2024 American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Annual Meeting
DCEG scientists will present their research at the 2024 American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Annual Meeting at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego, California, from April 5 - 10, 2024.
See below for the DCEG-led workshops, presentations, and posters.
The full program can be found on the AACR website.
Saturday, April 6
Workshop
| Presenter | Session | Presentation Title | Time | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mia Gaudet | Existing and Emerging Cohort Study Resources for Future Discoveries | Connect for Cancer Prevention Study: An Emerging Cohort | 8:00 AM - 9:30 AM PDT | Room 11 - Upper Level |
| Bin Zhu | Analytic Resources and Applications for AACR Project GENIE BPC Clinico-genomic Data | Pan-cancer mutational signature analysis of 111,711 targeted sequenced tumors using SATS | 8:00 AM - 9:30 AM PDT | Room 28 - Upper Level |
Sunday, April 7
Presentations
| Presenter | Session | Presentation Title | Time | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nicolas Wentzensen | Population Sciences Working Group Meeting | Connect: A new cohort to study cancer causes and prevention | 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM PDT | Sapphire Ballroom – Hilton Bayfront Hotel |
Posters
| Presenter | Session | Presentation Title | Time | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vicky Chang | Environmental and Occupational Risk Factors, Infection, and Aging | Farm animal exposures and the oral microbiome in the Agricultural Health Study | 1:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT | Section 34 |
| Patricia Erickson | Environmental and Occupational Risk Factors, Infection, and Aging | Carbaryl use and cancer incidence in the Agricultural Health Study - an updated analysis | 1:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT | Section 34 |
| Wayne Lawrence | Cancer Disparities 1: Emerging Trends in Cancer Disparities Research | Severe housing cost burden and premature cancer mortality by state Medicaid expansion status | 1:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT | Section 33 |
| Lisa Mirabello | Prevention/Early Detection Interception: Epidemiology | Underlying germline genetic architecture of pediatric sarcomas: Evaluating the role of common and rare variants in 4,160 patients | 1:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT | Section 32 |
| Charles Rabkin | Prevention/Early Detection Interception: Epidemiology | GrafGen: Distance-Based Inference of Population Ancestry for Helicobacter pylori Genomes | 1:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT | Section 32 |
| Jongeun Rhee | Environmental and Occupational Risk Factors, Infection, and Aging | Serum concentrations of per- and polyfluorinated substances and risk of non-Hodgkin lymphoma | 1:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT | Section 34 |
| Deborah Tadesse | Environmental and Occupational Risk Factors, Infection, and Aging | Interaction between solvent exposure and genetic susceptibility and risk for bladder cancer | 1:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT | Section 34 |
| Jason Tribble | Environmental and Occupational Risk Factors, Infection, and Aging | The burden of Merkel cell carcinoma attributable to immunosuppression, ultraviolet radiation, and Merkel cell polyomavirus in the United States | 1:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT | Section 34 |
Monday, April 8
At the NCI Exhibit Booth, #1319
11:30 AM - 12:00 PM PDT
Nicolas Wentzensen will deliver a "Meet the Experts" session on the Connect for Cancer Prevention Study
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Jackie Lavigne will be at the booth to talk about fellowships in DCEG
DCEG Staff and Alumni Social Gathering
5:30 PM - 6:30 PM PDT
Join current staff and alumni the Hilton San Diego Bayfront Odysea Bar
Presentations
| Presenter | Session | Presentation Title | Time | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aimee Koestler | Cancer Disparities Research | HPV45 and HPV52 prevalence, within‐type variants, and precancer/cancer risks differ by race/ethnicity | 2:30 PM - 4:30 PM PDT | Room 14 - Mezzanine Level |
Posters
| Presenter | Session | Presentation Title | Time | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jazmyn Bess | Liquid Biopsy and Precision Oncology | Impact of delayed processing on cfDNA quantity and Qqality using STRECK cfDNA tubes: Connect pilot study | 9:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT | Section 36 |
| Michelle Ho | Cell Cycle, DNA Repair, and Telomere Biology | Exploring the role of a TERT intronic tandem repeat in regulating cell proliferative responses to environmental factors and cancer risk | 9:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT | Section 13 |
| Mitchell Machiela | Diet, Alcohol, Tobacco Use, and Other Lifestyle Risk Factors | Modifiable risk factors are associated with clonal hematopoiesis | 9:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT | Section 33 |
| Semi Zouiouich | Role of Diet, Nutrition, and the Microbiome Across the Cancer Continuum | Sample size estimations based on human microbiome temporal stability over six months: A shallow shotgun metagenome sequencing analysis | 9:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT | Section 33 |
| Thomas Ahearn | Risk Prediction Modeling, Screening, Early Detection, and Preneoplastic and Tumor Markers | Development and prospective validation of an estrogen receptor positive breast cancer risk model to identify women who could benefit for risk-reducing therapies | 1:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT | Section 33 |
| Demetrius Albanes | Population Sciences: Biomarkers of Endogenous or Exogenous Exposures, Early Detection, Biologic Effects, and Prognosis | Blood metabolomic profile of glioma risk: A pooled, multi-cohort analysis in COMETS | 1:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT | Section 32 |
| Kara Barnao | Population Sciences: Biomarkers of Endogenous or Exogenous Exposures, Early Detection, Biologic Effects, and Prognosis | Characterization of co-occurring clonal hematopoiesis to identify high risk clones associated with hematologic cancer risk | 1:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT | Section 32 |
| Somayina Ezennia | Population Sciences: Biomarkers of Endogenous or Exogenous Exposures, Early Detection, Biologic Effects, and Prognosis | Associations Between Estimated Endotoxin Exposure and Circulating Immunological Markers Among Male Farmers | 1:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT | Section 22 |
| Rebecca Kelly | Biomarkers of Endogenous or Exogenous Exposures, Early Detection, Biologic Effects, and Prognosis | Mosaic loss of the Y chromosome is associated with prostate cancer risk | 1:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT | Section 32 |
| Gulzar Daya | Late-Breaking Research: Molecular/Cellular Biology and Genetics 1 | Methylation subtypes of skull base chordoma | 1:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT | Section 53 |
| Tongwu Zhang | Late-Breaking Research: Tumor Biology 1 | Deciphering lung adenocarcinoma evolution and the role of LINE-1 retrotransposition | 1:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT | Section 54 |
Tuesday, April 9
At the NCI Exhibit Booth, #1319
9:30 - 10:00 AM PDT
Mia Gaudet will deliver a "Meet the Experts" session on the Connect for Cancer Prevention Study
3:00 - 5:00 PM
Jackie Lavigne will be at the booth to talk about fellowships in DCEG.
