2020 Cancer Biology Seminar Series
2019 Seminar Series
January 9, 2020
"Harnessing Patient-Derived Glioblastoma Neurospheres Reveals a Novel and Targetable
Pro-Invasive Tumor Microtube Nodal Network"
Kathryn Eisenmann, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Cancer Biology, University of Toledo College of
Medicine & Life Sciences
4:00 pm, BHS 436
January 16, 2020
"Role of Bone Microenvironment in Prostate Cancer Metastasis and Drug Resistance"
Xiaohong Li, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Program of Skeletal Disease and Cancer Therapeutics Center for
Cancer and Cell Biology, Van Andel Institute, Grand Rapids, MI
4:00 pm, BHS 436
January 23, 2020
"Targeting DNA Damage Checkpoint for Cancer Therapy"
Junjie Chen, Ph.D., Professor and Chairman, Department of Experimental Radiation Oncology, The University
of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
4:00 pm, BHS 436
January 30, 2020
"Glioblastoma Tumor Microtubes: Clinical Implications and Future Directions"
Kathryn Becker, B.S., MD/PhD Candidate, Biomedical Sciences Program - Cell and Cancer Biology Track (laboratory
of Dr. Kathryn Eisenmann, Dept. Cancer Biology), University of Toledo College of Medicine
& Life Sciences
4:00 pm, BHS 436
February 13, 2020
"Regulation of Chromosome Segregation from Cell Cortex and Mitochondria"
Song-Tao Liu, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Toledo College of Arts
& Sciences,
4:00 pm, BHS 436
February 17, 2020
"Targeting Metabolism to Overcome Enzalutamide Resistance in Prostate Cancer"
Sayani Bhattacharjee, B.Tech., PhD Candidate, Biomedical Sciences Program - Cell and Cancer Biology Track (laboratory
of Dr. Nagalakshmi Nadiminty, Dept. of Urology), University of Toledo College of Medicine
& Life Sciences, Toledo, OH
4:00 pm, BHS 436
February 27, 2020
"Novel Technologies Against Multidrug-Resistant Cancers"
Amit Tiwari, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, University
of Toledo College of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences
4:00 pm, HBS 436
March 5, 2020
"Interplay Between Gut Microbiota and Dietary Fiber in Liver Cancer: The Dark Side
of Fermentation"
Matam Vijay Kumar, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Physiology & Pharmacology, University of Toledo
College of Medicine & Life Sciences, Toledo, OH
4:00 pm, BHS 436
April 23, 2020
"To Drug the Undruggable: An Attempt to Target Survivin in Pancreatic Cancer"
Jackson Huang, B.S., PhD Candidate, Biomedical Sciences - Cell and Cancer Biology Track (laboratory of
Dr. JT Zhang), University of Toledo College of Medicine & Life Sciences, Toledo, OH
4:00 pm, Webex Webinar
April 30, 2020
"Transcription Regulation and the Survin in Anti-Apoptotic Protein as they Relate
to Anti-Cancer Therapeutics"
Justin Creeden, B.S., MD/PhD Candidate, Biomedical Sciences - Cell and Cancer Biology Track (laboratory
of Dr. Robert McCullumSmith, Dept. of Neurosciences), University of Toledo College
of Medicine & Life Sciences, Toledo, OH
4:00 pm, Webex Webinar
May 7, 2020
"Functional Analysis of a Metastasis Master Regulator in Breast Cancer"
Kam C. Yeung, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Cancer Biology, University of Toledo College of
Medicine & Life Sciences, Toledo, OH
4:00 pm, Webex Webinar
May 14, 2020
"Normalizing Arginine Metabolism in Tumor-Associated Macrophages: A Novel Immunotherapeutic
Strategy for Breast Cancer"
Veani Roshale Fernando, B.Sc., PhD Candidate, Biomedical Sciences - Cell and Cancer Biology Track (laboratory of
Dr. Saori Furuta, Dept. Cancer Biology), University of Toledo College of Medicine
& Life Sciences, Toledo, OH
4:00 pm, Webex webinar
May 28, 2020
"Normalizing Arginine Metabolism for Breast Cancer Treatment"
Saori Furuta, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Cancer Biology, University of Toledo College of
Medicine & Life Sciences, Toledo, OH
4:00 pm, Webex webinar
Meeting #471 456 958
Password eFVmW32P3iJ
June 4, 2020
"Cancer Cell Reprogramming"
Qin Yang, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Cancer Biology, Univ of Toledo College of Medicine & Life
