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.

Email [email protected] if you would like to be added to the OHNRG listserv.

Email [email protected] if you are interested in presenting at an OHNRG monthly seminar.

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.

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

Speaker: Matthew Spitzer, PhD, Associate Professor Department of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery at UCSF
Talk Title: Immune Responses and Immunotherapy in Head and Neck Cancer
Link to Recording -https://ucsf.box.com/s/122bkff5zpuzu4w23bn4peb9gc8xy8k0

1/29/2024

Speaker: Roarke Kamber, PhD, Assistant Professor at UCSF
Talk Title: Systematic Approaches for Investigating Tumor-Macrophage Interactions
Link to Recording -https://ucsf.box.com/s/21jn2239umrf4xki3hhf7k18a0ycekbx

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

Speaker: Jonathan Ostrem, MD, PhD, Assistant Adjunct Professor Department of Medicine at UCSF
Talk Title: Small Molecules Take on Big Challenges: Cancer Chemical Biology
Link to Recording -https://ucsf.box.com/s/exwg5xxq5ytz1jla2drtn6ghrjazdqxc

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

Speaker: Thomas Ow, MD, Head and Neck Surgeon and Translational Researcher
Talk Title: Searching for Vulnerabilities in Head and Neck Squamous Cell Cancer
Link to Recording - https://ucsf.box.com/s/e9twreljvvn5svje8kh93q24316xifxs

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

03/18/2022

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

04/15/2022

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

Link to Recording - MyAccess Login Required: to follow

05/13/2022

Speaker:
Talk Title:
Link to Recording - MyAccess Login Required: to follow

Archived Seminars

2020/21 Seminar Schedule

09/11/2020

Speaker: J. Silvio Gutkind, PhD, Distinguished Professor, Department of Pharmacology, University of California San Diego
Talk Title: HNSCC in the New Era of Targeted and Immunotherapies
Link to Recording - MyAccess Login Required: http://tiny.ucsf.edu/OHNRGSeminars2020

10/16/2020

Speaker: Nisha D'Silva, BDS, MSD, PhD, Donald A Kerr Endowed Collegiate Professor of Oral Pathology, Professor of Dentistry, School of Dentistry and Professor of Pathology, University of Michigan
Talk Title: Oral Cancer: Corrupting the Microenvironment
10/16 Seminar not recorded

11/13/2020

Speaker: Mary Helen Barcellos-Hoff, PhD, Professor, Radiation Oncology, University of California San Francisco
Talk Title: TGFbeta Updates: Radiotherapy, Chemotherapy, and Immunotherapy: Oh My!
Link to Recording - MyAccess Login Required: http://tiny.ucsf.edu/OHNRGSeminars2020

12/11/2020

Speaker: Michelle Arkin, PhD, Professor, Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California San Francisco
Talk Title: Cancer Chemical Biology and Drug Discovery at the Small Molecule Discovery Center at UCSF
Link to Seminar: Distributed via OHNRG listserv
Link to Recording - MyAccess Login Required: http://tiny.ucsf.edu/OHNRGSeminars2020

01/22/2021

Speaker: Nan Jin, PhD, Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, University of California San Francisco
Talk Title: Therapeutic implications of non-canonical PIK3CA mutations in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC)
Link to Seminar: Distributed via OHNRG listserv
Link to Recording - MyAccess Login Required: http://tiny.ucsf.edu/2021OHNRG

02/12/2021

Speaker: Mekhail Anwar, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, Radiation Oncology, University of California San Francisco
Talk Title: Personalized Cancer Therapy Through In Vivo Sensing
Link to Seminar: Distributed via OHNRG listserv
Link to Recording - MyAccess Login Required: http://tiny.ucsf.edu/2021OHNRG

03/26/2021

postponed until further notice

Speaker: Aaron Tward, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, University of California San Francisco - 2019 OHNRG Team Award recipient (along with Jeff Bush, PhD)
Talk Title: Mechanisms of EphA2 Tumor Suppressor Activity in Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma
This seminar has been postponed until further notice

04/09/2021

Speaker: Matthew Spitzer, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, University of California San Francisco
Talk Title: TBD
Link to Seminar: Distributed via OHNRG listserv
4/9 Seminar not recorded

