Events

During the academic year, the Oral, Head & Neck Cancer Research Group holds monthly seminars featuring scientists and clinicians from various departments and institutions. The goal is to work collaboratively to translate key findings to novel therapies for this particularly challenging cancer type.
 
Seminars are held one Monday of every academic month, from 4-5 PM alternating between the Parnassus and Mission Bay campuses as well as Zoom. See the seminar schedule below. 
 
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Oral, Head & Neck Cancer Research Group Monthly Seminar Schedule 

Seminars are held one Monday per month from 4-5 PM, unless otherwise noted below.
 
 
Recordings may take several business days to be available.
2025/2026 Seminar Schedule

 

9/29/2025

  • Speaker: Harish Vasudevan, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor in Residence, Departments of Radiology, Oncology and Neurological Surgery at UCSF
  • Talk Title: A GAP in space and time: Functional genomic approaches for neurofibromatosis
2024/25 Seminar Schedule

 

12/9/2024

  • Speaker: Flora (Fatemeh) Momen-Heravi, DDS, PhD, MPH, MS, R. Earl Robinson Distinguished Professor of Periodontology at UCSF
  • Talk Title: Personalized Medicine in Head and Neck Cancer: Insights into the Tumor Microenvironment

4/10/2025

  • Speaker: Christopher McGinnis, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Ansuman Satpathy Lab at Stanford University
  • Talk Title: Metastatic Cancer Immunology at Single-Cell Resolution

4/17/2025

  • Speaker: Murad Mamedov, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Alex Marson Lab at UCSF
  • Talk Title: Tumor Stress Surveillance by Unconventional T Cells: Cancer Target and Pathway Discovery

5/8/2025

  • Speaker: Zachary Steinhart, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Alex Marson Lab at

    UCSF

  • Talk Title: Leveraging Genome-Scale CRISPR Screens to Uncover Therapeutic Targets in Cancer Immunotherapy

 

2023/24 Seminar Schedule

 

11/13/2023

  • Speaker: Darren Dumlao, PhD, Assistant Director of the Quantitative Metabolite Analysis Center at UCSF
  • Talk Title: Quantitative Metabolite Analysis Center (QMAC): Leveraging State-Of-The-Art Mass Spectrometry Techniques to Understand Perturbations in Metabolism
  • Link to Recording -https://ucsf.box.com/s/1oq3i32cqn1bvk4v7p72ulxaxdn4lo56

12/18/2023

1/29/2024

2/12/2024

  • Speaker: Luc Morris, MD, MSc, FACS, Physician-Scientist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
  • Talk Title: Immune Equilibrium and Evasion in Head and Neck Cancer

3/11/2024

4/8/2024

  • Speaker: TBD

5/20/2024

  • Speaker: Michael Evans, PhD, Professor in Residence in the UCSF Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging
  • Talk Title: Chemical Strategies to Expand the Therapeutic Window for Targeted Radiotherapies

6/10/2024

 

2021/22 Seminar Schedule

10/08/2021
 

  • Speakers: 
    Alaa Ibrahim, PhD, Postdoc (Sarah Knox Lab), Department of Cell & Tissue Biology, UCSF
    -and-
    Baris Avsaroglu, PhD, Postdoc (Andrei Goga Lab), Department of Cell & Tissue Biology, UCSF
  • Talk Title: Understanding the complex and consequential relationship between nerves and cancer in the tumor microenvironment.
  • Link to Recording - MyAccess Login Required: http://tiny.ucsf.edu/2021OHNRG

11/05/2021

  • Speaker: Evgeny Izumchenko, MS, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, Section of Hematology and Oncology, University of Chicago
  • Talk Title: Integrating Genomic Data for Cancer Biomarker Discovery and Therapy
  • Link to Recording - MyAccess Login Required: http://tiny.ucsf.edu/2021OHNRG

01/21/2022

  • Speaker: Shawn Hervey-Jumper, MD, Associate Professor, Neurological Surgery, UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences
  • Talk Title: Diffuse Gliomas Remodeling of Neural Circuits in the Human Brain
  • Link to Recording - MyAccess Login Required: to follow

02/18/2022

  • Speaker: Sidharth Venkata Puram, MD, PhD, FACS, Assistant Professor, Division of Head and Neck Oncologic Surgery, Department of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine
  • Talk Title: Hybrid Epithelial/Mesenchymal States in Head and Neck Cancer
  • Link to Recording - MyAccess Login Required: to follow
  • Speaker: Diana Bell, MD, Clinical Professor, Department of Pathology, City of Hope Cancer Center
  • Talk Title: Controversies and Emerging Entities in Skull Base
  • Link to Recording - MyAccess Login Required: to follow
  • Speaker: Renata Ferrarotto, MD,Associate Professor, Department of Thoracic/Head and Neck Medical Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
  • Talk Title:  Novel Molecular Classification of Adenoid Cystic Carcinoma with Therapeutic Implications
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Archived Seminars