2025-2026 Cancer Pathobiology WHIP (Work Hopefully in Progress)

                               3rd Wednesday of the month | 3:30 PM - 5 PM | CTRB 4040 | !!! REFRESHMENTS !!!

September 17, 2025

Find Funding Wednesday: Special Event for Postdocs

(9:00 AM - 12:00 PM in CTRB 3040)

October 15, 2025

Guest Speaker: Avi Srivastava (Wistar) "Venturing Beyond Genomics: Exploring Single-Cells Through Multimodal Analyses"

November 19, 2025

Weitzman Lab: Tanner Tessier “The Proximity Proteomics Grand PrIX: Using Proximity Proteomics to Establish PTM Enzyme-Substrate Relationships”

De Raedt Lab: Thomas de Raedt “Peptide Centric CARs for NF1 associated malignancies”

December 17, 2025

Bosse Lab: Hehai Pan “Developing a GPC2 mRNA-LNP CAR T cell vaccine”

Choi Lab: Josue Medor "Investigating the role of Cdc-like kinases in the genotoxic stress response"

 

January 14, 2026

Nader Lab: Akash Samuel (PhD student) "Investigating the drivers of solid stress and their role in activating nuclear mechano-sensing pathways in cancer cells"

Weitzman Lab: Jasmine Larrick (PhD student) "Structural Investigation of Adenovirus Packaging: From Nuclear Compartments to Infectious Particles”

February 18, 2026

Wolpaw Lab: Adam Wolpaw (PI) "Lineage state models reveal opposing roles of host and tumor Sting in neuroblastoma"

Choi Lab: Amanda Weiss (PhD student) "Transcriptomic characterization of the ReNcell VM neural differentiation model"

March 18, 2026

Thomas-Tikhonenko Lab: Josie King (PhD student) "The METTL3-PI3K Axis in B-cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia"

Lin Lab: Lan Lin (PI) "ATLAS-TIL: A Universal 3D Microfluidic Screen of Cytotoxic Tumor Infiltrating T Cells"

April 14, 2026

Thomas-Tikhonenko Lab: Grace Watterson (PhD Student) "Investigating Isoform Switching of Cell Adhesion Molecules in Pediatric High Grade Glioma"

Choi Lab: Benjamin Wales-McGrath (PhD Student) "Modeling and Measuring Alternative Splicing Regulation by the RNA Binding Protein Network" 

 

May 21, 2026

Weitzman Lab: Jack Dowling/Title TBA

Wong Lab: Speaker/Title TBA