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The Minnesota Craniofacial Research Training (MinnCResT) Program aims to train the next generation of independent investigators exploring questions in craniofacial, oral health and dental research. Supported by a major grant from the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR), the MinnCResT Program scientific and career development programming and full fellowship support for graduate students, DDS/PhD students, and postdoctoral fellows wishing to begin, continue, or expand their research careers. The MinnCResT Program is putting into practice the new National Institutes of Health (NIH) road map by forming cross-disciplinary teams of trainees and mentors from such fields as biology, neuroscience, microbiology, genetics, immunology, engineering, psychology, dentistry, medicine, and other disciplines that contribute to its research training mission. The MinnCResT Program seeks the best and the brightest to contribute to cutting-edge craniofacial, dental and oral health research. MinnCResT Program fellows can look forward to multiple years of support, favorable employment prospects, and fascinating scientific challenges in a community that fosters interdisciplinary research.
Head and Neck Cancer:
The Bridge from Mechanisms to TherapyMinnCResT Summer Symposium
Wednesday, June 29, 2011
University of Minnesota
5-125 Moos TowerRegister now at mncrest@umn.edu!
Event is free and lunch provided!
RSVP required for lunch. Agenda
9:00am Welcome by Mark Herzberg, DDS, PhD, MinnCResT Program 9:10am Introduction to Head and Neck Cancer
Bevan Yueh, MD, MPH, Department of Otolaryngology Mechanism & Etiology
9:30am “Preclinical Models for Human Papilloma Viruses-Associated Head and Neck Cancer”
Paul F. Lambert, PhD, University of Wisconsin 10:15am Break 10:30am “Determining the Mechanism of Immune-Related Clearance and Developing New Therapies for HPV-Related Cancers”
John Lee, MD, Sanford Medical
11:15am “mTOR and Head and Neck Cancer: Translating Signaling Circuitries into Targeted Cancer Therapies”
J. Silvio Gutkind, PhD, NIDCR Noon Lunch 1:15pm “Autophagy in Cell Growth, Survival & Cancer”
Do-Hyung Kim, PhD, Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology & Biophysics Epidemiology and Environmental Factors
1:45pm “Tobacco as a Risk Factor for Head and Neck Cancer”
Samir Khariwala, MD, Department of Otolaryngology
2:15pm “Cancer Prevention: Future Directions in Tobacco Control”
Dorothy Hatsukami, PhD, Department of Psychiatry 2:45pm Break Treatment, Prevention, and New Approaches
3:00pm “Importance of Prevention and Protection”
Frank Ondrey, MD, PhD, Department of Otolaryngology 3:30pm “Using Public Health Policy to Reduce Risk Factors”
Jean Forster, PhD, MPH, School of Public Health 4:00pm Closing comments by sponsors 4:15pm Adjourn
Poster session
Sponsored by the University of Minnesota’s:
Minnesota Craniofacial Research Training Program
Masonic Cancer Center
Featured Research Craniofacial Development in Zebrafish: what genes control development? MinnCResT Postdoctoral Fellow Mara Robu uses zebrafish as a model system to study craniofacial development. A useful technique is staining of craniofacial structures in 5-day old zebrafish larvae with Alcian blue. By knocking down expression of Wnt5 gene with a targeted morpholino (MO), the extension of craniofacial structures along the anterior-posterior axis is disrupted, as compared to the control (C). 
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