Krzeska Lab, UC Department of Cancer Biology "Determination of the allocation of copper to cytochrome c oxidase using a non-radioactive Cu tracer and size-exclusion coupled with ICP-MS"
04/10	Moderators: Evan Peters & Julie Fisher Sara Alharbi, CCB PhD Student, Dr. Tim Le Cras Lab, CCHMC "MEK inhibition restores dysregulated genes in human endothelial cells expressing the NRASQ61R mutation identified in kaposiform lymphangiomatosis" Bibek Karki, CCB PhD Student, Dr. Tom Cunningham Lab, UC Department of Cancer Biology "Evolutionary origins and innovations sculpting the mammalian PRPS enzyme complex"
04/17	Moderators: Charlie Nims & Grace Goodhart Lindsay Bischoff, CCB PhD Student, Dr. Elisa Boscolo Lab, CCHMC CARDELL FELLOW “In-vivo investigation of the mechanisms driving venous malformation downstream of mutant TIE2”
04/24	Moderators: Josh Jones & Angelle Jones Antonio Barrientos, PhD Host: Dr. Maria Czyzyk-Krzeska, UC Department of Cancer Biology Professor of Neurology and Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine, Miami FL *"Regulation of Mitochondrial Translation"*