Chair
Bethany Hannafon, BS, PhD
University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center
Co-Chair
Piyali Dasgupta, PhD
Marshall University
Session Description: This session will examine the role of the tumor microenvironment in primary breast cancer development to metastatic dissemination and therapeutic resistance. Attendees will hear from leaders in the breast cancer field about tumor-host crosstalk mediated by extracellular vesicles, the role of the immune microenvironment in cancer progression, tumor cell dormancy and its role in therapeutic resistance, and the role of the lymph node tumor microenvironment in the progression of lymph node breast cancer metastases.
| Chair - Welcome and Introductions | ||
| 9:30 AM - 10:00 AM | Cancer - Host Crosstalk Through Extracellular miRNA Shizhue Emily Wang, PhD • University of California, San Diego |
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| 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM | Epigenetic Regulation of Immune Microenvironment and Breast Cancer Metastasis Qin Yan, PhD • Yale University |
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| 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM | Lymph Node Metastases Induce Loss of High Endothelial Venules and Lack of Lymphocyte Infiltration Dennis Jones, PhD • Boston University School of Medicine |
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| 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM | Neutralizing Protumor Inflammation: Lessons Learned from Preclinical Mouse Models Lisa Coussens, PhD • Oregon Health & Science University |
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