Fall 2020 Student Seminars

The NCI-UMD Partnership for Integrative Cancer Research advisors and PIs nominated their students to give brief 20-minute presentations about their in-progress research during monthly student seminars (held virtually in Fall 2020).


September 18, 2020

Michelle Baird: "Crushing it:  Nuclear envelope integrity during tumor cell confinement"

Michael Yeh: "Microfluidic trap arrays for probing stochastic immune-tumor dynamics"


October 16, 2020

Yihang Wang: "Understanding RNA-small molecule interactions with chemical biology and AI augmented-molecular simulations"

Kuoyuan Cheng: "Tissue-specificity in cancer: The role of synthetic lethality"


November 13, 2020

Tsung-Jen Liao: "The enigma of EGFR-GRB2-SOS1 complex: high-affinity of GRB2-SOS1 interactions and the EGFR effects"

Barry Liang: "Shining light on overcoming ABC drug transporter-mediated cancer multidrug resistance"


December 11, 2020

Sanju Sinha: "Integrating drug and genetic screens to identify true drug targets"

Zeyad Emam: "Segmentation for electron microscopy:  How experts can complement machine learning solutions"