The Masonic Cancer Center's Shared Resources hosted the 10th annual Spring Poster Session and Symposium May 14, 2009 in the Masonic Cancer Research Building. Students, staff, postdocs, and principal investigators were invited to present a poster describing research supported by one or more Shared Resources.

Oral Presentations

Three researchers were chosen to give oral presentations of their research:

• Cindy Blair, Ross Lab, "Obesity at different times of life and the risk of adult myeloid leukemia"
• Andrea Daniel, Lange Lab, "Progesterone Receptor (PR) Silent Signaling: Kinases Mediate Ligand-Independent Derepression of Sumoylated PRs in Breast Cancer Cells"
• Mingyao Wang, Hecht Lab, "Clear Differences in Formaldehyde-DNA Adduct Levels in Leukocytes of smokers and non-smokers"

Poster Awards

This year, posters were judged in by Masonic Cancer Center leaders. The award categories and winners were:

• Best Clinical Research
  Colleen Evans, "Genetic referral patterns for patients with epithelial ovarian cancer in a university-based women's cancer clinic: Missed opportunities for identification of hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer and hereditary breast and ovarian cancer"
• Best New Technique
  Robyn Leary, "In vivo study of the p53 gradient effect"
• Best Use of Shared Resources
  Keli Hippen, "Regulatory T cells: From bench to bedside... and back again"
• Best Translational Research
  Elizabeth Dickson, "Multiple type HPV infections: prevalence and type frequency in 73,000 women"

Best in Program Awards

• Cancer Outcomes and Survivorship
  Shawn Groth, "Determination of the ideal number of lymph nodes to examine to optimize survival in patients with esophageal carcinoma: Data from the Surveillance Epidemiology and End Results Database
• Carcinogenesis and Chemoprevention
  Mingyao Wang, "Mass spectrometric analysis of a cyclic 7,8-butanoguanine adduct of the carcinogen N-nitrosopyrrolidine"
• Genetic Mechanisms in Cancer
  Rachel Bergerson, "An insertional mutagenesis screen for genes that cooperate with Mll-AF9 in leukemogenesis"

• Immunology
  Lynn Heltemes Harris, "Stat5 activation coupled with loss of Ebf1 or Pax5 initiates acute lymphoblastic leukemia
• Prevention and Etiology
  Heather Nelson, "Pathway-based analysis of gene-gene and gene-environment interactions in UV-induced immune suppression and non-melanoma skin cancer"
• Transplant Biology and Therapy
  Xianzheng Zhou, "Stable gene transfer and expression in cord-blood derived CD34+"
• Tumor Biology and Progression
  Chris Valley, "Probing the structure and function of TRAIL-R2: What is the functional significance of two alternately spliced isoforms?"
• Women's Cancer
  Kristopher Lofgren, "Inducible, mammary gland specific expression of breast tumor kinase (Brk/ptk6) results in delayed involution"

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