Junior Faculty Committee Presents:
ISEH 2026 Mini Symposium
16 April 2026
Thank you for a successful 2026 Mini Symposium! Congratulations to our short talk winner, Cih-Li (Amy) Hong!
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