2024 American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Annual Meeting

April 5 – April 10, 2024

San Diego Convention Center San Diego, California

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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