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Stanford University
Lauren E. Cote, PhD
Constructing one continuous digestive tract, cell by cell
with Jessica L. Feldman, PhD
Christina L. Hueschen, PhD
"Molecular basis and regulation of apicomplexan parasite motility"
with Alex Dunn, PhD
Victoria Hung, PhD
"Defining the post-translational landscape of ribosomes in control of gene regulation and cell fate"
with Maria Barna, PhD
John C. Janetzko, PhD
"A biophysical approach to studying GRK-GPCR complexes"
with Brian K. Kobilka, MD
Seungsoo Kim, PhD
Transcription factor cooperation shaping TWIST1 multifunctionality across craniofacial development and cancer metastasis
with Joanna Wysocka, PhD
Conor J. McClune, PhD
Resolving plant biosynthesis of therapeutic compounds by systematic perturbation, measurement, and metabolic phenotyping at single-cell scale
with Elizabeth S. Sattely, PhD, and Polly M. Fordyce, PhD
Minhee Park, PhD
Structural basis of epigenetic memory at the single cell level
with Alistair Boettiger, PhD, and Howard Y. Chang, MD, PhD
Fangfei Qu, PhD
"Decoding the molecular and cellular mechanisms underlying the growth of brain metastases"
with Julien Sage, PhD
Kavita Y. Sarin, MD, PhD
"Genetic contributions and novel therapies for individuals with frequent basal cell cancer"
with Jean Y. Tang, MD, PhD, and Anthony E. Oro, MD, PhD
Shaogeng (Steven) Tang, PhD
"Toward small-molecule inhibitors against human immune checkpoint PD-1"
with Peter S. Kim, PhD
Kathryn R. Taylor, PhD
"The effect of neuronal activity on pediatric glioma invasion"
with Michelle L. Monje, MD, PhD
Peng Wu, MD, PhD
"Understanding and modulating aberrant differentiation in Hepatoblastoma"
with Roeland Nusse, PhD
Stanford University School of Medicine
Yiming Chen, PhD
"Optical interrogation of neuropeptide and peptide hormones"
with Karl Deisseroth, MD, PhD
Shuo Han, PhD
"Spatiotemporally precise manipulation of Hedgehog signaling for tissue regeneration and repair"
with Philip A. Beachy, PhD
Andrew L. Ji, MD
"Cancer cell-extrinsic and intrinsic control of tumor progression and intratumoral heterogeneity"
with Paul A. Khavari, MD, PhD
Christopher P. Lapointe, PhD
"Regulatory roles of the 3' untranslated region in human translation"
with Joseph Puglisi, PhD
The Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Hokyung K. Chung, PhD
"Next generation adoptive cell therapy: SMARTER T cells for enhanced and durable anti-tumor immunity"
with Susan M. Kaech, PhD
The Scripps Research Institute
Danielle Grotjahn, PhD
"Uncovering structural mechanisms of mitochondrial fragmentation in cancer by cellular cryo-electron tomography"
Haoxin Li, PhD
"Cysteine-modification screening to identify functional and druggable sites in cancer dependencies"
with Benjamin F. Cravatt, PhD
University of California, Berkeley
Tess C. Branon, PhD
"Elucidating mechanisms of bidirectional host-microbiota communication"
with Gregory M. Barton, PhD
Steven W.M. Crossley, PhD
"Mapping targets for cancer therapeutics via Methionine-selective warheads"
with Christopher J. Chang, PhD, and Daniel K. Nomura, PhD
Allison Didychuk, PhD
"Viral mimics of host transcription factors in oncogenic herpesviruses"
with Britt Glaunsinger, PhD
Timothy J. Eisen, PhD
Mechanistic dissection of Tec kinases in immune-cell signaling
with John Kuriyan, PhD
Stephanie Gates, PhD
"Decoding the ubiquitin receptor recognition mechanism of the 26S proteasome"
with Andreas Martin, PhD
Jamie Lahvic, PhD
"Uncovering cell non-autonomous mechanisms of tumor suppression"
with Iswar Hariharan, MBBS, PhD
Andrew C. Murley, PhD
"Cell non-autonomous communication of ER stress resistance"
