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Cancer Metabolism Focus Group

Meet the Cancer Metabolism Focus Group

Executive Committee Members

Faculty Members

NameEmailDepartment
Antonyak, Marc
Associate Research Professor
maa27@cornell.eduMolecular Medicine
Barrow, Joeva
Assistant Professor
jb2254@cornell.eduNutritional Sciences
Castelhano, Marta
Associate Research Professor
Director, Cornell Veterinary Biobank
mgc27@cornell.eduClinical Sciences
Cerione, Richard
Distinguished Professor of Arts and Science in Chemistry
rac1@cornell.eduMolecular Medicine
Dongre, Anushka
Assistant Professor
ad789@cornell.eduBiomedical Sciences
Evans, Jacquelyn
Assistant Professor
jme255@cornell.eduBiomedical Sciences
Fischbach-Teschl, Claudia
Stanley Bryer 1946 Professor of Biomedical Engineering
cf99@cornell.eduBiomedical Engineering
Hayward, Jess
Senior Research Associate
jessica.hayward@cornell.eduBiomedical Sciences
Hume, Kelly
Associate Professor
krh73@cornell.eduClinical Sciences
Ichikawa, Saki
Assistant Professor
saki.ichikawa@cornell.eduMolecular Medicine
Jameson Jordan, Antonia
Senior Lecturer
kaj4@cornell.eduBiomedical Sciences
Krumsiek, Jan
Associate Professor
jak2043@med.cornell.eduWeill Cornell Medical College
Lammerding, Jan
Associate Director of Biomedical Engineering
Professor
jan.lammerding@cornell.eduBiomedical Engineering
Nwosu, Zeribe
Assistant Professor
zcn3@cornell.eduMolecular Biology and Genetics
Peralta, Santiago
Associate Professor
sp888@cornell.eduClinical Sciences
Sethupathy, Praveen
Professor
pr46@cornell.eduBiomedical Sciences
Simmons, Glenn
Assistant Professor
ges246@cornell.eduBiomedical Sciences
Vacanti, Nathaniel
Assistant Professor
nv83@cornell.eduNutritional Sciences
Weiss, Robert
Professor
rsw26@cornell.eduBiomedical Sciences
White, Andrew
Associate Professor
acw93@cornell.eduBiomedical Sciences
Yu, Haiyuan
Tisch University Professor
Director, Center for Innovative Proteomics (CIP)
haiyuan.yu@cornell.eduComputational Biology

Events

CMFG members meet on the first Thursday every month to share cutting-edge research at the interface of cancer, metabolism, and immunometabolism. We encourage talks from trainees and have created this seminar series to provide them with a platform to showcase their on-going, unpublished, or published work.

Upcoming Events

DatePresenterLabTitle
Feb 5, 2026Shiney Chandraganti Dongre LabCD4+ T-Cells Sensitize Quasi-Mesenchymal Breast Tumors Lacking CD73 to Anti-CTLA4 Immune Checkpoint Blockade Therapy
March 5, 2026Matthew WilliamsBarrow LabThe Role of Nutrient Sequencing in Blood Glucose Homeostasis
April 2, 2026Christopher MellorWang LabFolate Deficiency Leads to Elevated Endogenous Production of the Genotoxic Carcinogen Formaldehyde
May 14, 2026Andy Yu-Wei Chang Weiss LabTBA

Past Events

DatePresenterLabTitle
Dec 4, 2025Tomer MarkovichCerione LabThe Role of Stem Cell Metabolites in Maintaining Pluripotency and Delaying Cellular Senescence
Nov 6, 2025Chiamaka EzehNwosu LabTargeting Glutathione Utilization to Improve Pancreatic Cancer Therapy
Oct 22-23, 2025Intercampus Cancer Metabolism Symposium
Oct 2, 2025Anthony Max ChenWeiss Lab                      SIRT5-Mediated Metabolic Regulation in Endothelial Cells of the Tumor Microenvironment Promotes Breast Cancer Vascularization and Progression
Sept 4, 2025 Brandon JamesWang LabInvestigating the Endogenous Sources of Formaldehyde in Acute Myeloid Leukemia
May 1, 2025Dong LongSethupathy LabThe Role and Therapeutic Potential of Orphan Transporter SLC16A14 in Fibrolamellar Carcinoma
April 3, 2025Jack CrowleyFischbach & Zipfel LabsTwo-Photon Fluorescence Polarization Imaging of NAD(P)H in Migrating Breast Cancer Cells
Mar 6, 2025Kimaya BakhleDongre LabPerturbing immune-suppressive adenosinergic signaling in heterogeneous epithelial-mesenchymal breast tumors
Feb 6, 2025Glenn SimmonsSimmons LabThe Potential of Lipids to Reshape Macrophage Function in the Tumor Microenvironment
Jan 16, 2025Zeribe NwosuNwosu LabMetabolomics profile of HDAC1-deleted pancreatic cancer cells
Dec 5, 2024Sarah HenrettaLammerding LabElucidating the role of nuclear envelope protein lamin A in breast cancer progression
Nov 7, 2024Pei-Yin TsaiBarrow LabGenetic Manipulation of Adipocyte Browning: An approach to Combat Cancer Cachexia’
Oct 24, 2024Jacob NeumannCerione LabThe Unexpected Connection Between Oncogenic KRAS, Survivin, and Warburg Glycolysis
Sept 5, 2024Don-Gerard CondeNwosu LabDissecting the role of histone deacetylase 1 in pancreatic cancer metabolism
Aug 1, 2024Destiny VanWeiss LabThe mitochondrial sirtuin SIRT5 promotes metastasis and supports the epithelial to mesenchymal transition in breast cancer
July 11, 2024Chris MellorWang LabCan we target genotoxic formaldehyde to prevent cancer?
June 13, 2024Brian FengDongre LabTargeting CD73/adenosinergic signaling in quasi-mesenchymal breast cancers to potentiate responses to immune checkpoint inhibition
May 2, 2024Don LongSethupathy LabThe Centrality of Amino Acids in Fibrolamellar Carcinoma

Contact Us

For more information about getting involved with CMFG, please contact: 

Heather Muñiz
CMFG Program Support
Department of Biomedical Sciences
College of Veterinary Medicine
hlm85@cornell.edu

Murine breast tumor expressing E-cadherin (white), Vimentin (red) and DAPI (blue)
Murine breast tumor expressing E-cadherin (white), Vimentin (red) and DAPI (blue)
Image credit: Sophie Nelissen
Phase contrast image of murine quasi-mesenchymal breast cancer cells
Phase contrast image of murine quasi-mesenchymal breast cancer cells. 
Image credit: Shiney Chandraganti
CD4+ T-cells present in breast tumors. CD4+ T-cell (red) and DAPI (blue)
CD4+ T-cells present in breast tumors. CD4+ T-cell (red) and DAPI (blue). 
Image credit: Brian Feng