Summer Symposium 2012

Epigenetics, Plasticity, and Cancer

June 14, 2012

Speakers and Presentations

	Tyler Jacks, Ph.D. Director, Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research Massachusetts Institute of Technology Jacqueline Lees, Ph.D. Associate Director, Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research Massachusetts Institute of Technology Introductory Remarks and Overview View video
	Stephen Baylin, M.D. Deputy Director, Professor of Oncology and Medicine Chief of the Cancer Biology Division and Director for Research The Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center John Hopkins University “The Cancer Epigenome and Therapeutic Implications” View video
	Kristian Helin, Ph.D. Director of the Biotech Research & Innovation Centre (BRIC) University of Copenhagen “Functional roles of TET proteins in DNA methylation, stem cells and cancer”
	Peter W. Laird, Ph.D. Director of the USC Epigenome Center Professor of Surgery, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology University of Southern California “Exploring the Cancer Methylome”
	Richard Young, Ph.D. Member, Whitehead Institute Associate Member, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard External Faculty, Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research Professor of Biology Massachusetts Institute of Technology “Collaboration between transcriptional and epigenetic regulators” View video
	Jay Bradner, M.D. Staff Physician, Hematologic Malignancies Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School “Bromodomain Inhibition as Cancer Therapy”
	Victoria Richon, Ph.D. Vice President of Biological Sciences Epizyme “Protein Methyltransferase Inhibitors as Personalized Cancer Therapeutics” View video
	Jacqueline Lees, Ph.D. Professor of Biology Associate Director Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research Massachusetts Institute of Technology “Role of Bmi1 in intestinal development and tumorigenesis” View video
	Laurie Boyer, Ph.D. Sizer Career Development Assistant Professor of Biology Department of Biology Massachusetts Institute of Technology “Dynamic and Coordinated Regulation of Developmental Transitions in the Cardiac Lineage” View video
	Scott Armstrong, M.D., Ph.D. Associate Professor of Pediatrics Dana Farber Cancer Institute “Epigenetic Mechanisms and Leukemia Development” View video
	John Dick, Ph.D. Senior Scientist, Campbell Family Cancer Research Institute Ontario Cancer Institute Professor of Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto “Stem Cells in Cancer: Do they matter?” View video
	Tyler Jacks, Ph.D. Director, David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research David H. Koch Professor of Biology Massachusetts Institute of Technology Closing Remarks View Video