2023 American Association for Cancer Research Annual Conference

April 14 – April 19, 2023

Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Florida

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Several DCEG scientists will present their research at the 2023 American Association for Cancer Research Annual Conference at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Florida from  April 14-19, 2023.

 

The full program can be found on the AACR website. 

 

Saturday, April 15

Presentation

Presenter	Session	Presentation Title	Time	Location
Jill Barnholtz-Sloan	Using Data in Population Science  (Educational Session)	#DataMatter:Leveraging NCI Datasets for Cancer Discovery and Impact	12:30 - 2:00 PM EDT	Room W311 A-D

Sunday, April 16

Presentations

Presenter	Session	Presentation Title	Time	Location
Aubrey Hubbard	Beyond GWAS: Understanding Etiologic Heterogeneity (Minisymposium)	Mosaic chromosomal alterations are independent predictors of chronic lymphocytic leukemia risk	3:00 - 5:00 PM EDT	Room W304 E-H
Tongwu Zhang	Tumor Heterogeneity at Single-cell Resolution in Space and Time (Minisymposium)	APOBEC deaminases compete with tobacco smoking mutagenesis and affect age at onset of lung cancer	3:00 - 5:00 PM EDT	Tangerine Ballroom 1 (WF1)

Poster

Presenter	Session	Presentation Title	Time	Location
Gretchen Benson-Gierach	Omics and Imaging Approaches in Cancer Risk, Early Detection, and Response Assessment	Temporal changes in mammographic breast density and breast cancer risk among women with benign breast disease	1:30 - 5:00 PM EDT	Section 28

Monday, April 17

*Updated NCI Exhibit

Jackie Lavigne will be at the NCI Exhibit, Booth #809, from 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM EDT to talk about fellowships in DCEG. 

Presentation

Presenter	Session	Presentation Title	Time	Location
Mohammed Rahman	Epigenetics Mechanisms in Cancer (Minisymposium)	Epigenome-wide association study of lung cancer among never-smokers in two prospective cohorts in Shanghai	2:30 - 4:30 PM EDT	Tangerine Ballroom 3-4 (WF3-4)

Posters

Presenter	Session	Presentation Title	Time	Location
Jesica Godinez- Paredes	Population Sciences - Cancer Disparities 2	Germline mutations in hereditary breast cancer genes are associated with early age at diagnosis and family history in Guatemalan and US Hispanic breast cancer	9:00 AM - 12:30 PM EDT	Section 27
Jungeun Lim	Population Sciences - Cancer Disparities 2	Black-White differences in prospective serum metabolites and biochemical pathways associated with prostate cancer risk in a COMETS consortium project	9:00 AM - 12:30 PM EDT	Section 27
Courtney Dill	Population Sciences - Cancer Disparities 2	Association of genetic ancestry with all-cause mortality in White and Black ever-smokers in the PLCO cohort	9:00 AM - 12:30 PM EDT	Section 27
Alyssa Klein	New Analysis Tools	Sherlock-Genome: A R shiny app for genomic analysis and visualization	9:00 AM - 12:30 PM EDT	Section 33
Jian Sang	New Analysis tools	gCNV-Seeker: A comprehensive germline CNV calling pipeline based on whole genome sequencing data	9:00 AM - 12:30 PM EDT	Section 33
Wayne Lawrence	Aging, Immune Factors, and Metabolomics	Psychosocial Stress, Social Support, and Incident Breast Cancer by Estrogen Receptor Status	1:30 - 5:00 PM EDT	Section 27
Zhiwei Liu	Aging, Immune Factors, and Metabolomics	The Immunogenetic Basis of Hepatitis B Virus-related Hepatocellular Carcinoma	1:30 - 5:00 PM EDT	Section 27
Jason Wong	Aging, Immune Factors, and Metabolomics	Measured and genetically-predicted leukocyte telomere length and lung cancer risk in the prospective UK Biobank	1:30 - 5:00 PM EDT	Section 27
Semi Zouiouich	Biological and Behavioral Factors in Cancer Surveillance, Prevention, and Survivorship	Quality control samples for future population-based microbiome studies	1:30 - 5:00 PM EDT	Section 28

Tuesday, April 18

Presentations

Presenter	Session	Presentation Title	Time	Location
Brittany Lord	Decoding the Origins of Drug Resistance Phenotypes in Cancer (Advances in Organ Site Research)	Investigating biological mediators of social and environmental risk factors on cancer health disparities	10:15 - 11:45 AM EDT	Room W224
Bin Zhu	The Next Wave of Precision Oncology: New Drugs, Databases, and Analytics to Refine Care (Minisymposium)	The mutational signatures of 100,477 targeted sequenced tumors	2:30 - 4:30 PM EDT	Room W414

Posters

Presenter	Session	Presentation Title	Time	Location
Batel Blechter	Descriptive Epidemiology and Environmental Risk Factors	Smoky coal exposure is associated with epigenetic accelerated aging	9:00 AM - 12:30 PM EDT	Section 29
Patricia Erickson	Descriptive Epidemiology and Environmental Risk Factors	Occupational Pesticide Use and Relative Leukocyte Telomere Length in the Biomarkers of Exposure and Effect in Agriculture Study	9:00 AM - 12:30 PM EDT	Section 29
Jongeun Rhee	Descriptive Epidemiology and Environmental Risk Factors	A metabolomic investigation of serum perfluorooctane sulfonate and perfluorooctanoate	9:00 AM - 12:30 PM EDT	Section 29
Rohit Thakur	GWAS/Post-GWAS	Integrative analysis of 3D chromatin organization at GWAS loci identifies RAPGEF1 as a melanoma susceptibility gene	1:30 - 5:00 PM EDT	Section 26
Monjoy Saha	Artificial Intelligence and Machine/Deep Learning 2	Comparison of deep learning approaches applied to hematoxylin and eosin-stained whole slide images from women with benign breast disease to predict risk of developing invasive breast cancer	1:30 - 5:00 PM EDT	Section 32

Wednesday, April 19

Poster

Presenter	Session	Presentation Title	Time	Location
Mohammad Rahman	Metabolism and Metabolomics of Cancer	A nested case-control study of untargeted plasma metabolomics and lung cancer risk among never-smoking women in the prospective Shanghai Women’s Health Study	9:00 AM - 12:30 PM EDT	Section 29