Posters
| Presenter | Session | Presentation Title | Time | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yingxi Chen | Cancer Disparities 2: Survivorship Research Addressing Cancer Disparities | Patterns and predictors of opioid dispensing among older cancer patients from 2008 to 2015 | 9:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT | Section 33 |
| Isabel Rodriguez | Characterization of Mutational Processes and Drivers in Cancer Development and Evolution | Insight into the structure of breakage fusion bridge events and chromothripsis in cancer cell lines using long-read sequencing | 9:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT | Section 15 |
| Monjoy Saha | Late-Breaking Research: Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Systems Biology, and Convergent Science 2 | Deep learning-based molecular characterization of lung cancers from never smokers using hematoxylin and eosin-stained whole slide images | 9:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT | Section 51 |
| Sonam Tulsyan | Characterization of Mutational Processes and Drivers in Cancer Development and Evolution | A high rate of episomal HPV 16 is present in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma tumors by long-read whole genome sequencing | 9:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT | Section 15 |
| Batel Blechter | Population Sciences/Genetic Epidemiology 1: GxE, GWAS, and Next-Generation Sequencing | Polygenic risk score and lung adenocarcinoma risk among never-smokers by EGFR mutation status | 1:30 - 5:00 PM PDT | Section 33 |
| Alexandra Harris | Cancer Disparities 3: Using Molecular Epidemiological Approaches to Decipher Cancer Disparities | Investigation of breast tumor biology and microenvironment in women of African descent using a single cell multiomic approach | 1:30 - 5:00 PM PDT | Section 32 |
| Lydia He | Population Sciences | Genome-wide association study identifies new genetic susceptibility loci For multiple primary cancers | 1:30 - 5:00 PM PDT | Section 33 |
| Wen-Yi Huang | Population Sciences/Genetic Epidemiology 1: GxE, GWAS, and Next-Generation Sequencing | Relationship between polygenic risk score, lifestyle factors, and colorectal cancer risk | 1:30 - 5:00 PM PDT | Section 33 |
| Aubrey Hubbard | Population Sciences/Genetic Epidemiology 1: GxE, GWAS, and Next-Generation Sequencing | Multiple new Ewing sarcoma susceptibility loci expand knowledge of germline genetic etiology and nominate mechanisms of risk | 1:30 - 5:00 PM PDT | Section 33 |
| Azhar Khandekar | Genomic Changes and Intratumoral Heterogeneity as Predictive Biomarkers for Clinical Outcome | Extrachromosomal DNA in lung cancer from never smokers | 1:30 - 5:00 PM PDT | Section 53 |
| Timothy Winter | Population Sciences/Genetic Epidemiology 1: GxE, GWAS, and Next-Generation Sequencing | Targeted CRISPRi screen identifies functional variants and novel target genes at multiple renal cell carcinoma (RCC) susceptibility loci | 1:30 - 5:00 PM PDT | Section 33 |
| Shahriar Zamani | Population Sciences/Genetic Epidemiology 1: GxE, GWAS, and Next-Generation Sequencing | Germline variants in cancer susceptibility genes and subsequent neoplasm risks after childhood cancer: A pooled analysis of two large-scale cohorts | 1:30 - 5:00 PM PDT | Section 33 |
| Wei Zhao | Genomic Changes and Intratumoral Heterogeneity as Predictive Biomarkers for Clinical Outcome | Transcriptomic profiling of lung adenocarcinoma from never-smokers reveals molecular subtypes with clinical implications | 1:30 - 5:00 PM PDT | Section 16 |
Wednesday, April 10
Poster
| Presenter | Session | Presentation Title | Time | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alex Kane | Genetic Epidemiology 2: Family Studies, Pathway Analysis, and Functional Genetics | Investigating the cell-type specific regulation of IRF4 and its role in lung cancer via a lung cancer risk-associated pleiotropic variant | 9:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT | Section 31 |
| Brenen Papenberg | Modifications and Signaling to Cancer Drivers | Epidemiology meets epitranscriptomics: Exploring the cancer-related role of a novel TERT-antisense transcript and its regulation by RNA methylation | 9:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT | Section 18 |