with Andrew G. Dillin, PhD
Katy Ong, PhD
"Long-range tumor-host signaling mechanisms driving paraneoplastic syndromes"
with David Bilder, PhD
University of California, Los Angeles
Yajing Gao, PhD
Characterize the role of non-vesicular cholesterol transport in CD8+ T cell function
with Peter Tontonoz, MD, PhD
Anusha Kalbasi, MD
"IL13Ra2 Chimeric Antigen Receptor (CAR) T cells for metastatic melanoma"
with Antoni Ribas, MD, PhD, and Christine Brown, PhD
Christina M. Termini, PhD
"Proteoglycan remodeling of the bone marrow niche regulates hematopoietic stem cell regeneration"
with John P. Chute, MD, and Karen M. Lyons, PhD
University of California, San Francisco
Collin M. Blakely, MD, PhD
"Mechanisms of incomplete response and primary resistance to osimertinib in EGFR-mutant lung cancer"
with Trever G. Bivona, MD, PhD
Fangyu Liu, PhD
Discovery of novel ligands with polypharmacology and selectivity profiles for GPCRs involved in pain
with Brian Shoichet, PhD
Trang Nguyen, PhD
"Bypassing the unresponsiveness of T cell anergy and exhaustion"
with Arthur Weiss, MD, PhD
Tristan Wold Owens, PhD
"Molecular mechanisms of heat shock transcription factor 1 in cancer"
with David Agard, PhD
Cristina Puchades, PhD
"Deciphering the molecular basis for modulation of TMEM16A activity"
with Yifan Cheng, PhD, and Lily Jan, PhD
Zulekha A. Qadeer, PhD
"Targeting TGFb pathway dependencies in Group 3 Medulloblastoma"
with William A. Weiss, MD, PhD
Sukrit Silas, PhD
"Discovery and characterization of virally-encoded proteins of unknown function"
with Joseph Bondy-Denomy, PhD, and Carol A. Gross, PhD
Catherine C. Smith, MD
"Defining structure, function and therapeutic impact of oncogenic FLT3 mutations"
with Neil P. Shah, MD, PhD
Adam J. Stevens, PhD
"Synthetic adhesion molecules: redirecting cell infiltration and organization"
with Wendell A. Lim, PhD
Kouki Touhara, PhD
"Investigating chemical signaling between gut enteroendocrine cells and intrinsic primary afferent neurons"
with David Julius, PhD
Yale University
Luisa F. Escobar-Hoyos, PhD
"Understanding RNA splicing in tumor-cell adaptation and anti-tumor immunity"
Sigrid Nachtergaele, PhD
"Identifying novel mechanisms of gene expression regulation through mRNA modifications"
The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Jonathan C. Dudley, MD
"Earlier detection of cancer in body cavity fluids through aneuploidy analysis after cell enrichment and partitioning"
with Bert Vogelstein, MD
Boston Children's Hospital
Liudmila Andreeva, PhD
"Making an inflammasome: Structural and biochemical elucidation of NLRP3 inflammasome activation"
with Hao Wu, PhD
Aaron L. Moye, PhD
"Role of Lgr6-expressing Mesenchymal cells in lung cancer initiation and progression"
with Carla Kim, PhD
Esteban A. Orellana Vinueza, PhD
"Role of METTL1-WDR4 tRNA methyltransferase complex in cancer"
with Richard I. Gregory, PhD
Yuxiang Zhang, MD, PhD
"Mechanisms that promote DNA double strand break clusters in brain and liver"
with Frederick W. Alt, PhD
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Edmond M. Chan, MD
"Validating a novel synthetic lethal target for microsatellite unstable cancers"
with Adam J. Bass, MD
Eric S. Fischer, PhD
"Novel mechanisms for small molecule induced targeted degradation of RRM family proteins"
Christopher J. Gibson, MD
"The biology and clinical implications of clonal hematopoiesis in cancer patients"
with Benjamin L. Ebert, MD, PhD
Lillian M. Guenther, MD
"Investigation of CITED2 as a novel dependency in Ewing sarcoma"
with Kimberly Stegmaier, MD
Tikvah K. Hayes, PhD
"Systematic genomic and functional analysis of small cell lung cancer"
