(April 14, 2009) The Masonic Cancer Center will be well represented at the meeting of the American Association of Cancer Research April 18-22 in Denver. Cancer Center members and staff scheduled to give oral or poster presentations are listed below.

If you or someone from your laboratory is scheduled to give an oral or poster presentation at the meeting, please e-mail Sandi Sherman, sherm019@umn.edu, with your name, title and/or lab affiliation, your presentation title, type of presentation (oral or poster) and the session to which you will be presenting. Names and presentation titles will be published on this page and in Update, the weekly e-newsletter for members and staff.

Oral Presentations

• Kristin Anderson, Ph.D., "Pancreatic cancer risk: associations with meat-derived carcinogen intake" (See related news release)
• Jose Gomez Garcia, Polunovsky lab: "Ras-induced autophagic self-destruction of immortalized human cells: A third innate defense against cancer"

Poster Presentations

• Kristin E. Anderson, Ph.D.: "Allergy history and incident cancer risk: The Iowa Women's Health Study"
• Ann M. Bode, Ph.D., "The transient receptor potential type vanilloid 1 suppresses skin carcinogenesis"
• Steven Carmella, Hecht Lab : "Effects of smoking cessation on eight urinary tobacco carcinogen and toxicant biomarkers"
• Nancy Castro, Lange lab, "Breast Tumor Kinase (Brk/PTK6) is a novel effector of MET receptor signaling in normal and neoplastic contexts"
• Yong-Yeaon Cho, Bode/Dong labs, "Cdk3-mediated c-Jun phosphorylation at Ser63 and Ser73 enhances cell transformation"
• Kelvin Choi, M.P.H.: "Prevalence and correlates of indoor tanning among men and women in the United States"
• Arkadiusz Z. Dudek, M.D., Ph.D., "Phase I study of gemcitabine plus bortezomib in elderly patients with solid tumors" This poster was designated a "Highly Rated Poster Presentations" (top 3-4 percent) in the online Proceedings of the AACR.
• Marna E. Ericson, Ph.D., "Second harmonic imaging (SHG) of collagen fibrils at the tumor/stromal interface: an optical biomarker that reflects tumor growth or regression and can predict efficacy of chemotherapy"
• Maki Inoue, Flood lab: "Dietary supplement use among elderly cancer survivors: The Iowa Women's Health Study"
• Nam Joo Kang, Bode/Dong lab, "Caffeic acid, a phenolic phytochemical in coffee, directly inhibits Fyn kinase activity and UVB-induced COX-2 expression"
• Sung-Young Lee, Bode/Dong lab, "Heterodimeric AP-1 (JunD/c-Fos) is involved in hematopoiesis in synergy with BMP-4 during vertebrate development.
• Kristopher A. Lofgren, Lange lab: "Inducible, mammary gland specific expression of the tyrosine kinase Brk/ptk6 results in delayed involution"
• Jaime Modiano, V.M.D., Ph.D., "Characterization of putative lymphoma-initiating (cancer stem) cells in canine lymphoma"
• Heather H. Nelson, M.P.H., Ph.D., "Smoking history determines the pattern of methylation change in lung tumors." This poster was designated a "Highly Rated Poster Presentations" (top 3-4 percent) in the online Proceedings of the AACR.
• Anna E. Prizment, Anderson lab, "Survival of elderly women with colon cancer in relation to pre-cancer anthropometric characteristics: the Iowa Women's Health Study (IWHS)" Congratulations to Anna Prizment for winning an AACR-WICR Scholar Award for her abstract; Prizment is an epidemiology doctoral student working with Kristin Anderson.
• Angelo Pugliese, Bode/Dong labs, "Modeling of the interaction between EGCG and two separate kinase domains of RSK2"
• Kim Robien, Ph.D.: "WCRF/AICR diet and physical activity guideline adherence associated with quality of life among elderly female cancer survivors." This poster was designated a "Highly Rated Poster Presentations" (top 3-4 percent) in the online Proceedings of the AACR.
• Mariangellys Rodriguez, graduate student, Potter lab, "Possible role of insulin-like growth factor I in breast cancer progression via the CYP1A1 epoxygenase pathway" This poster was designated a "Highly Rated Poster Presentations" (top 3-4 percent) in the online Proceedings of the AACR. She also received a 2009 AACR Minority Scholar Award in Cancer Research to participate in the AACR annual meeting.
• Evgeny A. Rogozin, Bode lab, "Biomarkers and mechanisms of action of Iressa (Gefitinib, ZD1839) on human breast and bladder cancer cells"
• Deepali Sachdev, Ph.D., "Disrupting insulin-like growth factor signaling as a potential cancer therapy" This article is being highlighted at the meeting as the highest-cited 2007 paper from the journal Molecular Cancer Therapeutics.
• Greg M. Sindberg, Mauro/Beitz labs, "Osteoblast-tumor interactions modulate TGFalpha-mediated regulation of MCP-1"
• Irina Stepanov, Ph.D., Hecht lab: "Endogenous formation of the carcinogen N'-nitrosonornicotine in users of oral nicotine replacement therapy products" and "Mitochondrial DNA adducts in the lung and liver of F344 rats chronically treated with 4-(methylnitrosamino)-1-(3-pyridyl)-1-butanone and (S)-4-(methylnitrosamino)-1-(3-pyridyl)-1-butanol"
• Mingyao Wang, "Clear differences in formaldehyde-DNA adducts in leukocytes of smokers and non-smokers" This poster was designated a "Highly Rated Poster Presentations" (top 3-4 percent) in the online Proceedings of the AACR.
• Janel Warmka, postdoctoral fellow in Petersons lab, "Phenotyping human livers for repair of O6-methylguanine and O6-[4-oxo-4-(3-pyridyl)butyl]guanine adducts by O6 alkylguanine DNA alkyl-transferaseenesis 6"
• Ke Yao, Bode/Dong labs, "A regulatory mechanism of RSK2 N-terminal kinase activity"
• Jian-Min Yuan , Ph.D., "Urinary levels of tobacco-specific nitrosamine metabolites in relation to lung cancer development in two prospective cohorts of cigarette smokers" (See related news release) This poster was designated a "Highly Rated Poster Presentations" (top 3-4 percent) in the online Proceedings of the AACR.
• Jinhui Zhang, Ph.D., Hormel Institute: "Analysis of global protein expression in murine prostate modulated by second-generation selenium compounds using LC-MS/MS coupled with amine-specific isobaric tagging (iTRAQ), " and "Molecular carcinogenesis of TRAMP model and attenuation by second generation selenium compounds, a proteomics approach"
• Yong Zhang, Lu lab, Hormel Institute: "Prostate cancer chemopreventive efficacy and mechanisms of a novel sulindac derivative"
• Duo Zheng, Dong lab, "The cannabinoid receptors are required for UV-induced inflammation and skin cancer development"
• Tatyana A. Zykova, Bode/Dong lab, "Resveratrol Directly Targets COX-2 to Inhibit Carcinogenesis"