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 Research

  Perelman 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 Cambridge

  To 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