New York Cancer Genomics Research Network Meeting
To advance collaborative efforts on cancer genomics, the New York Genome Center (NYGC) hosts meetings on the first Tuesday of every month to bring together leading cancer researchers, clinicians and postdocs from the NYGC’s Institutional Founding Members and other key academic institutions.
Discussion and Q&A will take place after each speaker presents.
These meetings are held on the first Tuesday of each month and are intended for principal investigators in the New York region and their trainees.
Any questions on this event, contact events@nygenome.org.
Speakers
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Benjamin Garcia, PhD, FRSC
Presidential Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics
Director of Quantitative Proteomics
Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics
Penn Epigenetics Institute
Smilow Center for Translational ResearchPerelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
To learn more about Dr. Garcia’s research, see his lab page."Quantitative Proteomics for Understanding Epigenetic Mechanisms”
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Serena Nik-Zainal, MD, PhD
CRUK Advanced Clinician Scientist
Academic Department of Medical Genetics & MRC Cancer Unit
Group Leader of the Physiology of Mutagenesis Group
The Clinical School
University of CambridgeTo learn more about Dr. Zik-Zainal’s research, see mutationalsignatures.com
"Harnessing the Value of Whole Genome Sequencing in Human Cancer"
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Markus Schober, PhD
Assistant Professor, Ronald O. Perelman
Department of Dermatology
Assistant Professor, Department of Cell Biology
NYU Grossman School of Medicine"Transcriptional Control of Self-Renewal and Differentiation in Squamous Cell Carcinoma"
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Harold Varmus, MD
Senior Associate Core Member
New York Genome Center
Lewis Thomas University
Professor of Medicine
Weill Cornell Medicine