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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talks from trainees and have created this seminar series to provide them with a platform to showcase their on-going, unpublished, or published work. A list of current and past seminar speakers can be found on this page.

Upcoming Events

DatePresenterLabTitle
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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
October 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
Kimaya Bakhle
Kimaya Bakhle, graduate student in the Dongre Lab presenting at the CMFG Research Highlights seminar series.
Immune cells present in a murine model of heterogeneous breast tumors. T-cells (purple), Macrophages (green) and DAPI (blue)
Immune cells present in a murine model of heterogeneous breast tumors. T-cells (purple), Macrophages (green) and DAPI (blue). 
Image credit: Kimaya Bakhle
Feline mammary carcinoma expressing E-cadherin (white), Vimentin (red) and DAPI (blue)
Feline mammary carcinoma expressing E-cadherin (white), Vimentin (red) and DAPI (blue). 
Image credit: Sophie Nelissen