with Matthew L. Meyerson, MD, PhD
Whitney Johnson, PhD
"Using organoid cancer models to identify genome catastrophe mechanisms"
with David Pellman, MD
Birgit Knoechel, MD, PhD
"Mechanisms of CD8+ T-cell dysfunction and its therapeutic targeting in T-ALL"
with Kimberly Stegmaier, MD, and Catherine J. Wu, MD
Sarah Naomi Olsen, PhD
"Targeted degradation of the MLL-AF9 fusion oncoprotein in acute myeloid leukemia"
with Scott A. Armstrong, MD, PhD
Matthew G. Oser, MD, PhD
"Targeting neuroendocrine differentiation as a novel therapeutic strategy for small cell lung cancer"
with William G. Kaelin, Jr., MD
Harshabad Singh, MBBS
"Epigenetic evolution of pancreatic adenocarcinoma during combination chemotherapy"
with Brian M. Wolpin, MD, MPH, and Andrew J. Aguirre, MD, PhD
Parker L. Sulkowski, PhD
Investigation of histone secretion in cancer
with William G. Kaelin, Jr., MD
Harvard Medical School
Amelia N. Chang, PhD
"The role of activity-regulated gene expression in human brain evolution"
with Michael E. Greenberg, PhD
Erin E. Duffy, PhD
"Activity-dependent changes in RNA stability as a mechanism for synaptic plasticity"
with Michael E. Greenberg, PhD
Pragya Goel, PhD
"Signaling structure for neuromodulatory coding in the vertebrate striatum"
with Pascal Kaeser, MD
Rachel Segal Greenberg, PhD
"Developing functional diversity in interoceptive circuits"
with Stephen Liberles, PhD
Nagarajan Nandagopal, PhD
"Signal integration by bHLH circuits to enable cell fate decisions"
with Galit Lahav, PhD, and Sean Megason, PhD
Nikit Patel, PhD
"Dissecting the transcriptional logic underlying neural tube development"
with Allon Klein, PhD
Sarah J. Pfau, PhD
"Investigating the molecular determinants of blood-brain barrier heterogeneity"
with Chenghua Gu, PhD
Maxim Pimkin, MD, PhD
"Divergent core transcriptional circuitries highlight context-specific vulnerabilities in AML"
with Stuart Orkin, MD
Deepshika Ramanan, PhD
"Identifying functions of regulatory T cell subsets in intestinal inflammation and colorectal cancer"
with Christophe Benoist, MD, PhD
Jonathan G. Van Vranken
“Development and application of proteome-wide thermal shift assays"
with Steven Gygi
Shou-Wen Wang, PhD
"Inferring cell fate choice from clonal and transcriptomic data, with application to hematopoiesis"
with Allon M. Klein, PhD, and Fernando Camargo, PhD
Harvard University
Rongxin Fang, PhD
Genome-scale imaging of enhancer-promoter interactions in cancer at single cell resolution
with Xiaowei Zhuang, PhD
Grace E. Kenney, PhD
"Two enzymatic routes towards diazo biosynthesis in cytotoxic natural products"
with Emily P. Balskus, PhD
Thomas R. LaBar, PhD
"Elucidating the mechanisms of cellular evolution with experimental evolution"
with Andrew W. Murray, PhD
Massachusetts General Hospital
Stefan Niekamp, PhD
Understanding the switch: Competition between chromatin remodeler and polycomb repressive complexes
with Robert Kingston, PhD
Jan P. Schuemann, PhD
“Using extreme dose rates to protect healthy tissue in proton radiation therapy”
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Michael E. Birnbaum, PhD
"Decoding and reprogramming tumor-infiltrating T cells by pMHC-targeted lentiviruses"
Jon McGinn, PhD
"Dissecting the genetic networks underlying host subversion during Rickettsia infection"
with Rebecca Lamason, PhD, and Michael Laub, PhD
Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research
Laura Blanton, PhD
"The impact of sex chromosome constitution on immune cell gene expression and function"
with David C. Page, MD
Elizabeth A. Boydston, PhD
"Exploring the cell adhesion landscape through host-pathogen interactions"