05/21/2021

Speaker: Rosemary Akhurst, PhD, Professor, HDFCCC and Department of Anatomy, University of California San Francisco
Talk Title: Targeting TGFB signaling for oncology in mouse models – and translation to human
Link to Seminar: Distributed via OHNRG listserv
Link to Recording - MyAccess Login Required: http://tiny.ucsf.edu/2021OHNRG

2019/20 Seminar Schedule

09/06/2019 1:30-2:30pm
Parnassus
S-214

Speaker: Joseph Orenthung Humtsoe, PhD, Assistant Researcher, Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery
Talk Title: Newly identified members of FGF-receptor 1 splice variant crosstalk with AXL/AKT axis in adenoid cystic carcinoma
Link to Seminar: http://tiny.ucsf.edu/Fall2019OHNRG

10/11/2019
Parnassus
N-721

Speaker: Baris Avsaroglu, PhD, Postdoc, Department of Cell & Tissue Biology
Talk Title: Mapping in vitro cellular interactions between cancer and normal cells via synthetic Notch ligand/receptor pairs
Link to Seminar: http://tiny.ucsf.edu/Fall2019OHNRG

11/08/2019
Parnassus
S-214

Speaker: Zhibin Cui, PhD, Postdoc, Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery
Talk Title: HNSCC-associated caspase-8 mutations mediate resistance to apoptosis and up-regulation of immunosuppressive cytokines
Link to Seminar: http://tiny.ucsf.edu/Fall2019OHNRG

12/06/2019 1:30-2:30pm
Parnassus
S-214

Speaker: Rushika Perera, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Anatomy
Talk Title: Autophagy Facilitates Immune Evasion of Pancreatic Cancer by Downregulating MHC-I
Link to Seminar: http://tiny.ucsf.edu/Fall2019OHNRG

01/24/2020
Mission Bay
RH-102

Speaker: Vicente Planells-Palop, PhD, Postdoc, Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery
Talk Title: Minimal mutational determinants of human squamous cell carcinoma
Link to Seminar: http://tiny.ucsf.edu/Win2020OHNRG

02/14/2020

-NO SEMINAR-

03/13/2020

-NO SEMINAR-

04/10/2020
via Zoom

Speaker: Mary Helen Barcellos-Hoff, PhD - 2019 OHNRG Team Award recipient (along with Alan Ashworth, PhD)
Talk Title: Functional Analysis to Stratify Human Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma (HNSCC) Patients for PARP Inhibition
Link to Seminar: Link distributed via OHNRG listserv

05/08/2020
via Zoom

Speakers: Alain Algazi, MD, and Matthew Spitzer, PhD - 2019 OHNRG Team Award recipients
Talk Title: Determining the Characteristics of Immunotherapy-Responsive HNSCC Tumors by High-Dimensional Imaging of Archival Specimens
Link to Seminar: Link distributed via OHNRG listserv

2018/19 Seminar Schedule

09/21/2018
Mission Bay
RH-102

Speaker: ALAIN ALGAZI, MD, Associate Professor in Medicine
Talk Title: To Be Determined
Link to Seminar: not recorded

10/12/2018
Mission Bay
RH-102

Speaker: SIMON CHIOSEA, MD, Department of Pathology, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
Talk Title: "8th Edition of AJCC Staging Manual and Early Oral Tongue Cancer: Depth of Invasion and Margins"
Link to Seminar: https://tiny.ucsf.edu/Fall2018OHNRG

11/09/2018
Mission Bay
HD-160

Speaker: MARY HELEN BARCELLOS-HOFF, PhD , Professor in Radiation Oncology
Talk Title: "Mechanisms Endorsing Alternative End Joining for DNA Repair"
Link to Seminar: https://tiny.ucsf.edu/Fall2018OHNRG

12/14/2018
Parnassus
S-214

Speaker: DIANE BARBER, PhD, Professor & Chair in Cell & Tissue Biology
Talk Title: "Dysregulated pH Dynamics: A perfect Storm for Cancer Progression "
Link to Seminar: https://tiny.ucsf.edu/Fall2018OHNRG

01/11/2019
Mission Bay
HD-160

Speaker: HYUNSEOK "HYU" KANG, MD, Associate Professor in Medicine
Talk Title: "Research in progress for squamous cell carcinoma of head and neck (SCCHN) and adenoid cystic carcinoma (ACC)"
Link to Seminar: http://tiny.ucsf.edu/Winter2019OHNRG

