Events
Monthly Meeting Series
PRIME-TR’s Monthly Meeting Series is held the first Thursday of every month at 2:00 p.m. to 3:00 pm (CST) via Zoom. Speakers are subject to change. Link to request to be added to Microbiome Work Group Channel click here
February 4, 2021
Dr. Sherise Ferguson speaking on "Gut Microbiome and Glioma - Questions and Opportunities"
Dr. Nadim Ajami speaking on "Cancer Virome and Virome Analyses at Prime-TR"
March 4, 2021
Dr. Pablo Okhuysen speaking on Human Enteroids as a Model to Study Microbe - Epithelial Cell Interactions
Dr. George Calin speaking in Zeno-microRs and the genomic immunity
April 1, 2021
CosmosID - Manoj Dadlani, Chief Executive Officer and Karlis Graubics, Business Operations Manager
Title: Challenges and Considerations of Microbial Molecular Methods - Advancing Microbiome Standardization
Dr. Neeraj Saini, MBBS, Assistant Professor, Stem Cell Transplantation - Title: Microbiome and metabolomic in CAR-T Therapy
May 6, 2021
Dr. Moran Amit, PhD, Assistant Professor, Head & Neck Surgery Reseach - Title: TBD
Dr. Saman Maleki, MSc, PhD, Assistant Professor, Departments of Oncology, Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, and Medical Biophysics, Western University and Maleki Lab
- Title: TBD
June 3, 2021
Dr. Jennifer McQuade, MD, Assistant Professor, Melanoma Medical Oncology at MD Anderson - Title: TBD
Dr. Justin Gregg, MD, Assistant Professor, Urology at MD Anderson - Topic: Dietary Interventions in Cancer
July 1, 2021
Dr. Christine B. Peterson, PhD, Assistant Professor, Biostatistics at MD Anderson - Topic: Multi-omic data analysis
Dr. Philip L. Lorenz, PhD, Associate Professor, Bioinformatcs & Comp Biology at MD Anderson- Title: TBD
August 5, 2021
Speakers to be announced
Past Events
Inaugural Retreat
December 5, 2019
Keynote Speaker: Katrine Whiteson, Ph.D., University of California, Irvine
2nd Annual "Virtual" Retreat
January 7, 2021
Keynote Speaker: Marcel van den Brink, M.D., Ph.D., Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
EAB Meeting
January 8, 2021
We conducted our first EAB meeting. Along with our Institution Leads, we were fortunate enough to have leaders in their field join us. We would like to extend our thanks and appreciate to the following:
Ami Bhatt, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor, Dept. Medicine – Med/Hematology Dept. Genetics, Stanford University
Curtis Huttenhower, PhD
Professor of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Harvard T.H. Chan, School of Public Health
Marcel van den Brink, MD, PhD
Head, Division of Hematologic Malignancies; Alan N. Houghton Chair, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Wendy S. Garrett, MD, PhD
Irene Heinz Given Professor of Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Department of Molecular Metabolism
Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Katrine Whiteson, PhD
Assistant Professor, Molecular Biology and Biochemistry,
School of Biological Sciences, and Associate Director, UCI Microbiome Initiative, University of California, Irvine
Bullman, Susan, PhD
Assistant Professor, Human Biology Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Jobin, Christian, PhD
Gatorade Trust Professor of Medicine Program Co-leader Cancer Therapeutics and Host Response University of Florida, Department of Medicine
Gary D. Wu, MD
Ferdinand G. Weisbrod Professor in Gastroenterology, Director, Penn Center for Nutritional Science and Medicine, Univeristy of Pennsylvania
We conducted our first EAB meeting. Along with our Institution Leads, we were fortunate enough to have leaders in their field join us. We would like to extend our thanks and appreciate to the following:
Ami Bhatt, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor, Dept. Medicine – Med/Hematology Dept. Genetics, Stanford University
Curtis Huttenhower, PhD
Professor of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Harvard T.H. Chan, School of Public Health
Marcel van den Brink, MD, PhD
Head, Division of Hematologic Malignancies; Alan N. Houghton Chair, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Wendy S. Garrett, MD, PhD
Irene Heinz Given Professor of Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Department of Molecular Metabolism
Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Katrine Whiteson, PhD
Assistant Professor, Molecular Biology and Biochemistry,
School of Biological Sciences, and Associate Director, UCI Microbiome Initiative, University of California, Irvine
Bullman, Susan, PhD
Assistant Professor, Human Biology Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Jobin, Christian, PhD
Gatorade Trust Professor of Medicine Program Co-leader Cancer Therapeutics and Host Response University of Florida, Department of Medicine
Gary D. Wu, MD
Ferdinand G. Weisbrod Professor in Gastroenterology, Directors, Pennin Center for Nutritional Science and Medicine, Univeristy of Pennsylvania
We conducted our first EAB meeting. Along with our Institution Leads, we were fortunate enough to have leaders in their field join us. We would like to extend our thanks and appreciate to the following:
Ami Bhatt, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor, Dept. Medicine – Med/Hematology Dept. Genetics, Stanford University
Curtis Huttenhower, PhD
Professor of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Harvard T.H. Chan, School of Public Health
Marcel van den Brink, MD, PhD
Head, Division of Hematologic Malignancies; Alan N. Houghton Chair, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Wendy S. Garrett, MD, PhD
Irene Heinz Given Professor of Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Department of Molecular Metabolism
Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Katrine Whiteson, PhD
Assistant Professor, Molecular Biology and Biochemistry,
School of Biological Sciences, and Associate Director, UCI Microbiome Initiative, University of California, Irvine
Bullman, Susan, PhD
Assistant Professor, Human Biology Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Jobin, Christian, PhD
Gatorade Trust Professor of Medicine Program Co-leader Cancer Therapeutics and Host Response University of Florida, Department of Medicine
Gary D. Wu,
MD
Ferdinand G. Weisbrod Professor in Gastroenterology, Directors, Pennin Center for Nutritional Science and Medicine, Univeristy of Pennsylvania
We conducted our first EAB meeting. Along with our Institution Leads, we were fortunate enough to have leaders in their field join us. We would like to extend our thanks and appreciate to the following:
Ami Bhatt, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor, Dept. Medicine – Med/Hematology Dept. Genetics, Stanford University
Curtis Huttenhower, PhD
Professor of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Harvard T.H. Chan, School of Public Health
Marcel van den Brink, MD, PhD
Head, Division of Hematologic Malignancies; Alan N. Houghton Chair, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Wendy S. Garrett, MD, PhD
Irene Heinz Given Professor of Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Department of Molecular Metabolism
Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Katrine Whiteson, PhD
Assistant Professor, Molecular Biology and Biochemistry,
School of Biological Sciences, and Associate Director, UCI Microbiome Initiative, University of California, Irvine
Bullman, Susan, PhD
Assistant Professor, Human Biology Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Jobin, Christian, PhD
Gatorade Trust Professor of Medicine Program Co-leader Cancer Therapeutics and Host Response University of Florida, Department of Medicine
Gary D. Wu, MD
Ferdinand G. Weisbrod Professor in Gastroenterology, Directors, Pennin Center for Nutritional Science and Medicine, Univeristy of Pennsylvania