Center retreats are held on an approximately annual basis. These retreats
allow Center members to gather and discuss exciting research and future goals
for the CRED. Each Research Focus Area and Facility Core as well as the COEP make
presentations followed by a general discussion by members of Center issues
(e.g., resource allocation, realignment of cores and/or members within cores,
criteria for membership, etc.).
Our next Center retreat is Friday, August 24 2007. It will be held at The International Festival Institute at Round Top. Please feel free to contact the Center Administrator Sydni McGahan at smcgahan@mdanderson.org or at 512-237-9444 for more information.
Center Retreat Agenda
Friday, August 24, 2007
The International Festival Institute at Round Top
Edythe Bates Chapel
8:30 |
Continental Breakfast |
9:00 |
John DiGiovanni, Ph.D. – Overview and Center Progress |
9:30 - 10:30 |
Review of the Research Focus Areas (10 min. presentation/5 min. discussion) |
9:30 |
Research Focus Area 1: Environmental & Molecular Epidemiology; Melissa Bondy, Ph.D. |
9:45 |
Research Focus Area 2: Mechanisms of Environmental Carcinogenesis; Rodney Nairn, Ph.D. |
10:00 |
Research Focus Area 3: Diet, Energy Balance & Environmental Disease Risk; Sue Fischer, Ph.D. |
10:15 |
Research Focus Area 4: Genetics & Epigenetics of Early Life Exposures; Cheryl Walker, Ph.D. |
10:30 |
Break |
10:45 |
Pilot Project Program Overview - Mike MacLeod, Ph.D. |
11:00 - 12:00 |
Review of Pilot Project Awards from 2004 (10 min. presentation/5 mins. discussion) |
11:00 |
Identifying Non-Histone Lysine Methylated Proteins |
11:15 |
The Effect of Mitochondrial Uncoupling on Skin Tumorigenesis: Development of Tissue Targeted Transgenic Mice Expressing UCP1 and UCP3 in Skin |
11:30 |
a-TEA & Celecoxib in Skin Cancer Prevention |
11:45 |
Identification of Mouse Skin Proteins and Establishment of a Mouse Skin Proteomics Database |
12:00 |
Pilot Project Program Discussions |
12:20 |
Lunch - Menke House, Dining Hall |
1:15 - 3:00 |
Review of the Facility Cores |
1:15 |
Facility Core 1: Molecular Biology -- J.-J. Shen, Ph.D. |
1:35 |
Facility Core 2: Analytical Instrumentation -- Maria Person, Ph.D. |
1:55 |
Facility Core 3: Histology & Tissue Processing -- Irma Gimenez-Conti, DDS, Ph.D. |
2:15 |
Facility Core 4: Cell & Tissue Analysis -- Ellen Richie, Ph.D. |
2:35 |
Facility Core 5: Integrative Health Sciences -- Sara Strom, Ph.D. |
3:00 |
Facility Core Discussions |
3:30 |
Break |
3:45 | Career Development Program Overview - Stephen Hursting, Ph.D. |
4:05 |
Review of COEC - Robin Fuchs-Young, Ph.D. |
