2022 AGENDA
3pm – 7pm
Registration check-in table open
5pm – 8pm
Trainee Networking event
Tuesday, October 18
7:30am – 5:30pm
Registration check-in table open
7:30am – 8:30am
Breakfast
8:30am – 8:35am
Day 1, Opening remarks – Shelley Barton
8:35am – 9:15am
Keynote: Population and tumor heterogeneity in cancer genome science
Speaker: John Carpten
* 10 minutes for Q&A
9:15am – 11:40am
Session 1: From models to mechanisms to humans
Topic chairs: Simon Leedham & Victor Velculescu
Speakers: Jos Jonkers, Ryan Schenck, Sabine Tejpar, Victor Velculescu
* 20 minute session break from 10:10am-10:30am
11:40am – 11:45am
Lightning talk 1 – Yeuk Pin Gladys Poon – The clonal evolution preceding leukemia development revealed using single-cell DNA sequencing
11:45am – 11:50am
Lightning talk 2 – Shiqin Liu – Shed Trop2 Extracellular Domain is a Potential Liquid Biomarker for High-risk Prostate Cancer and a Regulator of Prostate Cancer Progression
11:50am – 12:50pm
Lunch
1:00pm – 1:45pm
Panel: How should we evaluate Multi Cancer Early Detection Tests?
Moderator: Michelle Le Beau
Speakers: Allan Hackshaw, Minetta Liu, Anne Mackie, Josh Ofman
* 25 minutes for Q&A
1:45pm – 4:10pm
Session 2: Emerging technologies for early detection and precision diagnosis
Topic chairs: Rob West & Thuy Ngo
Speakers: Brian Cunningham, Thuy Ngo, Mirabela Rusu, Rob West
* 20 minute session break from 2:40pm-3pm
4:10pm – 4:15pm
Lightning talk 3 – Jie Wang – Acoustic Fabrication of Living Cardiomyocyte-based Hybrid Biorobots
4:15pm – 4:20pm
Lightning talk 4 – Travis Moore – Robust CNV detection using single-cell ATAC-seq
4:20pm – 4:55pm
Great Debate 1: There is no such thing as over-diagnosis. Every diagnosis will help us better understand the biology of the cancer, eventually advancing early cancer detection and management.
Speakers: Nora Pashayan & Eithne Costello
5pm – 6:30pm
Networking and Drinks Poster Reception
Wednesday, October 19
7:30am – 4:30pm
Registration check-in table open
8am – 9am
Breakfast
9am – 9:05am
Day 2, Opening remarks – Tanya Stoyanova
9:05am – 10:05am
Keynote Panel: A funding agency perspective on early detection
Speakers: Karen Knudsen, Phil Castle, Catherine Elliott
* 25 minutes for Q&A
10:05am – 12:30pm
Session 3: Microbiological risk factors for early detection
Topic chairs: Xin Lu & Zhenzhen Zhang
Speakers: Emma Allen-Vercoe, Curtis Huttenhower, Gabe Kwong and Zhenzhen Zhang
* 20 minute session break from 11am-11:20am
12:30pm – 12:35pm
Lightning talk 5 – Danielle Brasino – A New, Organ-on-Chip Platform to Study the Relationship Between Gut Microbiota and Distal Tumors
12:35pm – 12:40pm
Lightning talk 6 – Michael Fadel – Diagnostic performance of a non-invasive breath test for colorectal cancer: COlorectal BReath Analysis 1 (COBRA1) study
12:40pm – 1:40pm
Lunch
1:50pm – 2:35pm
Panel: What can we learn from trials that return unexpected results on mortality benefit from early detection biomarkers/tests?
Moderator: Peter Johnson
Speakers: Christine Berg, Usha Menon
* 25 minutes for Q&A
2:35pm – 3:10pm
Great Debate 2: Single-organ cancer screening is failing public health – Multi-cancer early detection tests are the only way forward
Speakers: Paul Limburg & Bob Steele
3:10pm – 4:40pm
Networking and Drinks Poster Reception
4:40pm – 5pm
Break
5pm – 5:30pm
Shuttles to The Redd
5:30pm – 5:50pm
Don Listwin Award Presentation at The Redd
5:50pm – 7:20pm
Conference Dinner at The Redd
7:20pm
Shuttles back to The Nines
Thursday, October 20
7:30am – 12pm
Registration check-in table open
8am – 9am
Breakfast
9am – 9:05am
Day 3, Opening remarks – George Hanna
9:05am – 9:10am
Lightning talk 7 – Joshua Bull – Mathematical Tools for Spatial Analysis of Multiplex Medical Images
9:10am – 9:15am
Lightning talk 8 – Elinor Nemlander – Predicting lung cancer in never smokers, former smokers and current smokers using machine learning – results from a computer-based detailed symptom questionnaire given to patients investigated at a specialist lung clinic
9:15am – 11:40am
Session 4: What is needed for an earlier cancer detection test to have clinical impact?
Topic chairs: Tom Beer & Rebecca Fitzgerald
Speakers: Hormuzd Katki, Larry Kessler, Chris Peters, Sharmila Anandasabapathy
* 20 minute session break from 10:10am-10:30am
11:40am – 11:50am
Conference closing remarks – George Hanna