Events
Center for Cancer Epigenetics Retreat 2026
The 2026 retreat will be held at Festival Hill, Round Top Texas, May 8–9. Additional details will be available soon.
Keynote Address
Title to be announced
Benjamin Sabari, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Cecil H. and Ida Green Center for Reproductive Biology Sciences and Department of Molecular Biology
The Sabari lab studies how biomolecular condensates organize gene regulation.
Past Events
Annual Retreat 2025
The retreat was held at Festival Hill, Round Top Texas, May 9-10 and was organized by Mark Bedford, Ph.D., Xiaodong Cheng, Ph.D., Abhinav Jain, Ph.D., and Margarida Santos, Ph.D.
Keynote Address, Day 1
Nuclear actin polymerization regulates DNA repair and mis-repair in 3D
Jean Gautier, Ph.D.
Professor, Genetics and Development
Columbia University Irving Medical Center
Now chair, Department of Epigenetics and Molecular Carcinogenesis
MD Anderson
Keynote Address, Day 2
Translating epigenetic mechanisms of T cell exhaustion into durable tumor immunotherapy
Benjamin Youngblood, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Immunology
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Annual Retreat 2024
Held Friday, June 28, 2024 at the Cooley Center, the retreat included platform talks, a poster session, keynote lecture, relaxed networking opportunities, a poster session and meals. Trainees selected from submitted abstracts gave short “flash” talks.
2024 CCE Retreat Keynote Address
Discovery of an MTA-cooperative PRMT5 inhibitor
Ho Man Chan, Ph.D.
Head of Epigenetics, Research & Development, AstraZeneca
Retreat, Scholars Program and Pilot Project Awards
The Center for Cancer Epigenetics (CCE) Scholar Program has historically provided one year of salary support to outstanding Ph.D. students and/or postdoctoral fellows working in the laboratories of CCE faculty members. Awards were last granted in FY 2021. Recipients of these awards give research updates during the annual Center for Cancer Epigenetics retreat.
Seminar Series
Bi-Weekly Meetings 2019–2020
October 11
Sharon Dent Lab Lecture
October 25
Xiaodong Cheng Lab Lecture
November 1
Mark Bedford Lab Lecture
November 15
Joya Chandra Lab Lecture
December 6
Michelle Barton Lab Lecture
December 13
Kapil Bhalla Lab Lecture
January 10
Georgios Karras Lab Lecture
February 7
Guocan Wang Lab Lecture
February 14
Giulio Draetta Lecture
March 20
Margarida Santos Lab Lecture
March 27
Jason Huse Lab Lecture
Distinguished Lectures 2019–2020
October 18
Kevin Struhl
November 8
Mitzi I. Kuroda
January 17
Shiv Grewal
January 24
Ming-Ming Zhou
February 21
Kai Ge
March 13
Joseph Costello
April 10
Andrea Mattevi
May 8–9, Retreat
Keynotes: Ben Youngblood & Elisabeth Martinez
Round Top
May 28–29, Abcam meeting: Epigenetic Biomarkers & Therapeutic Vulnerabilities
Organized by X Cheng & MT Bedford