Tumor Organoid Modeling Agenda

Agenda


Organizers

De-Chen Lin, PhD
Associate Professor, Associate Director
USC Head and Neck Center

Eunyoung Choi, PhD
Associate Professor
Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Schedule subject to change. Each speaker will present their talk live, and the entire conference will be recorded.

Time (Eastern - US)Presentation
10:00–10:10Welcome and Conference Overview
10:10–10:40

Organoid Platforms for Functional Precision Oncology
Alice Soragni, PhD, Associate Professor, UCLA

10:40–11:10

Genetically Defined Tumor Organoids for Squamous Cancer Biology
De-Chen Lin, PhD, Assistant Professor, USC

11:10—11:40

Gastric Cancer Organoids and Epithelial Lineage Plasticity
Eunyoung Choi, PhD, Associate Professor, Vanderbilt University Medical Center

11:40–12:10

Modeling Tumor Evolution and Tumor-Immune Interactions in GI Cancer Using Organoid-Based 
Kyung-Pil Ko, PhD, Assistant Professor, Texas A&M

12:10–12:40

Engineering Organoid Microenvironments to Decode ECM-Driven Programs in Cancer
Ricardo Cruz-Acuna, PhD, Assistant Professor, Columbia University

12:40–13:10

High Throughput Drug Screening of a SCC PDO Biobank Identifies Replication Stress as a Cancer-Specific Vulnerability
Samuel Flashner, PhD, Postdoctoral Researcher, Columbia University

13:10–13:30
Panel Discussion and Open Q & A