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2022 Pathology Retreat

Our 2022 retreat highlighted exciting recent advances in the field.

Speakers and Topics

Benjamin tenOever, PhD, Professor, Departments of Microbiology and Medicine
Keynote Speaker
"From Your Nose to Your Toes: SARS-CoV-2 Mediated Inflammation and COVID-19”

Adriana Heguy, PhD, Professor, Department of Pathology
"Two Years of SARS-CoV-2 Genomic Surveillance at NYU Langone Health"

Audrey Lasry Sandler, PhD, Aifantis Lab
"Inflammation Remodels the Immune Microenvironment in Acute Myeloid Leukemia”

Timothy Borbet, PhD, Koralov Lab
"Utilizing Mice to Generate Heavy-Chain Only Antibodies for Therapeutic Application”

Shahram Saberi, MD, Gastrointestinal and Hepatic Pathology Fellow
"COVID-19 Patients with GI Manifestations May be Associated with Extensive Microthrombosis in the Small Intestine, a Study from 13 Autopsy Cases”

Sergei B. Koralov, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Pathology
"Using Multimodal scRNA-seq to Compare Immune Responses to SARS-CoV-2 Infection and Vaccines”

Atreyee Basu, MD, PGY-6
"Histopathologic Manifestations of Acute and Chronic Pulmonary Sequelae of COVID-19 Infection of Surgical Lung Specimens in a Tertiary Care Facility of New York City, USA”

David Fenyo, PhD, Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology
"Predicting Endometrial Cancer Subtypes and Molecular Features from Histopathology Images Using Multi-Resolution Deep Learning Models”

Ryan Curtin, Krogsgaard Lab
"Increased role of T-Cell Immunity Against COVID-19 in Protection of Multiple Sclerosis Patients Undergoing B-Cell Depletion Therapy”

George Jour, MD, Clinical Associate Professor, Departments of Pathology and Dermatology
"Optimization of DCNN for Necrosis Quantification in Archival Osteosarcoma”

Thales Y. Papagiannakopoulos, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Pathology
"Characterizing Genetic Subsets of Lung Cancer”

Axel Concepcion, PhD, Feske Lab
"Decoding the Ion Channelome in T-Cells with Functional Genomic Screens”

Alcida Karz, Hernando Lab
"Investigating a Role for Carnosine Dipeptidase 1 in Melanoma Brain Metastasis”

Jue Feng, PhD, Reizis Lab
"The Deletion of 9p21 Tumor Suppressor Locus Causes Myelodysplastic Syndrome Driven by Bone Marrow Microenvironment”

Christopher Y. Park, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Pathology
"Mechanisms of Resistance to Hypomethylating Agents in AML/MDS”

Shruti Naik, PhD, Assistant Professor, Departments of Pathology, Medicine, and Dermatology
"Immune-Epithelial Crosstalk in Tissue Repair and Inflammation”

Neil D. Theise, MD, Professor, Department of Pathology
"Evidence of Body-Wide Continuity of the inteIstitium in Humans: Implications for Pathology”

Carla Nowosad, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology
"The B-Cell Receptor and Beyond: Specialized Functions of the B-Cell Receptor in the Intestine”

Fei Chen, MD, PhD, PGY-5
"Comparison of Fresh Cell Pellets and Cell Blocks for Genomic Profiling of Advanced Cancers in Pleural Effusion Specimens: Promising Preliminary Results from a Validation Study”

Jun Wang, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology
"Novel Mechanisms of SARS-CoV-2 Infection and Immune Pathogenesis”

Florian Krammer, PhD, Professor, Departments of Microbiology and Pathology, Molecular, and Cell Based Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Keynote Speaker
"Antibody Responses to SARS-CoV-2 Infection and Vaccination"

2019 Pathology Retreat

Our sixth annual retreat, held on June 14, 2019, featured a full slate of researchers presenting their recent findings.

Speakers and Topics

Aravinda Chakravarti, PhD, Director, Center for Human Genetics and Genomics
Keynote Speaker
“The Genetic Pathology of Hirschsprung Disease”

Timothy Chan, MD, PhD, Vice Chair, Department of Radiation Oncology, Professor, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Keynote Speaker
“Genetic Foundations of Immunotherapy Response”

Navneet Narula, MD, Professor, Department of Pathology
“Atheroembolic Basis of Peripheral Artery Disease: Mechanistic and Genetic Considerations”

Christopher M. William, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Departments of Pathology and Neurology
“Dissection of the Genetic Basis for Neurodevelopmental Impairment in Down Syndrome Model Mice”

Matija Snuderl, MD, Associate Professor, Department of Pathology
“PURE: Analysis of Cancer Cells Using Dielectrophoretic (DEP) Array Capture and Digital Sorting of Single Cells from FFPE”

Rana Moubarak, PhD, Instructor, Department of Pathology
“The Histone Demethylase PHF8 Epigenetically Regulates TGF Signaling to Promote Melanoma Metastasis”

Sascha Kahlfuss, MD, Postdoctoral Fellow
“Immunodeficiency Due to Mutations in ORAI1 and STIM1”

Odise Cenaj, MD, Assistant Professor
“Molecular Correlates of Dysplasia Subtypes in Sessile Serrated Polyps and Their Relationship to Invasive Adenocarcinoma”

Boris Reizis, PhD, Professor, Departments of Pathology and Medicine
“Extracellular DNA as an Antigen”

George Jour, MD, Clinical Associate Professor, Departments of Pathology and Dermatology
“c-APM/MAPK Dysregulation and Its Impact on Survival Response to Immunotherapy in Advanced Melanomas”

Aswin Natarajan, PhD, Instructor, Department of Pathology
“Molecular Determinants Involved in TCR Proximal Signaling”

Deborah F. DeLair, MD, Associate Professor, Department of Pathology
“Microsatellite Instability Detection Through Next Generation Sequencing”

Sergei B. Koralov, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Pathology
“Dissecting Molecular and Environmental Triggers of CTCL Pathogenesis”

Doug Allison, MD, Resident
“Early Onset Colorectal Adenocarcinomas Are More Likely to Have Poor Prognostic Features: In Support of the New ACS Colorectal Cancer Screening Guidelines”

Andrea Hernandez, DO, Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology
“Programmed Death-Ligand 1 (PD-L1) Immunohistochemistry on Cytology Cell Blocks in Non-Small Cell Lung Carcinoma”

Matthew Witkowski, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow
“The Relapsed B-Cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia Immune Microenvironment”