Agenda

Shared Resources Day is an opportunity to learn about the shared resources available at the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center to help advance cancer research programs. Activities will include informational talks on the six Cancer Center shared resources, short discussions from users about their science and how it has been advanced through the use of the shared resources, networking, and more.

9:30am REGISTRATION

10:00am WELCOME & OPENING REMARKS

Michael Teitell, MD, PhD

Professor & Latta Endowed Chair in Pathology

Director, UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center

President, UCLA Jonsson Cancer Center Foundation

Zoran Galić, PhD

Professor, Department of Medicine, Hematology/Oncology

Director of Shared Resources, UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center

Director, Flow Cytometry Shared Resource

10:15am | DISCOVERY OF A FIRST-IN-HUMAN DEOXYCITIDINE KINASE INHIBITOR

Caius Radu, MD

Professor, Department of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology

Co-Director, UCLA Health JCCC Cancer Molecular Imaging, Nanotechnology and Theranostics Research Program

10:45am | ENGINEERING A POTENT T CELL RESPONSE AGAINST MELANOMA

Cristina Puig Saus, PhD

Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics

Department of Surgery, Division of Surgical Oncology

11:15am | TRACKING THE ROOT OF LEUKEMIA WITH SINGLE CELL OMICS

Hanna Mikkola, MD, PhD

Professor, Department of Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology

Co-Director, UCLA Health JCCC Epigenomics, RNA and Gene Regulation Research Program

11:45am | OVERVIEW OF THE UCLA PROTEOMICS SHARED RESOURCE

James Wohlschlegel, PhD

Professor, Department of Biological Chemistry

12:00pm LUNCH

1:10pm | EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES - NEW NANOVIAL TOOLS FOR CANCER RESEARCH

Dino Di Carlo, PhD

Professor and Chair, Department of Bioengineering

Member, California NanoSystems Institute

2:00pm | ADVANCING SYMPTOM SCIENCE IN BREAST CANCER SURVIVORS

Patricia Ganz, MD

Distinguished Professor, Department of Medicine, Hematology/Oncology

Director, UCLA Health JCCC Cancer Control and Survivorship Research Program

Kate Crespi, PhD

Professor, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, Department of Biostatistics

2:30pm | USING HIGH DIMENSIONAL SPATIAL TECHNOLOGIES TO UNDERSTAND THE TUMOR IMMUNE MICROENVIRONMENT OF BRAIN METASTASES AFTER IMMUNOTHERAPY

Robert Prins, PhD

Professor, Department of Neurosurgery, Department of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology

Director, I3T Seminar Series

3:00pm | SPATIAL MAPPING OF MITOCHONDRIAL NETWORKS IN LUNG CANCER

David Shackelford, PhD

Professor, Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine

3:30pm | CLOSING REMARKS & VOUCHER DRAWING

UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center Shared Resources Day 2024