Monthly Seminars

April 10, 2025  11:00 AM Eastern (ET) / 8:00 AM Pacific (PT) / 15:00 UTC 

Talk Title: Unveiling Myeloid Cell Diversity in the Brain Cancer Ecosystem


Speaker: Leila Akkar, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor and Junior Group Leader Department of Tumor Biology and Immunology at the Netherlands Cancer Institute (NKI) in Amsterdam

Leader of the Akkari Lab, Netherlands Cancer Institute (NKI) in Amsterdam

Junior Member of the Oncode Institute

May 8, 2025  11:00 AM Eastern (ET) / 8:00 AM Pacific (PT) / 15:00 UTC 

Talk Title: Neutrophils and PMN-MDSC in human Immuno-Oncology

Speaker: Sven Brandau, Ph.D. 

Professor of Tumor Immunology, University Hospital Essen

Group Leader, West German Cancer Center, University Medicine Essen

Chair, Graduate School for Biomedical Sciences (BIOME), University Duisburg-Essen

Chair, UMESCIA Postdoctoral Training Network

June 12, 2025  11:00 AM Eastern (ET) / 8:00 AM Pacific (PT) / 15:00 UTC 

Talk Title: Molecular and spatial control of myeloid cells in cancer 

Speaker: Renato Ostuni, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Tissue Biology, Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Milan

Group Leader, San Raffaele Telethon Institute for Gene Therapy (SR-TIGET), Milan, Italy

Principal Investigator, Epigenetics and Innate Immunity Laboratory

European Research Council (ERC) Grantee – Starting, Consolidator, and Proof-of-Concept Grants

Summer Break - July/August

September 11, 2025  11:00 AM Eastern (ET) / 8:00 AM Pacific (PT) / 15:00 UTC 

Talk Title: TBA

Speaker: Florent Ginhoux, Ph.D.

October 9, 2025  11:00 AM Eastern (ET) / 8:00 AM Pacific (PT) / 15:00 UTC 

Talk Title: TBA

Speaker: TBA

November 13, 2025 11:00 AM Eastern (ET) / 8:00 AM Pacific (PT) / 15:00 UTC

Talk Title: TBA

Speaker: Mikael Pittet, Ph.D.

December 11, 2025  11:00 AM Eastern (ET) / 8:00 AM Pacific (PT) / 15:00 UTC

Talk Title: TBA

Speaker: Andrew A. Lane, MD, PhD

Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Director, Leukemia Program, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Physician-Scientist, Division of Hematologic Malignancies, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Principal Investigator, Lane Laboratory, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute