Events
Center for Cancer Epigenetics Retreat 2026
The 2026 retreat was held at Festival Hill, Round Top Texas, May 8¨C9. It featured five scientific sessions, two keynote speakers and a poster session.
Keynote Address Day 1
Epigenome targeting in ovarian cancer: preclinical models to clinic
Director, Houston Methodist Dr. Mary and Ron Neal Cancer Center
Keynote Address Day 2
Transcriptional condensates in health and disease
Assistant Professor, UT Southwestern
Past Events
Annual Retreat 2025
The retreat was held at Festival Hill, Round Top Texas, May 9-10, 2025, and was organized by Mark Bedford, Ph.D., Xiaodong Cheng, Ph.D., Abhinav Jain, Ph.D., and Margarida Santos, Ph.D.
Keynote Address, Day 1
Nuclear actin polymerization regulates DNA repair and mis-repair in 3D
Jean Gautier, Ph.D.
Professor, Genetics and Development
Columbia University Irving Medical Center
Now chair, Department of Epigenetics and Molecular Carcinogenesis
UT MD Anderson
Keynote Address, Day 2
Translating epigenetic mechanisms of T cell exhaustion into durable tumor immunotherapy
Associate Professor, Immunology
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Annual Retreat 2024
Held Friday, June 28, 2024 at the Cooley Center, the retreat included platform talks, a poster session, keynote lecture, relaxed networking opportunities, a poster session and meals. Trainees selected from submitted abstracts gave short ¡°flash¡± talks.
2024 CCE Retreat Keynote Address
Discovery of an MTA-cooperative PRMT5 inhibitor
Ho Man Chan, Ph.D.
Head of Epigenetics, Research & Development, AstraZeneca
Retreat, Scholars Program and Pilot Project Awards
The Center for Cancer Epigenetics (CCE) Scholar Program has historically provided one year of salary support to outstanding Ph.D. students and/or postdoctoral fellows working in the laboratories of CCE faculty members. Awards were last granted in FY 2021. Recipients of these awards give research updates during the annual Center for Cancer Epigenetics retreat.