Sciences, Toledo, OH
4:00 pm, Webex webinar
Meeting #471 706 573
Password CJxQf3PWB88
June 11, 2020
"Role of CXCR4-LASP1-eIF4A1 Axis in Breast Cancer"
Dayanidhi Raman, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Cancer Biology, The University of Toledo College
of Medicine & Life Sciences, Toledo, OH
4:00 pm, Webex Webinar
Meeting #471 270 663
Password MQpUm46n7jc
June 25, 2020
"Understanding Adipogenin: A Novel Adipocyte Micropeptide"
Cynthia Smas, D.Sc., Associate Professor, Department of Cancer Biology, University of Toledo College of
Medicine & Life Sciences, Toledo, OH
4:00 pm, Webex Webinar
Meeting #160 240 2556
Password: M2up5iMtSa9
July 30, 2020
"Identify Intervention Targets for PDAC and Serrated CRC"
Jing Hu, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Medicine, Div. of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition,
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA
4:00 pm, Webex Webinar
Meeting #160 465 8694
Password: CZjSiNmH647
August 20, 2020
"Targeting Cancer Stem Cell Markers to Treat Pancreatic and Other GI Cancers"
Sripathi M. Sureban, M.Pharm, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Research and VA Research Investigator, Dept. of medicine,
Division of Digestive Diseases and Nutrition, Univ. of OKLAHOMA Health Sciences Center
4:00 pm, Webex Webinar
Meeting #160 658 3563
Password: RKk3KhAF663
August 27, 2020
"Leverage Open Genomic Data and AI to Discover New Cancer Therapeutics"
Bin Chen, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Pharmacology and Toxicology, College
of Human Medicine, Michigan State University, Lansing, MI
4:00 pm, Webex Webinar
Meeting #160 086 8503
Password: fRdWvd4Vq24
September 10, 2020
"Epigenetic Regulators in Pancreas Homeostasis and Tumor Suppression"
Amanda R. Wasylishen, Ph.D., Instructor, Department of Genetics, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center,
Houston, TX
4:00 pm, Webex Webinar
September 17, 2020
"Translation Control of Cancer Downstream of the PI3K/Akt/mTOR and the Erk/Mnk Pathways
via eIF4E"
Nahum Sonenberg, Ph.D., Professor, Gilman Cheney Chair in Biochemistry, Department of Biochemistry, Rosalind
and Morris Goodman Cancer Centre, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
4:00 pm, Webex Webinar
September 24, 2020
"New Insights Into GH and STAT5 Dependent Regulation of Adipose Tissue Function and
Metabolic Health"
Jacqueline M. Stephens, Ph.D., Pennington Biomedical and Louisiana State University, Adipocyte Biology Lab (PBRC)
and Department of Biological Sciences (LSU), Baton Rouge, LA
4:00 pm, Webex Webinar
October 1, 2020
"The Pleiotrophic Role of Heat Shock Factor 1 in Mediating Metabolism and Cell Growth
During Tumorigenesis"
Kuo-Hui Su, PhD., Research Fellow, Mouse Cancer Genetics Program, National Cancer Institute, Frederick,
MD
4:00 pm, Webex Webinar
October 29, 2020
"Wnt Signaling in Development and Disease"
Bart O. Williams, Ph.D., Director, Center for Cancer and Cell Biology, Professor, Skeletal Disease and Cancer
Therapeutics, Van Andel Research Institute, Grand Rapids, MI
4:00 pm, Webex Webinar
November 5, 2020
"Translational Biomedical Informatics in Cancer Research: Resistance, Metastasis,
and Disease Progression"
Lang Li, Ph.D., Professor and Chair, Department of Biomedical Informatics, The Ohio State University
College of Medicine, Columbus, OH
4:00 pm, Webex Webinar
December 3, 2020
"Switching on the Transcriptional Circuitry in Melanocytes and Melanoma"
Ivana de la Serna, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Cancer Biology, The University of Toledo College of Medicine
and Health Sciences, Toledo, OH
4:00 pm, Webex Webinar
December 10, 2020
"Folding the Genome by Cohesion"
Hongtao Yu, Ph.D., Professor and Chair of Cell Biology, Founding Dean, School of Life
Sciences, Westlake University, Hangzhou, China
9:45 am, Webex Webinar
December 27, 2020
"Loss of S-Nitrosylation of TGFB Dysregulates the Activation of Mammary Fibroblasts"
Joshua Letson, B.S., Ph.D. Candidate, Biomedical Sciences Cancer Biology track (laboratory of Dr. Saori
Furuta)
4:00 pm, Webex Webinar