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2024 American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Annual Meeting

NCI Division fo Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics at AACR Annual Meeting 2024

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

photograph of Jackie Lavigne

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
Photograph of Mia Gaudet

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

 

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