Course director is Mark Goodman, MD
Presented by UPMC Hillman Cancer Center and University of Pittsburgh
PROGRAM GOAL: To increase both researchers’ and health care providers’ knowledge of the biology, translational science and clinical management of soft tissue, and bone sarcomas and emerging treatments
WHO SHOULD ATTEND: Physicians, researchers, advanced practice providers, nurses, and other health care providers who take care of patients with bone and soft tissue sarcomas
COURSE DIRECTORS:
Kelly Bailey, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor
UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Melissa Burgess, MD, Assistant Professor
UPMC Hillman Cancer Center
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Anette Duensing, MD, Assistant Professor
UPMC Hillman Cancer Center
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Rebecca Watters, PhD, Research Assistant Professor
UPMC Hillman Cancer Center
University of Pittsburgh
Kurt Weiss, MD, Associate Professor
UPMC Hillman Cancer Center
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
MORE INFORMATION / REGISTRATION:
For questions, please contact Melissa Burgess at burgessma@upmc.edu or 412-623-7277. Registration will soon be available at https://cce.upmc.com in the catalog tab.
Every Friday from 9:15-10 am
The Bridgeside Research Forum is a seminar given by postdocs and graduate students every Friday from 12-1 pm during the academic year. Most weeks consist of two 30-minute talks, but there will be an occasional hour-long special seminar from an invited guest too.
The goal of this forum is to provide an opportunity for trainees to gain valuable experience presenting their research to a broad scientific community. The topics are diverse each week, so there is sure to be something for everyone. All are welcome to attend and enjoy a free lunch while you are there!
There is a free shuttle to transport people directly from the Hillman Cancer Center to Bridgeside Point II and back. The shuttle will depart Hillman at 11:30 am and then depart Bridgside at 1:15 pm
Please feel free to attend the women faculty/trainee lunch on the first Friday of the month at the UPMC Hillman Cancer Center to informally chat and discuss issues pertaining to female scientists.
Please visit the Tumor Boards section under Healthcare Professionals for more information.
These meetings are for health care professionals and researchers and are not open to the public.
Work-in-Progress Conference & Seminar Series
“Single-cell RNA sequencing reveals markers of stem/progenitor spermatogonia in higher primates”
Sarah Munyoki
Graduate Student, Orwig Lab, University of Pittsburgh, Magee-Womens Research Institute
Objective: The presentation will focus on the use of single cell RNA sequencing data from adult human and monkey testis tissue to identify protein markers of spermatogonial stem cells (SSCs). I will discuss our work investigating whether these markers can be exploited for sorting, enhancing survival and expansion in culture of SSCs or other applications that improve the fundamental knowledge about SSCs in higher primates, and may enable applications in the male infertility clinic.
“Are Dietary/Reproductive factors associated with Ovarian and Endometrial Cancer Risk?”
Ming Lei
Visiting Scholar, Linkov Lab, University of Pittsburgh, Magee-Womens Research Institute
Objective: Singapore Chinese Health study is a population-based prospective cohort study. We would like to share our results of the secondary analysis of the data, mainly focused on ovarian and endometrial cancer.
Date: Wednesday, September 11, 2019
Time: 12:00 to 1:00 PM
Location: Magee-Womens Research Institute, Conference Center, 1st Floor
For program questions, please contact Dr. Mellissa Mann @ 412-641-7950. A light lunch will be provided.
CME and CEU credits can be earned by attending WIP and providing required information.
Course director is Mark Goodman, MD
Every Friday from 9:15-10 am
The Bridgeside Research Forum is a seminar given by postdocs and graduate students every Friday from 12-1 pm during the academic year. Most weeks consist of two 30-minute talks, but there will be an occasional hour-long special seminar from an invited guest too.
The goal of this forum is to provide an opportunity for trainees to gain valuable experience presenting their research to a broad scientific community. The topics are diverse each week, so there is sure to be something for everyone. All are welcome to attend and enjoy a free lunch while you are there!
There is a free shuttle to transport people directly from the Hillman Cancer Center to Bridgeside Point II and back. The shuttle will depart Hillman at 11:30 am and then depart Bridgside at 1:15 pm
Please visit the Tumor Boards section under Healthcare Professionals for more information.
These meetings are for health care professionals and researchers and are not open to the public.
There is no Genome Stability Program WIP meeting today, September 18.
Course director is Mark Goodman, MD
Every Friday from 9:15-10 am
The Bridgeside Research Forum is a seminar given by postdocs and graduate students every Friday from 12-1 pm during the academic year. Most weeks consist of two 30-minute talks, but there will be an occasional hour-long special seminar from an invited guest too.
The goal of this forum is to provide an opportunity for trainees to gain valuable experience presenting their research to a broad scientific community. The topics are diverse each week, so there is sure to be something for everyone. All are welcome to attend and enjoy a free lunch while you are there!
