2009 Georgia Cancer Research Symposium
Oral Presentations, Friday, November 6, 2009, 8:00 am -11:30 am
Three tracks with breakout sessions will be held concurrently in 2nd Floor Classrooms. Each presenter will speak for approximately 10 minutes followed by 5 minutes for questions. Times have been assigned so that you may choose sessions from various tracks; however, please understand that they may run a few minutes early or late, depending on the presentation and the speaker. For details on the abstract, please click on the title.
Click on the titles with a PDF symbol below to view those presentations which researchers agreed to make available online.
BASIC SCIENCE
8 am - 8:15 am
 Indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase controls conversion of Foxp3+ Tregs to TH17-like cells in tumor-draining lymph nodes
Madhav D. Sharma and David H. Munn
8:15 am - 8:30 am
What Can Brown Do For You? The Many Roles of the Ubiquitin-Proteasome System (UPS) and Monoubiquitination in Regulating Mammalian Transcription Kavita Purnanda Bhat and Susanna Fletcher Greer
8:30 am - 8:45 am
Genome-wide DNA Methylation Maps in Follicular Lymphoma Cells
Huidong Shi, Jeong-Hyeon Choi, Juyuan Guo, Yajun Li, Robin S. Kramer, Tibor Rauch, Simone Macmil, Graham Wiley, Lynda B. Bennett, Jennifer L. Schnabel, Kristen H. Taylor, Kim Sun, Dong Xu, Arun Sreekumar, Gerd P. Pfeifer, Bruce Roe, Charles W. Caldwell and Kapil N. Bhalla
8:45 am - 9:00 am
To metastasize or not to metastasize – roles for epigenetics in tumor metastatasis
Agnieszka D.Truax and Susanna F.Greer
9:00 am - 9:15 am
EPLIN is a putative invasion suppressor in prostate cancer
Shumin Zhang, Haiyen E. Zhau, Xu Wang, Adeboye O. Osunkoya, Sajni Josson, Georgia (Zhuo) Chen, Shareen Iqbal, Ruoxiang Wang, Fray F. Marshall, Dong M. Shin, Leland W. K. Chung, Daqing Wu
9:30 am – 9:45 am
Axon guidance molecule Slit3 is a novel angiogenic factor
Bing Zhang, Ursula M. Dietrich, Jian-Guo Geng, Roy Bicknell, Jeffrey D. Esko and Lianchun Wang
9:45 am - 10:00 am
Leptin regulation of VEGF in breast cancer cells.
Yanbo Xu, Amber Watters, Weiqiang Zhou, Corey Gillespie, Yuanyuan Zhang, Shanchun Guo and Samuel J. Leibovich, Ruben R. Gonzalez-Perez
10:00 am - 10:15 am
Enigma of BRCAness and ER-negative /positive Breast Cancers
*J Xu, *T Watkins, K Aysola, Q Yunlong, A Reddy, E S P Reddy, and V N Rao
10:15 am - 10:30 am
Probing the Microrheology of Mesenchymal Stem Cell-Based Therapeutics
Daniel McGrail, Michelle Dawson
10:30 am - 10:45 am
Heparan sulfate is required for cell fate commitment of embryonic stem cells
Daniel C. Kraushaar, Yu Yamaguch, & Lianchun Wang
10:45 am - 11:00 am
Gene expression profiling analyses indicate that human ovarian surface epithelia are multipotent and capable of serving as the somatic stem cell origin of epithelial ovarian cancer.
Nathan J Bowen, L DeEtte Walker, Lilya V Matyunina, Sanjay Logani, Lijuan Wang, Kimberly A Totten , Benedict B Benigno and John F McDonald
11:00 am - 11:15 am
Study of Machine-based Nucleus Discrimination with Nuclear Feature Quantification and Analysis Techniques for large-scale Microscopy Imaging of Diffuse Glioma
Jun Kong, Ashish Sharma, Daniel J. Brat, Joel H. Saltz
11:15 am - 11:30 am
Kinetic Model Characterization of Protease Activity in Tumor Microenvironments
Rebecca Deeds, W. Aileen Li, and Manu O. Platt
11:30 am - 11:45 am
RNA-driven DNA modifications from bacteria to human cells
Pavan Nandi, Ying Shen, Bernard Weiss and Francesca Storici
CLINICAL/TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH
8 am - 8:15 am
Needs Assessment to Facilitate Pediatric Cancer Survivorship Care through SurvivorLink
Ann Mertens, Paula Edwards, Brooke Cherven, Ruchika Bansal, Lillian Meacham
8:15 am - 8:30 am
Validation of the Pedigree Assessment Tool (PAT) in Families with BRCA1 and BRCA2 Mutations
Gabram-Mendola, Sheryl, Teller, Paige; Zwaagstra, Alice; Stanislaw, Christine; Iyengar, Radha.; Green, Victoria L.; Hoskins, Kent F.
