Junior Faculty Committee Presents:
ISEH 2026 Mini Symposium
Thursday, 16 April 15:00-18:00 US CT - View in your time zone here.
The third annual virtual Mini Symposium organized by the Junior Faculty Committee will take place on 16 April. Join us to view keynote presentations and short talks by selected abstract submitters.
15:00 - Welcome & Introduction
15:05 - Session 1: HuMonICs: Using HUman bone Marrow organoids to probe niche influences on Immunotherapies against Cancer
Bethan Psaila, MBBS, PhD MRC, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford, UK
15:35 – Session 2: Short talks selected from submitted abstracts
Mark Hartmann, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Germany
- “Beyond the Maturation Block: Oncofetal Reprogramming and Stem Cell Plasticity in pediatric leukemia”
Friederike Herbst, University of Pennsylvania, USA
- “A base-edited CD45 CAR-T/CD34⁺ tandem cell therapy platform enabling universal targeting of hematologic malignancies”
Agata Szade, Jagiellonian University, Poland
- “Recombinant G-CSF induces aberrant c-kit re-expression in mature neutrophils”
16:11 - Session 3: Microenvironmental Regulation of Myeloid Malignancies
Simón Méndez-Ferrer, PhD, University of Cambridge, UK
16:41 – 5 Minute Break
16:46 – Session 4: Short talks selected from submitted abstracts
Cih-Li (Amy) Hong, University of Rochester Medical Center, USA
- “IL-10 dependent spatial regulation of hematopoietic stem cell activation and fitness via interactions with neighboring macrophages”
Virginia Camacho, Boston Children’s Hospital, USA
- “Tet2 age associated mutations impair megakaryopoiesis and promote thrombosis”
Megan Bywater, QIMR Berghofer, Australia
- “Single cell long read genotyping of transcripts reveals the functional consequences of mutational complexity in MPN and post-MPN AML”
17:22 – Session 5: Metabolic Regulation of Normal and Disordered Hematopoiesis
Jian Xu, PhD, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, USA
17:52 – Closing Remarks