There is a free shuttle to transport people directly from the Hillman Cancer Center to Bridgeside Point II and back. The shuttle will depart Hillman at 11:30 am and then depart Bridgside at 1:15 pm
Please visit the Tumor Boards section under Healthcare Professionals for more information.
These meetings are for health care professionals and researchers and are not open to the public.
The centromere is a central genetic element responsible for accurate chromosome segregation during cell division. Functional centromeres are specified epigenetically through the stable acquisition of CENP-A, a histone H3 variant found exclusively in nucleosomes at all active centromeres. Using genome-wide approaches, we recently discovered that DNA replication serves as an error correction mechanism that restricts CENP-A to centromeres by removing it from the ectopic sites of deposition at the chromosome arms, while maintaining the positions of centromere-bound CENP-A with high precision throughout DNA replication. This error correction mechanism explains how centromere identity is epigenetically maintained and restricted to one position on the chromosome, thereby suppressing genome instability and ensuring long-term faithful chromosome inheritance.
Course director is Mark Goodman, MD
Every Friday from 9:15-10 am
The Bridgeside Research Forum is a seminar given by postdocs and graduate students every Friday from 12-1 pm during the academic year. Most weeks consist of two 30-minute talks, but there will be an occasional hour-long special seminar from an invited guest too.
The goal of this forum is to provide an opportunity for trainees to gain valuable experience presenting their research to a broad scientific community. The topics are diverse each week, so there is sure to be something for everyone. All are welcome to attend and enjoy a free lunch while you are there!
There is a free shuttle to transport people directly from the Hillman Cancer Center to Bridgeside Point II and back. The shuttle will depart Hillman at 11:30 am and then depart Bridgside at 1:15 pm
Please visit the Tumor Boards section under Healthcare Professionals for more information.
These meetings are for health care professionals and researchers and are not open to the public.
Course director is Mark Goodman, MD
The Provost’s Inaugural Lecture series invites University of Pittsburgh faculty members to give a lecture marking their recent appointments to endowed chairs. Dr. Aizenstein’s research focuses on cognitive and affective neuroscience of aging, late-life depression, and multimodal neuroimaging methods.
A reception with light refreshments will follow the talk.
Every Friday from 9:15-10 am
The Bridgeside Research Forum is a seminar given by postdocs and graduate students every Friday from 12-1 pm during the academic year. Most weeks consist of two 30-minute talks, but there will be an occasional hour-long special seminar from an invited guest too.
The goal of this forum is to provide an opportunity for trainees to gain valuable experience presenting their research to a broad scientific community. The topics are diverse each week, so there is sure to be something for everyone. All are welcome to attend and enjoy a free lunch while you are there!
There is a free shuttle to transport people directly from the Hillman Cancer Center to Bridgeside Point II and back. The shuttle will depart Hillman at 11:30 am and then depart Bridgside at 1:15 pm
Please feel free to attend the women faculty/trainee lunch on the first Friday of the month at the UPMC Hillman Cancer Center to informally chat and discuss issues pertaining to female scientists.
Please visit the Tumor Boards section under Healthcare Professionals for more information.
These meetings are for health care professionals and researchers and are not open to the public.
Course director is Mark Goodman, MD
Every Friday from 9:15-10 am
The Bridgeside Research Forum is a seminar given by postdocs and graduate students every Friday from 12-1 pm during the academic year. Most weeks consist of two 30-minute talks, but there will be an occasional hour-long special seminar from an invited guest too.
The goal of this forum is to provide an opportunity for trainees to gain valuable experience presenting their research to a broad scientific community. The topics are diverse each week, so there is sure to be something for everyone. All are welcome to attend and enjoy a free lunch while you are there!
There is a free shuttle to transport people directly from the Hillman Cancer Center to Bridgeside Point II and back. The shuttle will depart Hillman at 11:30 am and then depart Bridgside at 1:15 pm
Please visit the Tumor Boards section under Healthcare Professionals for more information.
These meetings are for health care professionals and researchers and are not open to the public.
