2009 Cancer Biology Chair & Program Directors Retreat and Cancer Biology Training Consortium Annual Meeting

Sheraton Sand Key Resort in Clearwater Beach, Florida     October 9 - 11

Friday     Arrivals   
Reception            
Board Meeting          
Dinner  - Keynote Speaker: Tona Gilmer, PhD,                                                                                                                                 Global Director of Biological Sciences & Oncology Translational Research Research, GlaxoSmithKline

Saturday Welcome            
Recruiting Good Postdoctoral Trainees -  Facilitator:  Amato Giaccia, PhD 
Keynote Speaker:  Li-Kuo Su, PhD, Editor, Cancer Cell       
Faculty Presentations:    
Douglas Cress, PhD - Moffitt Cancer Center
Michael Lotze, MD - University of Pittsburgh  
Dihua Yu, MD, PhD - University of Texas/MD Anderson Cancer Center          
Steven A. Akman, MD - Wake Forest University           
Train the Trainer  - Facilitator:  Lynn Matrisian, PhD  
Postdoc Guest Speaker: Cathee Johnson Phillips, MA                                                  E Executive Director, National Postdoc Association
Faculty Workgroups: 
Postdoc Training - Facilitator: Jim Manfredi, PhD                                                   Medical Medical School Curriculum - Facilitator: Michael Lotze, PhD
Diversity Recruitment - Facilitator: Dihua Yu, MD, PhD   
T32 Workshop - Facilitators: Lynn Amende, PhD; Julie Mason, PhD; Shannon Lemrow, PhD;  Jonathan Jonathan Wiest, PhD
Working Lunch - NCI Presentation
Business Meeting - Members only
Free Time         
Dinner   
Poster Session

Sunday 
Keynote Speaker: William S. Dalton, PhD, MD, Director & CEO,                                               H. H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute
Reports   
Faculty Breakout Report – Medical School Curriculum
Faculty Breakout Report – Postdoc Training
Faculty Breakout Report – Diversity Recruitment
Postdoc Report – Overall experience
Closing remarks  
Lunch & Adjourn

ATTENDEES - Faculty

Adrienne Cox, PhD - University of North Carolina
Alan Eastman, PhD - Dartmouth College 
Amato Giaccia, PhD - Stanford University  
Andrei Thomas-Tikhonenko, PhD - University of Pennsylvania  
Ann Roman, PhD - Indiana University  
Anna Riegel, PhD - Georgetown University 
Beverly Delidow, PhD - Marshall University 
Brian Keith, phd - University of Pennsylvania
Caroline Alexander, PhD - University of Wisconsin – Madison 
Channing Der, PhD - University of North Carolina 
Christopher Counter, PhD - Duke University 
Danny  Welch, PhD - University of Alabama at Birmingham 
Dario Altieri, MD University of Massachusetts 
Dawn Eastmond, PhD - City of Hope 
Dennis Watson, PhD - Medical University of South Carolina 
Dihua Yu, MD, PhD - University of Texas 
Don Ayer, PhD - University of Utah 
Douglas Cress, PhD - Moffitt Cancer Center
Douglas Hurst, PhD - University of Alabama at Birmingham
Douglas Spitz, PhD - University of Iowa 
Douglas Thamm, VMD, DACVIM - Colorado State University 
Edmund Lattime, PhD - Cancer Institute of New Jersey
Frank Torti, MD - Wake Forest University  
Geoffrey Greene, PhD - University of Chicago 
Gwendolyn Mahon, PhD - New Jersey Medical School
Harikrishna Nakshatri, BVSc, PhD - Indiana University
Hsing-Jien Kung, PhD - University of California - Davis 
James Broach, PhD - Princeton University 
James Manfredi, PhD - Mount Sinai School of Medicine 
Jesse Martinez, PhD - University of Arizona
Jin Chen, PhD - Vanderbilt University 
Julie Djeu, PhD - University of South Florida
Karin Scarpinato, PhD - Wake Forest University
Kathleen Rundell, PhD - Northwestern University 
Kenneth Wright, PhD - University of South Florida 
Kerry Burnstein, PhD - University of Miami 
Linda Siracusa, PhD - Thomas Jefferson University 
Linda Vona-Davis, PhD - West Virginia University 
Lynn Matrisian, PhD - Vanderbilt University
Maureen Goodenow, PhD - University of Florida
Michael Imperiale, PhD - University of Michigan 
Michael Lotze, MD - University of Pittsburgh 
Richard Baer, PhD - Columbia University 
Robert Pauley, PhD - Wayne State University 
Sean Scully, MD - University of Miami
Steve Akman, MD - Wake Forest University
Steven Triezenberg, PhD - Van Andel Institute 
Sunita Chaudhary, PhD - Cancer Institute of New Jersey 
Susann Brady-Kalnay, PhD - Case Western Reserve University 
Thomas Wiese, phD - Xavier University of Louisiana 
Thresa Turski, Roswell Park Cancer Institute 
Toni Antalis, PhD - University of Maryland 
W. Stratford May, Jr., MD, PhD - University of Florida 
Wade Gibson, PhD - Johns Hopkins University 
Wolf-Detrich Heyer, PhD - University of California - Davis
Yasmin Thanavala, PhD - Roswell Park Cancer Institute
Zoltan Tokes, PhD - University of Southern California

