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PROGRAM
Friday, September 25th

8:00 am

Registration & Continental Breakfast

8:50 am

Welcoming Remarks
Gerry Boss, MD - UC San Diego School of Medicine


SESSION I - Metabolism and Cellular Adaptation
J. Silvio Gutkind, PhD - UC San Diego School of Medicine (Moderator)

9:00 am

The Expanding Lexicon of Metabolic Signaling
Jared P. Rutter, PhD - University of Utah School of Medicine

9:30 am

Q&A Discussion

9:40 am

Failing Up: How Mitochondrial Dysfunction Becomes a Metastatic Advantage
Kevin Tharp, PhD - Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

10:10 am

Q&A Discussion

10:20 am

How Nutrients Leave Their Mark: Metabolic Crosstalk with the Epigenome in Cancer and Immunity
Kathryn E. Wellen, PhD - University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine

10:50 am

Q&A Discussion

11:00 am

Break


SESSION II - Immunometabolism and Translational Therapeutics
Brooke Emerling, PhD - Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute (Moderator)

11:15 am

Good to Great and Built to Last: Enabling Immune Cells to Fight Cancer
Jonathan Powell, MD, PhD - Calico Labs

11:45 am

Q&A Discussion

11:55 am

Interrogating and Targeting Stromal Cell Plasticity in Pancreatic Cancer
Ellen Langer, PhD - Oregon Health & Science University

12:25 pm

Q&A Discussion

12:35 pm

Lunch on own (please see registration for a list of suggestions)

2:00 pm

Cholesterol Homeostasis as a Vulnerability in Pancreatic Cancer
David Tuveson, MD, PhD - Cold Springs Harbor Laboratory Cancer Center

2:30 pm

Q&A Discussion


SESSION III - Autophagy, Stress Responses, and Tumor Survival
Christina Towers, PhD - Salk Institute for Biological Studies (Moderator)

2:40 pm

Organelle-Driven Metabolic Adaptation in Pancreatic Cancer Progression
Rushika M. Perera, PhD - UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center

3:10 pm

Q&A Discussion

3:20 pm

Break

3:35 pm

Understanding the Roles of Antioxidants in Health and Disease
Isaac S. Harris, PhD - The Harris Lab at the University of Rochester Medical Center

4:05 pm

Q&A Discussion

4:15 pm

Targeting Autophagy in Cancer: Trials and Tribulations
Ravi K. Amaravadi, MD - University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine

4:45 pm

Q&A Discussion

4:55 pm

Closing Remarks
Brooke Emerling, PhD - Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

5:00 pm

Final Adjournment