Tentative schedule for 26/27 academic year:

October 7th, December 16, February 3rd or 10th, April 7, and June 9th Gala- put it in your calendar, please.

Annual Gala Celebration: Monday, June 1st 2026

1:30 PM         Welcome Remarks

1:45 PM       Keynote lecture: Dr. Michael Yaffe, MIT

Protein Kinase Signaling and DNA Repair Choice in Cancer and Neurodegenerative Diseases

2:45 PM coffee break

3:00 PM Benjamin Harrison (RU)

Regulation of nucleases by FANCI during Fanconi anemia pathway-mediated ICL repair

3:15 PM            Marta Grońska-Pęski (NYU)

Divergent somatic mutation patterns among human cerebellar neuron types

3:30 PM Abe Shim (MSKCC)

Autophagy sequesters cytosolic DNA to inhibit the cGAS-STING innate immune sensing pathway

3:45 PM          Giulia Cova (NYU)

A transcription-coupled condensin II scaffold confines Pol II to active gene units

4:00 PM Fabio Alfieri (NYU)

Single-cell aneuploidy profiling reveals how selection shapes cancer genomes

4:15- 6:00  PM POSTER SESSION AND RECEPTION