Cancer Cell Biology Course, Fall 2020
The course directors are Anna Lasorella and Richard Baer.
Classes will be online through Zoom Meetings on select Mondays and Wednesdays from 5:00 - 6:30 pm.
Course textbook: The Biology of Cancer (2nd edition, 2014) by Robert A. Weinberg
Oncogenes and Tumor Suppressor Genes
- Wednesday, September 9, 20205:00 PM to 6:30 PM
Cell culture, telomeres, retroviral oncogenes
Zoom MeetingRichard Baer
- Wednesday, September 16, 20205:00 PM to 6:30 PM
Cancer prone syndromes and tumor suppressors
Zoom MeetingAnna Lasorella
- Monday, September 21, 20205:00 PM to 6:30 PM
RB pathway and the control of cell cycle clock
Zoom MeetingAntonio Iavarone
- Wednesday, September 23, 20205:00 PM to 6:30 PM
P53 pathway: apoptosis and much more
Zoom MeetingWei Gu
Tumor Progression
- Monday, September 28, 20205:00 PM to 6:30 PM
Cancer evolution and genomics
Zoom MeetingRaul Rabadan (Department of Systems Biology)
- Wednesday, September 30, 20205:00 PM to 6:30 PM
Single-cell analysis of tumor progression
Zoom MeetingPeter Sims (Department of Systems Biology)
Genomic Instability
- Wednesday, October 7, 20205:00 PM to 6:30 PM
DNA damage response, checkpoint failure and chromosomal instability
Zoom MeetingAlberto Ciccia (Department of Genetics & Development)
- Wednesday, October 14, 20205:00 PM to 6:30 PM
DNA damage-directed therapies
Zoom MeetingJean Gautier
Mid-Term Test
Cancer Diagnostic/Modeling
- Monday, October 19, 20205:00 PM to 6:30 PM
Histopathology/molecular pathology
Zoom MeetingHanina Hibshoosh (Department of Pathology & Cell Biology)
- Wednesday, October 21, 20205:00 PM to 6:30 PM
Animal Models
Zoom MeetingCory Abate-Shen
Cancer Cell Re-programming
- Wednesday, October 28, 20205:00 PM to 6:30 PM
Cancer plasticity/cancer stem cells
Zoom MeetingMichael Shen
Heterotypic Interactions
- Wednesday, November 4, 20205:00 PM to 6:30 PM
Angiogenesis
Zoom MeetingMinah Kim (Department of Pathology & Cell Biology)
- Monday, November 9, 20205:00 PM to 6:30 PM
Invasion and metastasis
Zoom MeetingSwarnali Acharyya
- Monday, November 16, 20205:00 PM to 6:30 PM
Tumor microenvironment and Tumor immunology
Zoom MeetingRobert Schwabe (Institute of Human Nutrition)
Treatment Of Cancer
- Wednesday, November 18, 20205:00 PM to 6:30 PM
Rational treatment of cancer and therapy resistance
Zoom MeetingAdolfo Ferrando
Cancer Types As Models In Cancer Research
- Monday, November 30, 20205:00 PM to 6:30 PM
B-cell lymphoma
Zoom MeetingRiccardo Dalla Favera
- Wednesday, December 2, 20205:00 PM to 6:30 PM
T-ALL
Zoom MeetingTeresa Palomero and Adolfo Ferrando
- Monday, December 7, 20205:00 PM to 6:30 PM
Glioblastomas
Zoom MeetingAntonio Iavarone and Anna Lasorella
- Wednesday, December 9, 20205:00 PM to 6:30 PM
Gastro-intestinal cancer
Zoom MeetingAnil Rustgi
Final Test