ATTENDEES - Guests

Alexis Bakos, PhD - National Cancer Institute
Cathee Johnson Phillips, MA - National Postdoc Association
Jonathan Wiest, PhD - National Cancer Institute
Julie Mason, PhD - National Cancer Institute  
Li-Kuo Su, PhD - Cancer Cell   
Lynn Amende, PhD - National Cancer Institute
Shannon Lemrow, PhD - National Cancer Institute
Tona Gilmer, PhD - GlaxoSmithKline    
William S. Dalton, PhD, MD - H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center

ATTENDEES - Postdoctoral

Alexandra Surcel - Johns Hopkins University    asurcel1 at jhmi.edu
Allegra Petti - Princeton University    apetti at princeton.edu
Beniot Molinie - Marshall University    molinie at marshall.edu
Brian Pickering - University of Texas/MD Anderson Cancer Center   brian.f.pickering at uth.tmc.edu
Crista Brawley - University of Chicago   cbrawley at uchicago.edu
Dominico Vigil - University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill   dvigil at med.unc.edu
Donita Brady - Duke University   donita.brady at duke.edu
Elizabeth Finger - Stanford University   efinger at stanford.edu
Emily Bosco - University of Cincinnati    emily.bosco at cchmc.org
Evan Gomes - Wake Forest University   egomes at wfubmc.edu
Harpreet Kaur - Case Western Reserve university   hxk262 at case.edu
Hilary Kenny - University of Chicago   hkenny at uchicago.edu
James Lee - Columbia University    jl1480 at columbia.edu
Jason Bodily - Northwestern University   j-bodily at northwestern.edu
Jason Lehman - Indiana University    lehmanj at iupui.edu
Jennifer Gass - University of Iowa    jennifer-nickerson-gass at uiowa.edu
Jianjun Zhao - University of South Florida    jianjun.zhao at moffitt.org
John DaSilva - University of Virginia     jd2zc at Virginia.edu
Justin Cross - University of Pennsylvania    crossjr at mail.med.upenn.edu
Kellye Kirkbride - Vanderbilt University   kellye.kirkbride at vanderbilt.edu
Keytam Awad - University of Florida    ksawad at ufl.edu
Kristen Livesey - University of Pittsburgh    livesey.kristen at medstudent.pitt.edu
Laura Hernandez - University of Cincinnati    hernanll at ucmail.uc.edu
Lauren Wegman - University of Iowa    lauren-wegman at uiowa.edu
Michael Dohn - Vanderbilt University    michael.r.dohn at vanderbilt.edu
Mohan Rao Kaadige - University of Utah    mohan.kaadige at hci.utah.edu
Ravi Singh - Wake Forest University   rsingh at wfubmc.edu 
Rebecca Gray - University of Florida    rgray at ufl.edu
Samantha Morley - Case Western Reserve university    samantha.morley at case.edu
Sherif Morgan - University of Arizona    ssmorgan at email.arizona.edu
Sherry Winter - University of South Florida    sherry.winter at moffitt.org
Tracy Marie Neher - Indiana University    tneher at iupui.edu

REPORTS & PRESENTATIONS

GRANTSMANSHIP by Jesse Martinez

MEDICAL EDUCATION by Doug Spitz

MOFFITT PD RESEARCH PROGRAM by Doug Cress

DIVERSITY by Duihua Yu and Susann Brady-Kalnay