02/15/2019

No Seminar

03/08/2019
Mission Bay
HD-160

Speaker: SARAH ARRON, MD, PhD, Associate Professor in Dermatology
Talk Title: "Cutaneous Squamous Cell Carcinoma: Bench to Bedside"
Link to Seminar: http://tiny.ucsf.edu/Winter2019OHNRG

04/12/2019
Parnassus
S-214

Speaker: KYLE JONES, DDS, PhD, Assistant Professor in Orofacial Sciences
Talk Title: "Characterization of Oral Epithelial Progenitor Cells Provides New Insights Into Head and Neck Cancer Stem Cell Biology"
Link to Seminar: http://tiny.ucsf.edu/Spring2019OHNRG

05/10/2019
Parnassus
S-214

Speaker: YVONNE KAPILA, DDS, PhD, Professor in Orofacial Sciences
Talk Title: "Interactions and mechanisms between oral microbes and oral carcinogenesis"
Link to Seminar: http://tiny.ucsf.edu/Spring2019OHNRG

2017/18 Seminar Schedule

09/22/2017
Mission Bay
GEN-N114

Neil Bhola Targeting Bromodomains to Overcome Therapeutic Resistance in Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma

10/27/2017
Parnassus

No Seminar

11/17/2017
Mission Bay
GEN-N114

Andrew Beardsley BAIAP2L1/YAP Interaction Senses Integrin Disengagement and Modulates Response to EGFR Inhibition In NSCLC

12/15/2017
Parnassus
N-225

Aaron Tward Modelling squamos cell carcinoma in primary human tissue

01/26/2018
Mission Bay
RH-102

Arun Wiita Enhancing tumor antigen-specific immunotherapy through new target discovery and forced target expression

02/23/2018
Parnassus
N-217

Robert Flavell Applying PSMA and new PET imaging approaches in head and neck cancers

03/23/2018
Mission Bay
RH-102

Davide Ruggero Translating the cancer genome one codon at a time and its therapeutic implications

04/27/2018
Parnassus
S-214

JEREMY CHANG Insights into oncogene addiction using time lapse microscopy

05/25/2018
Mission Bay
HD-160

Danielle Swaney (due to technical difficulties this seminar was not recorded) Quantitative multidimensional characterization of protein-protein interactions in head and neck cancer

06/22/2018
Parnassus

No Seminar

2016/17 Seminar Schedule (inaugural year)

09/23/2016
Mission Bay

Seminar not Recorded

Alain Algazi

Dan Johnson

Clinical immuno-oncology and options for translation in head and neck cancer at UCSF

Biomarkers and Chemoprevention for Head and Neck Cancer

10/28/2016
Parnassus

Seminar not Recorded

Yvonne Kapila

Andrei Goga

Biomedical Applications of Bacteriocins

Targeting the MYC Pathway in Head & Neck and Other Cancers

12/16/2016
Mission Bay

Seminar not Recorded

Mary Helen Barcellos-Hoff

Aaron Tward

Subjugation of TGFβ signaling by HPV sensitizes H&N cancers to DNA damage

Tumor progression in HNSCC

03/10/2017
Mission Bay
Link to joint recording

Sue S. Yom

Jennifer Grandis

Radiation for Head and Neck Cancer: Clinical Landscape and Research Opportunities

How to Get and Renew a Head and Neck SPORE

05/26/2017
Mission Bay
Link to joint recording

Sarah Knox

Andrei Goga

Understanding the Impact of Nerves on Head and Neck Cancer

Targeting the MYC Pathway in Oral, Head, and Neck Cancers

06/23/2017
Parnassus
Link to joint recording

Matthew Spitzer

Rosemary Akhurst

Quantitatively Modeling Immune Responses to Cancer

Modeling checkpoint blockade using heterogeneous chemically induced carcinoma

Oral, Head & Neck Cancer Research Group

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.

Email [email protected] if you would like to be added to the OHNRG listserv.

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.

Archived Seminars

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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.

Email [email protected] if you would like to be added to the OHNRG listserv.

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.

Archived Seminars

UCSF News

Science Clears the Way to Treating the Trickiest Bladder Cancers

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