“Genome Form and Function in Breast and Ovarian Cancer”
Joe W. Gray, Ph.D.
Director, Life Sciences Division
Associate Laboratory Director for Life and Environmental Sciences
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Berkeley, California

10:30 a.m.

Discussion

“Copy Number Variation in Cancer and Other Human Disease”
Michael H. Wigler, Ph.D.
Professor
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Cold Spring Harbor, New York

“MicroRNA Genes in Leukemogenesis”
Carlo M. Croce, M.D.
Director, Genetics Institute
Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center
Columbus, Ohio

Carol L. Prives, Ph.D.
DA Costa Professor
Department of Biological Sciences
Columbia University
New York, New York

“Systematic Searches for Somatic Mutations in Human Cancer Genomes”
Michael R. Stratton, MB BS, Ph.D., MRCPath, FMedSci               
Head of the Cancer Genome Project
The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute
Wellcome Trust Genome Campua
Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom

“Genomic Studies of Human Lung Carcinoma”
Matthew L. Meyerson, M.D., Ph. D.
Associate Professor of Pathology
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Harvard University Medical School
Boston, Massachusetts

“Mutational Analysis of Signaling Pathways in Human Cancer”
Victor E. Velculescu, M.D., Ph. D.
Assistant Professor of Oncology
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center
Baltimore, Maryland                        

Helen Piwnica-Worms, Ph.D.
Professor of Cell Biology and Physiology
Washington University School of Medicine
St. Louis, Missouri

“Oncogene Dependence”
Harold Varmus, M.D.
President and Chief Executive Officer
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
New York, New York

“Comparative Oncogenomics of Mouse and Human Tumors”
Lynda Chin, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Harvard University Medical School
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Boston, Massachusetts                        

Elizabeth H. Blackburn, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics
University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, California

“Recent Adventures with Retrotransposons”
Jef D. Boeke, Ph.D., D. Sc.
Professor and Director
High Throughput Biology Center
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Baltimore, Maryland

“Telomerase and the Consequences of Telomere Dysfunction”
Carol W. Greider, Ph.D.
Professor and Director
Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Baltimore, Maryland                        

“Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms in the p53 Pathway”
Arnold J. Levine, Ph.D.
Professor, School of Natural Sciences
Institute for Advanced Study
Princeton University
Princeton, New Jersey

Robert A. Weinberg, Ph. D.
Professor of Biology
Member, Whitehead Institute
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, Massachusetts

“Mouse Models for Cancer”
Anton Berns, Ph. D.
Director of Research
Chairman of the Board of Directors
Netherlands Cancer Institute
Amsterdam, Netherlands                        

“Mouse Models of Cancer as a Complex Genetic Trait”
Allan Balmain, Ph.D., F.R.S.e.
Professor
Cancer Research Institute
University of California
San Francisco, California                        

2006 General Motors Cancer Research Award Winner

Napoleone Ferrara, M.D.

Staff Scientist

Department of Molecular Oncology

Genentech, Inc.
 
 

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