Session 1T

Cancer Biology: from Model Systems to Clinical Studies

12:30 PM to 2:15 PM | Moderated by Alan Herr
Add to my favorites Optimal Timing for Post-Operative Radiation Therapy for Loco-Regional Merkel Cell Carcinoma
Presenter
  • Nora A. Alexander, Senior, Public Health-Global Health
Mentors
  • Upendra Parvathaneni, Radiation Oncology
  • Stephanie Schaub, Radiation Oncology
  • Kristina Lachance, Medicine
  • Paul Nghiem, Dermatology, Medicine

Add to my favorites Identifying Genetic Pathway Involved in the Suppression of Elevated Mutation Rates in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Presenter
  • Thao Thanh Tang, Senior, Biochemistry CoMotion Mary Gates Innovation Scholar, Mary Gates Scholar, UW Honors Program
Mentors
  • Alan Herr, Pathology
  • Mitchell Lee, Pathology

Add to my favorites Assessing the Role of Ctf18 in Aiding and Abetting Mutator Polymerases
Presenter
  • Julia Ho Young Joo, Senior, Biochemistry, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental) Mary Gates Scholar, Innovations in Pain Research Scholar, UW Honors Program, Undergraduate Research Conference Travel Awardee, Washington Research Foundation Fellow
Mentor
  • Alan Herr, Pathology

Add to my favorites A Cancer-Causing Variant in the Replicative Helicase Alters DNA Replication Origin Specificity
Presenter
  • Paula Francesca (Paula) Le Van, Junior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental)
Mentors
  • Elizabeth Kwan, Genome Sciences
  • Bonita Brewer, Genome Sciences
  • M.K. Raghuraman, Genome Sciences

Add to my favorites Worming the Way to a Genetically Tractable BRCA1 Model
Presenter
  • Natali Michelle Shumlak, Senior, Biochemistry Mary Gates Scholar
Mentor
  • Rachel Klevit, Biochemistry

Add to my favorites Large-Scale Characterization of Oncogenic Tyrosine Kinase Variants Using a Mammalian Reporter System
Presenter
  • Aquene N. Reid, Senior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental)
Mentors
  • Douglas Fowler, Bioengineering, Genome Sciences
  • Ethan Ahler, Genome Sciences

Add to my favorites Relationship between ARID1A Loss and Protein Synthesis in Urothelial Bladder Cancer Patients
Presenter
  • Rucha Shrikant Deo, Junior, Biology (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental)
Mentor
  • Andrew Hsieh, Genome Sciences, Medicine, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

Add to my favorites Nanoparticle-Mediated Inhibition of Phospholipid Glutathione Peroxidase Pathway to Combat Radio-Resistance in Glioblastoma
Presenter
  • Hailey Loucks, Senior, Biochemistry Mary Gates Scholar
Mentors
  • Miqin Zhang, Materials Science & Engineering
  • Zachary Stephen, Materials Science & Engineering