8:30 am - 8:45 am
Role of KCNMA1 and its splice variant in breast cancer metastasis and invasion
D Khaitan, R Rudolph, W Check, US Sankpal, NS Ningaraj
8:45 am - 9 am
Vimentin –a novel antimetastatic target for Breast cancer metastasis
Jose T. Thaiparambil, Laura Bender, Erik Kline, Tote Ganesh, James P. Snyder, Dennis Liotta, Donald Harvey, and Adam I. Marcus
9 am - 9:15 am
The use of magnetic nanoparticles for the targeted removal of ovarian cancer cells
Kenneth Scarberry* and John McDonald
9:15 am - 9:30 am
Rapid Mass Spectrometric Metabolic Profiling of Blood Sera Detects Ovarian Cancer with High Accuracy
Manshui Zhou, Wei Guan, L. DeEtte Walker, Roman Mezencev, Benedict B. Benigno, Alexander Gray, Facundo M. Fernández , John F. McDonald
9:30 am - 9:45 am
Understanding the biology of therapeutic approaches in multiple myeloma.
Lawrence H. Boise, Alejo A. Morales, Metin Kurtoglu, Shannon M. Matulis, and Delia M. Gutman
9:45 am - 10 am
Multi-scale Integrative Investigation of Brain Tumor
Joel Saltz, Carlos Moreno, Tahsin Kurc, Ashish Sharma, Jun Kong, Sharath Cholleti, Tony Pan, Erwin van Meir, Daniel Brat, Tom Mikkelsen, Daniel Rubin, Adam Flanders
10 am - 10:15 am
Grid Computing for Integrative and Translational Cancer Research
Tahsin Kurc, Ashish Sharma, Tony Pan, Joel Saltz, Shannon Hastings, Stephen Langella, Scott Oster, David Ervin, Justin Permar
10:15 am - 10:30 am
Integrative and Translational Cancer Research Informatics Requirements
Tahsin Kurc, Ashish Sharma, Tony Pan, Joel Saltz, Shannon Hastings, Stephen Langella, Scott Oster, David Ervin, Justin Permar
10:30 am - 10:45 am
Linking Cancer Bioinformatics with Nanotechnology for Personalized Oncology
May Wang
10:45 am - 11 am
Optimally splitting cases for training and testing high dimensional classifiers
Kevin K. Dobbin, Richard M. Simon
11 am - 11:15 am
Multimodality Molecular Imaging for Cancer Research
Baowei Fei
11:15 am – 11:30 am
hESCs Cell Surface Markers on Carcinomas
Andrew K. Godwin, Jeffrey C. Gildersleeve, Crystal Jackson, Mohamed G. Shoreibah*
EPIDEMIOLOGY/PUBLIC HEALTH RESEARCH
8 am - 8:15 am
Differences in smoking patterns, attitudes, and motives among two-year college
and four-year university students
Carla J. Berg, Lawrence C. An, Janet L. Thomas, Katherine A. Lust, Julia R. Sanem, Deanne W. Swan, & Jasjit S. Ahluwalia
8:15 am - 8:30 am
Lung Cancer Burden in Georgia by Age, Race, and Rural/Non-Rural Residence: Preliminary Analyses
Claire Robb, Colin K. Smith, Emily K. Smith, Sara E. Wagner, & John E. Vena
8:30 am - 8:45 am
Physician Recommended Colorectal Cancer Screening more likely for Whites than Blacks irrespective of gender, education, insurance and income levels based on the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) data.
Debbie Coleman-Wallace, Peter Baltrus, Tracey Wallace, Lee Caplan, Daniel Blumenthal, George Rust
8:45 am - 9 am
Lake Ontario Sport-Caught Fish Consumption and Breast Cancer Risk in the New York State Angler Cohort Study (NYSACS)
Jacqueline M. Mix, John E. Vena*, Theodore M. Brasky, Matthew R. Bonner
9 am - 9:15 am
Evaluation of a new initiative in the Avon Foundation Community Education and Outreach Community Patient Navigation Program
Tamara A. Mason, Winifred Wilkins Thompson, Sheryl G.A. Gabram-Mendola, Dana Rogers, Kimberly R. Jacob Arriola
9:15 am - 9:30 am
Transportation barriers to mammography screening clinics in the Atlanta, Georgia metropolitan area
S Graham, R Young, S Foster, B Lewis, A Dent, B Flanagan, E Gregory, E Burger, LA Peipins
9:30 am - 9:45 am
Groundwater Uranium and Cancer Incidence in the Southeast
Sara E. Wagner, James B. Burch, Matteo Bottai, Robin Puett, Dwayne Porter, Susan Bolick-Aldrich, Tom Temples, Rebecca C. Wilkerson, John Vena, James R. Hebert
9:45 am - 10 am
Reproductive Health in Oncologic Care
Ashlesha Patel, Mini Sreedevi, Rachana P. Sutaria, Monique Brown Schoenhage, Ashok R. Patel, Erica Radeke, Jennifer Fournier, Deborah Kemp, Nancy Johnson, Pat Willmann, and H.A. Zaren
10 am - 10:15 am
Cancer Incidence and Mortality in Georgia, 2002-2006
Bayakly, Rana
10:15 am - 10:30 am
Breast Cancer Incidence and Mortality in Georgia, 2002-2006
Rayakly, Rana; Berzen, Alissa
10:30 am - 10:45 am
Augmenting Georgia Cancer Registry Data To Support Cancer Quality-of-Care Assessment and Comparative Effectiveness Research
Joseph Lipscomb, Kathleen Adams, Kevin Ward, Amy Chen, Christopher Flowers, Theresa Gillespie, David Howard
10:45 am - 11 am
Comparison of Gleason Scores Reported at Diagnosis to Those Assigned by Expert Review
Michael Goodman, Kevin Ward
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