with Sebastian Lourido, PhD
Daniel H. Lin, PhD
"The influence of RNA and protein conformation on target-directed miRNA degradation"
with David P. Bartel, PhD
Jingchuan Luo, PhD
"Deciphering roles of nuclear-mitochondrial communication in cellular homeostasis"
with Jonathan Weissman, PhD
Alexandra Nguyen, PhD
"Defining the cell type specific cell division requirements in acute myeloid leukemias"
with Iain M. Cheeseman, PhD
Princeton University
Caroline Bartman, PhD
"Systems analysis of in vivo tumor and stromal cell metabolism in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma"
with Joshua Rabinowitz, MD, PhD
Andrew A. Bridges, PhD
"Bacterial cell fates: The role of quorum sensing in biofilm patterning"
with Bonnie L. Bassler, PhD
Courtney Ellison, PhD
"The role of type IV pili in Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilm formation"
with Joshua Shaevitz, PhD, and Zemer Gitai, PhD
Columbia University
Jessie A. Brown, PhD
"Master regulators of drug resistance in relapsed acute lymphoblastic leukemia"
with Adolfo A. Ferrando, MD, PhD
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Vinod P. Balachandran, MD
"Recombinant interleukin-33 immunotherapy for pancreatic cancer"
with Steven D. Leach, MD, and Jedd D. Wolchok, MD, PhD
Tin Yi Chu, PhD
"Statistical modeling of cell-cell interactions in normal intestine, inflammatory bowel disease and colorectal cancer using single cell and spatial transcriptomics"
with Dana Pe’er, PhD, and Elaine V. Fuchs, PhD
Andrew J. Dunbar, MD
"Interrogating functional contribution of JAK2V617F in the maintenance of myeloproliferative neoplasms"
with Ross L. Levine, MD
Siting Gan, PhD
"In situ single-cell dissection of the tumor-microenvironment interplay mediating brain metastasis"
with Joan Massagué, PhD, and Dana Pe'er, PhD
Karuna Ganesh, MD, PhD
"Leveraging patient-derived organoid models to define the molecular determinants of metastatic regeneration"
with Joan Massagué, PhD
Matthew D. Hellmann, MD
"Defining intratumoral and peripheral mechanisms mediating initiation of response, durability, and resistance to PD-1 blockade to inform rational immunotherapeutic development in NSCLC"
with Charles M. Rudin, MD, PhD, and Jedd D. Wolchok, MD, PhD
Andrew M. Intlekofer, MD, PhD
"Metabolic coupling of the hypoxic niche to stemness"
with Ross L. Levine, MD
Christopher A. Klebanoff, MD
"Clinical development of next-generation T cell receptor (TCR)-based adoptive immunotherapies for the treatment of patients with common epithelial malignancies"
with Michel Sadelain, MD, PhD, and Larry Norton, MD
Piro Lito, MD, PhD
"Modeling responses to targeted ERK signaling inhibition at the single-cell level"
with Neal X. Rosen, MD, PhD, and Charles M. Rudin, MD, PhD
Kaixian Liu, PhD
"The studies of double-strand break proteins in germline genome transmission"
with Scott Keeney, PhD, and Shixin Liu, PhD
Elli Papaemmanuil, PhD
"Biological and clinical implications of allelic imbalances in clonal hematopoiesis and subsequent risk of therapy related leukemia"
Jose Reyes, PhD
"Dynamics and consequences of complex karyotype evolution in p53 driven acute myeloid leukemia"
with Scott Lowe, PhD, and Dana Pe'er, PhD
Melody Smith, MD
"CD19 targeted donor T cells improve graft versus tumor activity and reduce graft versus host disease"
with Marcel R.M. van den Brink, MD, PhD
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center/The Rockefeller University
Dennis J. Hsu, MD
"Metabolic determinants of codon usage bias in colorectal cancer"
with Sohail F. Tavazoie, MD, PhD
New York University Grossman School of Medicine
Nicholas Adams, PhD
