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PUBLIC LECTURE:
Next Generation Cancer Research:
Long Island Teens on the Front Line of Discovery
SPEAKERS:
Dr. Alea Mills, Associate Professor, CSHL
Nikita Anand, Cold Spring Harbor High School
Norah Liang, Patchogue-Medford High School
Joshua Weiss, Smithtown High School East
DATE:
TIME:
Tuesday, June 8, 2010
7:00pm – 9:00pm
PLACE:
Grace Auditorium, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
1 Bungtown Road
Cold Spring Harbor, NY 11724
DETAILS:
Dr. Alea Mills will lead a discussion about the latest progress in cancer research with three high school
seniors who participated in the Laboratory’s Partners for the Future program. This program provides
students with the opportunity to work shoulder-to-shoulder with scientists on real research projects.
The students worked throughout the school year in CSHL’s biomedical laboratories that are part of
CSHL’s Cancer Center – a National Cancer Institute designated Cancer Center.
Working with some of the leading cancer biologists in the world – including Drs. Greg Hannon, Mickey
Atwal and Alea Mills – these students worked on projects that involved identifying genes that promote
fertility but are also implicated in cancer; working to uncover the mystery of genes that act to suppress
the growth of tumors; and expanding our knowledge of a process that can be used to turn individual
genes on or off – an essential tool in studying a genetic disease like cancer.
Dr. Mills work recently included a cancer research breakthrough. She solved a decades-old mystery
about a gene associated with a childhood brain tumor called neuroblastoma. Her research identified
the precise location and function of Chd5, a gene also associated with lymphoma, leukemia and many
other cancers. More importantly, she uncovered that when this gene isn’t doing its job, the machinery
that normally prevents cancer is shut down. Ultimately, the modulation of CHD5 may provide novel
strategies for tackling cancer. For more information about Dr. Mills, visit:
http://www.cshl.edu/public/SCIENCE/mills.html
For information about CSHL’s Partners for the Future program, please visit:
http://www.cshl.edu/public/partners.html
For information about this lecture and other public programs at CSHL, please visit
http://events.cshl.edu/, email [email protected] or call 516.367.8455.