Schedule

All times are Mountain Standard Time (MST)

Sunday, February 9, 2025

4:00 – 8:00 pm Networking Mixer (Benson Hotel)

Monday, February 10, 2025

7:30 – 8:20 am Breakfast

8:20 – 8:30 am Opening remarks by Melissa Kemp, PhD, Georgia Tech

8:30 – 9:30 am Opening Keynote - Christine Iacobuzio-Donahue, MD, PhD, MSKCC

9:30 – 11:10 am Session #1: Tumor Heterogeneity and Metastasis

• Invited Speaker - Pamela Becker, MD, PhD, City of Hope
• Invited Speaker - Soledad Sosa, PhD, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
• Abstract Speaker - Elizabeth Brunk, PhD, University of North Carolina
• Abstract Speaker - Michelle Barbeau, University of Virginia

11:30 – 1:00 pm Lunch + “Meet the PIs” Lunch Tables

1:00 – 2:40 pm Session #2: Metabolism at Scale

• Invited Speaker - Sriram Chandrasekaran, PhD, University of Michigan
• Invited Speaker - Cholsoon Jang, PhD, UC Irvine
• Abstract Speaker - Bethany Veo, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
• Abstract Speaker - Yapeng Su, PhD, Fred Hutch Cancer Center

2:40 – 3:10 pm Coffee Break

3:10 – 4:50 pm Session #3: SACB Postdoc Spotlight

• John Metzcar, PhD, University of Minnesota
• Amy E. Pomeroy, PhD, University of North Carolina
• Christian Meyer, PhD, University of Colorado, Boulder
• Raghav Jain, PhD, Pacific Northwest National Lab
• Wei He, PhD, Georgetown University

4:50 – 5:00 pm Lightning talks from selected posters

• Prasanna Vaddi, PhD, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
• Janani Baskaran, Yale University
• Ryan Schildcrout, University of Michigan
• Victor Passanisi, University of Colorado, Boulder
• Adriana Del Pino Herrera, University of Florida
• Angela Bowen, PhD, Sage Bionetworks

5:00 – 6:30 pm Poster session A (with refreshments and snacks)

6:30 – 7:30 pm ACSB / future of SACB conversation (open to all)

Dinner on your own

Tuesday, February 11, 2025

8:00 – 9:00 am Breakfast

9:00 – 10:40 am Session #4: Immunology & Host-tumor Interactions

• Invited Speaker - Paolo Provenzano, PhD, University of Minnesota
• Invited Speaker - Melissa Davis, PhD, Morehouse School of Medicine
• Abstract Speaker - Adam MacLean, PhD, University of Southern California
• Abstract Speaker - David Sanin, PhD, Johns Hopkins University

10:40 – 10:50 am Lightning talks from selected posters

• Rebecca A. Bekker, PhD, University of Southern California
• Lucas Gillenwater, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
• Anisha Datta, MIT
• Shuming Zhang, Johns Hopkins University
• Annie Badenoch, University of Michigan

10:50 – 12:00 pm Poster Session B

12:00 – 1:30 pm Lunch + “Meet the PIs” Lunch Tables

1:30 – 3:10 pm Session #5: Systems Pharmacology

• Invited Speaker - Marc Birtwistle, PhD, Clemson University
• Invited Speaker - Andriy Marusyk, PhD, Moffitt Cancer Center
• Abstract Speaker - Leonard A. Harris, PhD, University of Arkansas
• Abstract Speaker - Emily Bozich, UCLA

3:10 – 4:40 pm Coffee Break

4:40 – 6:20 pm Session # 6: Health Equity for AI in Cancer Systems Biology

• Invited Speaker - Tina Hernandez-Boussard, PhD, Stanford Medicine
• Invited Speaker - Curtis Henry, PhD, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
• Discussion

6:30 – 8:30 pm Conference Dinner

Wednesday, February 12, 2025

8:00 – 9:00 am Breakfast

9:00 – 10:40 am Session #7: Targeting Signal Transduction

• Invited Speaker - Rachel Gottschalk, PhD, University of Pittsburgh
• Invited Speaker - Michael Lee, PhD, UMass Chan Medical School
• Abstract Speaker - Varuna Nangia, University of Colorado, Boulder
• Abstract Speaker - Todd Stukenberg, PhD, University of Virginia

10:40 – 11:00 am Coffee Break

11:00 am – 12:00 pm Closing Keynote - Melissa Kemp, PhD, Georgia Tech

12:00 pm Closing remarks by Paul Macklin, PhD, Indiana University

Note: Invited talks will be limited to 35 minutes total (5 minutes for questions). Selected talks will be limited to 15 minutes total. Poster preview lightning talks will be 2 minutes and meant to be previews of posters.