"Elucidating how pDC genome organization regulates IFN production in cancer"
with Boris Reizis, PhD
Stony Brook University
Benjamin L. Martin, PhD
"Cell cycle regulation of cellular behaviors associated with cancer metastasis"
The Rockefeller University
Aleksey Chudnovskiy, PhD
"Defining dendritic cell-T cell interaction history within the tumor microenvironment using enzymatic labeling"
with Gabriel D. Victora, PhD
Gregory P. Donaldson, PhD
"Cross-talk between B lymphocytes and bacteria in the maintenance of a non-inflammatory mucosal microbiome"
with Daniel Mucida, PhD
Anita Gola, PhD
"A spatially patterned stem cell and immune cell barrier at the skin surface"
with Elaine V. Fuchs, PhD
Gokhan Unlu, PhD
Targeting cancer nutrient limitations using dietary interventions
with Kivanc Birsoy, PhD
Weill Cornell Medicine
Christopher E. Barbieri, MD, PhD
"Subtype-specific modes of clinical and molecular progression in prostate cancer"
with Lewis C. Cantley, PhD
John R. Ferrarone, MD
"Seeking and evaluating novel therapeutic targets in human lung adenocarcinomas with loss-of-function mutations in LKB1"
with Harold E. Varmus, MD
Eric E. Gardner, PharmD, PhD
"Interrogating lung adenocarcinoma transformation to small cell lung cancer at single cell resolution"
with Harold E. Varmus, MD
Duke University
Lawrence A. David, PhD
"Personalized prebiotics to optimize microbiota metabolism and improve transplant outcomes"
Nicholas C. DeVito, MD
"Investigating the role of EMT-mediated dendritic cell tolerization in checkpoint inhibitor resistance"
with Brent A. Hanks, MD, PhD
Yvonne M. Mowery, MD, PhD
"Evaluating and targeting pathways of treatment resistance in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma"
with David G. Kirsch, MD, PhD
Oregon Health & Science University
Jeremy Copperman, PhD
"Whole-cell modeling for the prediction and control of micro-environmentally regulated proliferative and migratory variability"
with Daniel M. Zuckerman, PhD, and Joe W. Gray, PhD
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
Brian C. Capell, MD, PhD
"Defining the role of epigenetic enhancer dysfunction in epithelial carcinogenesis"
with Shelley L. Berger, PhD
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Katherine E. Gadek, PhD
"Defining endothelial progenitor cell pliancy in rhabdomyosarcoma"
with Mark Hatley, MD, PhD, and Stacey Ogden, PhD
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Natalie Vokes, MD
"Dissecting tumor intrinsic and immune drivers of resistance to therapy in non-small cell lung cancer"
with John V. Heymach, MD, PhD
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Todd A. Aguilera, MD, PhD
"Immunologic responses to short course radiotherapy in rectal adenocarcinoma and the impact of CD40 agonist immunotherapy"
with Robert D. Timmerman, MD, and Yang-Xin Fu, MD, PhD
Gabriel Muhire Gihana, PhD
Cell morphological modulation of oncogenic Ras signaling
with Gaudenz Danuser, PhD
University of Utah
Matthew P. Miller, PhD
"Deciphering tension-dependent stabilization of kinetochore-microtubule interactions"
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Tal Einav, PhD
"Quantifying a polyclonal immune repertoire's ability to bind influenza"
with Jesse D. Bloom, PhD, and Jonathan W. Yewdell, MD, PhD
Jay F. Sarthy, MD, PhD
"Characterization of the epigenomic landscape of diffuse midline gliomas"
with Steven Henikoff, PhD, and James Olson, MD, PhD
University of Washington
Junhong Choi, PhD
"Determinants and consequences of DNA replication program"
with Jay A. Shendure, MD, PhD
Washington University
Vivek K. Arora, MD, PhD
"Defining a targetable oncogenic dyad in bladder cancer"
with Lee Ratner, MD, PhD
