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Esta Sterneck , National Cancer Institute. Dr. Esta Sterneck received her Ph.D. from the University of Heidelberg following training at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) and the Center for Molecular Biology Heidelberg (ZMBH) in Germany. Her thesis work investigated oncogene cooperation in leukemia cells and revealed their coordinate induction of an essential autocrine growth factor. During her postdoctoral training at the Advanced BioScience Laboratories-Basic Research Program in Frederick, MD, USA, Dr. Sterneck began to study the functions of C/EBP transcription factors through genetically engineered mice. Dr. Sterneck began her independent research with an National Cancer Institute Scholar grant before being recruited as a Principal Investigator to the NCI in 2003. Her laboratory conducts basic research on the molecular biology of breast cancer development and progression with C/EBP transcription factors as pivots for mechanistic studies. Recent investigations involve the contributions of myeloid cell plasticity and tumor-induced myelopoiesis. [READ MORE]

Jihyun Yu, PhD candidate
Graduate School of Medical Science and Engineering
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
Republic of Korea [READ MORE]

Trevor Elliott Frederick, PhD Candidate
Rutgers University
Hoboken, NJ USA [READ MORE]

Trevor Elliott Frederick, PhD Candidate
Rutgers University
Hoboken, NJ USA [READ MORE]

Trevor Elliott Frederick, PhD Candidate
Rutgers University
Hoboken, NJ USA [READ MORE]

Panagiota Filippou, PhD
Senior Lecturer in Biomedical Sciences,
School of Health & Life Sciences,
Teesside University, United Kingdom [READ MORE]

Robert A. Saxton, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Immunology and Molecular Medicine, University of California, Berkeley , Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, Department of Chemistry , Berkeley, USA Dr. Saxton is an Assistant Professor of Immunology and Molecular Medicine at the University of California, Berkeley. He received his BA in [READ MORE]

Professor Gabrielle Belz, Chair of Immunology, Frazer Institute, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia Professor Gabrielle Belz trained in veterinary medicine and surgery. She has made major contributions to the field of immunology (>220 papers) for which she was awarded a Doctor of Veterinary Science and has received the Gottschalk Medal [READ MORE]

Miriam Merad Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, United States Miriam Merad, MD PhD, has made many discoveries that have transformed our understanding of how the myeloid compartment of the immune system contributes to health and disease. These insights cover the gamut of myeloid biology, from revealing [READ MORE]

Fotis Karagiannis, PhD, Postdoctoral Researcher, University Hospital Bonn, Germany Fotis Karagiannis, PhD Postdoctoral Researcher University Hospital Bonn, Germany I am a Postdoctoral researcher in the lab of Dr. Christoph Wilhelm at the University Hospital of Bonn, Germany. I received my PhD from the University of Patras in Greece, where I [READ MORE]