THURSDAY, 17 OCTOBER
9:00 a.m. SPOTLIGHT SESSION 1: Inflammation, Immunology, and Disease
Moderator: Mark Shlomchik, MD
PhD Mark Shlomchik, MD, PhD Greg Delgoffe, PhD, Mandy McGeachy, PhD, Fadi Lakkis, MD
FRIDAY, 18 OCTOBER
2:00 p.m. SPOTLIGHT SESSION 11: Oxidative Stress
Moderator: Bruce Freeman, PhD
Patricia Opresko, PhD, Toren Finkel, MD, PhD, Patrick Pagano, PhD, Sruti Shiva, PhD
2:00 p.m. SPOTLIGHT SESSION 12: Tumorigenesis—Speeding It Up and Putting on the Brakes
Moderator: Steffi Oesterreich, PhD
Alan Wells, MD, DMSc, Ferruccio Galbiati, PhD, Yi-Nan Gong, PhD, Yael Nechemia-Arbely, PhD
Course director is Mark Goodman, MD
Rusland Medzhitov, PhD, Sterling Professor of Immunobiology at Yale University and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator, will present the 2019 Dickson Prize in Medicine Lecture, “Host Defense Strategies,” as part of Science 2019, the University of Pittsburgh’s annual celebration of science and technology. The Dickson Prize in Medicine is the highest honor awarded by Pitt’s School of Medicine.
Medzhitov is credited with many fundamental discoveries concerning the importance of Toll-like receptors in controlling adaptive immunity, infections, chronic inflammation, and tumor growth. Many drug companies are actively targeting these receptors in hopes of treating cancer, sepsis, and inflammatory disease.
Every Friday from 9:15-10 am
The Bridgeside Research Forum is a seminar given by postdocs and graduate students every Friday from 12-1 pm during the academic year. Most weeks consist of two 30-minute talks, but there will be an occasional hour-long special seminar from an invited guest too.
The goal of this forum is to provide an opportunity for trainees to gain valuable experience presenting their research to a broad scientific community. The topics are diverse each week, so there is sure to be something for everyone. All are welcome to attend and enjoy a free lunch while you are there!
There is a free shuttle to transport people directly from the Hillman Cancer Center to Bridgeside Point II and back. The shuttle will depart Hillman at 11:30 am and then depart Bridgside at 1:15 pm
Please visit the Tumor Boards section under Healthcare Professionals for more information.
These meetings are for health care professionals and researchers and are not open to the public.
Course director is Mark Goodman, MD
Every Friday from 9:15-10 am
The Bridgeside Research Forum is a seminar given by postdocs and graduate students every Friday from 12-1 pm during the academic year. Most weeks consist of two 30-minute talks, but there will be an occasional hour-long special seminar from an invited guest too.
The goal of this forum is to provide an opportunity for trainees to gain valuable experience presenting their research to a broad scientific community. The topics are diverse each week, so there is sure to be something for everyone. All are welcome to attend and enjoy a free lunch while you are there!
There is a free shuttle to transport people directly from the Hillman Cancer Center to Bridgeside Point II and back. The shuttle will depart Hillman at 11:30 am and then depart Bridgside at 1:15 pm
Please visit the Tumor Boards section under Healthcare Professionals for more information.
These meetings are for health care professionals and researchers and are not open to the public.
Event Speaker: Rui Sun, PhD, Postdoctoral Associate, Chang Moore Lab, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh
Lecture Title: “Mitosis-related 4E-BP1 phosphorylation and its interaction with eIF4E—Peer into the complexity of protein multisite phosphorylation”
This meeting has been canceled.
Speaker: Ulrich Keilholz, MD
Speaker Title: Professor of Medical Oncology and Director, Charité Comprehensive Cancer Center, Berlin, Germany
Lecture Title: “The Charité Precision Oncology Program”
RSVP to Lola Thompson at thompsonla3@upmc.edu.
Event Speaker: Avi Maganty, MD, Department of Urology, UPMC
Lecture Title: “Undertreatment of Prostate Cancer in Rural Residents”
It is well established that species differences exist in susceptibility to infectious diseases. Additionally, significant species-specific differences exist in the immune response to infectious agents and neoplasia. To overcome the species-specific difference between rodents and humans, we have reconstituted immunodeficient rodents with requisite human organ systems for investigating sexually transmitted diseases (i.e. HIV) and immuno-oncology (i.e. ovarian cancer).
Course director is Mark Goodman, MD
Every Friday from 9:15-10 am
The Bridgeside Research Forum is a seminar given by postdocs and graduate students every Friday from 12-1 pm during the academic year. Most weeks consist of two 30-minute talks, but there will be an occasional hour-long special seminar from an invited guest too.
The goal of this forum is to provide an opportunity for trainees to gain valuable experience presenting their research to a broad scientific community. The topics are diverse each week, so there is sure to be something for everyone. All are welcome to attend and enjoy a free lunch while you are there!
There is a free shuttle to transport people directly from the Hillman Cancer Center to Bridgeside Point II and back. The shuttle will depart Hillman at 11:30 am and then depart Bridgside at 1:15 pm
Please feel free to attend the women faculty/trainee lunch on the first Friday of the month at the UPMC Hillman Cancer Center to informally chat and discuss issues pertaining to female scientists.
Please visit the Tumor Boards section under Healthcare Professionals for more information.
These meetings are for health care professionals and researchers and are not open to the public.
