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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.

09/11	Moderators: Emma Uible & Robby Beal Roman Caceres, CCB PhD Student, Dr. Biplab Dasgupta Lab, Emory University, Atlanta, GA "The Role of SCD in Glioblastoma and Associated Angiogenesis" Makenzie Fourman, CCB PhD Student, Dr. Amanda Wasylishen Lab, UC Dept. of Cancer Biology “Delineating tumor suppressive function of Men1 in the exocrine pancreas”
09/18	Moderators: Levi Fox & Sam Zumwalde Zhixin Lu, CCB PhD Student, Dr. Susan Waltz Lab, UC Dept. of Cancer Biology "Investigating RON signaling in breast cancer: From EGFR therapy resistance to tumor microenvironment modulation" Camille Stevenson, CCB PhD Student, Dr. Chunying Du Lab, UC, Dept. of Cancer Biology “Elucidating the role of BRUCE in MASH pathogenesis”
09/25	Moderators: Emily Wachter & Josh Jones Issac Choi, CCB PhD Student, Dr. Daniel Starczynowski Lab, CCHMC Div. of Experimental Hematology & Cancer Biology "Novel Innate-Immune/Inflammation signaling effector in Acute Myeloid Leukemia" Paula Saez Raez, CCB PhD Student, Dr. Courtney Jones Lab, CCHMC Div. of Experimental Hematology & Cancer Biology “Role of Protein Glutathionylation on Driving Acute Myeloid Leukemia through Oxidative Phosphorylation Regulation"
10/02	Moderators: Bianca Ruffolo & Grace Goodhart Dr. Nina Steele Assistant Professor, Dept. of Internal Medicine, UC, College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH Host: Seminar Committee Seminar Title: TBD
10/16	Moderators: Sara Alharbi & Taylor Joseph Bianca Ruffolo, MSTP/CCB PhD Student, Dr. Susanne Wells Lab, CCHMC Div. of Experimental Hematology & Cancer Biology "Metabolic reprogramming in Fanconi Anemia-deficient head and neck squamous cell carcinoma" Eugene Lee, PhD, Dr. Jiajie Diao Lab, UC Dept. of Cancer Biology "Automated Analysis of Organelle Status using Computer Vision and Large Language Models"
10/23	Moderators: Jacob Kurek & Atharva Mahale Xiaoqin Zhu, CCB PhD Student, Dr. Andrew Volk Lab, CCHMC Div. of Experimental Hematology & Cancer Biology "HNRNPL is a novel replication factor maintaining cell fate in Acute Myeloid Leukemia" Zihang Cheng, PhD, Dr. Jiajie Diao Lab, UC Dept. of Cancer Biology “Subcellular Toxicity of Nanoparticles in Sunscreens”
10/30	Moderators: Taylor Lange & Sophia Philbrook Charlie Nims, CCB PhD Student, Dr. Nicolas Nassar Lab, CCHMC Div. of Experimental Hematology & Cancer Biology "The VAV3 Inhibitor IODVA1 sensitizes B-ALL to Lysine Demethylase 1A Inhibition" Grant Hagedorn, CCB PhD Student, Dr. Krushna Patra Lab, UC Dept. of Cancer Biology “Metabolic remodeling of mitochondrial form supports GNAS (GA_s) mutant pancreas cancer growth”
11/06	Moderators: Lindsay Bischoff & TJ Deere Angelle Jones, CCB PhD Student, Dr. Susan Waltz Lab, UC Dept. of Cancer Biology "Defining the role of the RON receptor tyrosine kinase within prostate tumorigenesis" Aditya Yadav, PhD, Dr. Jiajie Diao Lab, UC Dept. of Cancer Biology "Understanding the Role of Polyethylene Glycol Coating in Reducing the Subcellular Toxicity of MXene Nanoparticles Using a Large Multimodal Model"
11/13	Moderators: Grant Hagedorn & Sreelakshmi Sanam Dr. Xinghong Dai Assistant Professor, Dept. of Physiology & Biophysics, Case Western Reserve University, School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH Seminar Title: TBD Host: Dr. Jiajie Diao, UC Dept. of Cancer Biology
12/11	Moderators: Haley Todd & Joseph Ungvary Dr. Ruey-Hwa Chen Distinguished Research Fellow, Institute of Biological Chemistry, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan “Purinosome: assembly mechanisms and biological functions” Host: Dr. Jun-Lin Guan, UC Dept. of Cancer Biology