The Second Annual New York Graduate Student Symposium on Cancer and Cell Biology was hosted by Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Weill Cornell Medical College, and Rockefeller University, last Thursday, March 24th. The three host institutions welcomed students from the New York University School of Medicine, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Columbia University, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Rutgers, and the CUNY Graduate Center. This one-day long symposium provided a unique opportunity for New York and New Jersey based graduate students to make new colleagues and share new data on a wide range of topics, including cancer genetics, tumor microenvironment, epigenetic regulation, cancer metastasis, immune response to infection, cell signaling and stem cell biology to name a few.
The symposium was sponsored by the Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences, The Gerstner Sloan Kettering Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, The Rockefeller University, The Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and the American Society for Cell Biology. Pictures of the event were taken by Yun-Huan Wang. This unique and recurring event is a favorite amongst students and has fostered interactions that extend beyond the symposium and into the lab. We thank our generous sponsors for their vision and support of this fantastic event.The symposium consisted of oral and poster presentations in order to provide a platform for students to interact and learn about new advances in their fields of study.
Breakfast, lunch, and a wine and cheese reception held at The Rockefeller University Faculty Club, provided an opportunity to network among local colleagues. At the day’s end, students voted by anonymous ballot for the top oral and poster presentations. Anja Hohmann, of Cold Spring Harbor and Chris Vakoc’s lab, gave a talk entitled, “A bromodomain-swap allele demonstrates that on-target chemical inhibition of BRD9 limits the proliferation of acute myeloid leukemia cells,” which was voted best overall.
Marta Kovatcheva, of the Koff Lab at MSKCC, and Ozgur Oksuz, of the Reinberg Lab at NYU, tied for second best talks overall. Matias Jaureguiberry-Bravo, from the Berman lab at Albert Einsten, gave a poster entitled, “Effects of Buprenorphine on CCL2 mediated CD14+CD16+ Monocyte Migration in the context of neuroAIDS,” which was voted best overall, followed by poster presentations from Yun-Huan Huang and Anna Sophia McKenney, both of the Weill Cornell / Rockefeller / Sloan Kettering Tri-Institutional MD-PhD Program.
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