Conference Schedule
| Day 1 – July 28 | Day 2 – July 29 | Day 3 – July 30 | Day 4 – July 31 | |
| 9:00 – 9:45am | Keynote 1 | Keynote 2 | Keynote 3 | Presidential Award |
| 9:45 – 10:15am | Plenary 1 | Plenary 3 | Plenary 5 | Young Investigator’s Award |
| 10:15 – 10:45am | Plenary 2 | Plenary 4 | Plenary 6 | |
| 10:45 – 11:00am | BREAK | BREAK | BREAK | BREAK |
| 11:10 – 12:40pm | Dialogue with NIH | Session 11-15 | Session 26-30 | Election Results |
| Travel/Poster Awards | ||||
| Meeting Remarks |
12:40 – 2:00pm – Lunch
| 2:00 – 3:30pm | Session 1-5 | Session 16-20 | Session 31-35 | |
| 3:30 – 4:00pm | BREAK | BREAK | BREAK | |
| 4:00 – 5:30pm | Session 6-10 | Session 21-25 | Session 36-40 | |
| 5:30 – 7:00pm | Poster 1 | Poster 2 | ||
| 7:00 – 9:00pm | Dinner on your own | Banquet | Dinner on your own |
The 18th SCBA Biennial Meeting Program, Boston, July 27-31, 2022
July 27
3:00 – 7:00 pm Arrival and registration (AC Hotel, Medford, MA)
5:00 – 7:00 pm Social time with snacks & drinks (AC Hotel, Medford, MA)
July 28
7:30 – 8:45 am Breakfast (Joys Cummings Conference Center Lobby)
7:30 – 12:00 noon Registration (Joys Cummings Conference Center Lobby)
8:45 – 9:00 am Welcome (1st FL, Conference Rm)
9:00 – 10:45 am Keynote and Named Lectures (1st FL, Conference Rm)
9:00 – 9:45 am Keynote Lecture Dr. William Kaelin Jr.: The von Hippel-Lindau Tumor Suppressor Gene: Insights into Oxygen Sensing and Cancer
9:45 – 10:15 am KT Jeang Lecture Dr. Edward Chu : PHY906 as a Modulator of Cancer Chemotherapy: Where East Meets West
10:15 – 10:45 am Tsai-Fan Yu Lecture Dr. Pei-Yong Shi: SARS-CoV-2 biology and countermeasure development
10:45 – 11:10 am Coffee Break
11:10 – 12:40 pm Dialogue between NIH Officials & SCBA Community: Concerns and Solutions (1st FL Conf Rm)
Moderator: Prof. Margaret Lewis, Seton Hall University
Speakers: Congress Rep. Judy Chu (Virtual)
Dr. Michael Lauer, NIH Deputy Director for Extramural Research
Prof. Gang Chen, MIT
Mr. Henry S. Tang, Cofounder of Committee of 100
Open dialogues
12:40 – 2:00 pm Lunch (Cafeteria)
Lunch Vendor shows by ABclonal Technology and Vazyme Biotech (1st FL, Conf. Rm)
2:00-3:30 pm Concurrent Workshops and Co-Chairs
1. SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19: Jie Sun & Haitao Hu (1st FL Conf. Rm)
2. Biotech & Single Cell Research: Chenghang Zong & Hongjie Li (2nd FL auditorium)
3. Neuroscience: Long-Jun Wu & Dandan Sun (2nd FL Rm 1)
4. Cancer Biology and Therapies: Wenliang Li & Jindan Yu (2nd FL Rm 2)
5. Metabolism & Lipid: Li Qiang & Meilian Liu (2nd FL Rm 3)
3:30-4:00 pm Coffee Break
4:00 – 5:30 pm: Concurrent Workshops and Co-Chairs
6. SARS-CoV2 & COVID-19: Guangxiang Luo & Qiuhong Wang (1st FL conf. Rm)
7. Cancer Biology & Therapies: Jing Yang & Dihua Yu (2nd FL, Auditorium)
8. Neuroscience: Hong-Shuo Sun & Zhong-Ping Feng (2nd FL, Rm 1)
9. Genome Integrity & DNA Biology: Xiaobo Zhou & Honghuang Lin (2nd FL, Rm 2)
10. Metabolism: Wen-Xing Ding & Ling Yang (2nd FL, Rm 3)
5:30 – 7:00 pm Poster session 1 (Joys Cummings Conference Center Lobby)
7:00 pm Dinner (on your own)
July 29
7:30 – 9:00 am Breakfast (Joys Cummings Conference Center Lobby)
7:30 – 12:00 noon Registration (Joys Cummings Conference Center Lobby)
9:00 – 10:45 am Keynote and Plenary Lectures (1st FL, Conference Rm)
9:00 – 9:45 am Keynote Lecture: Dr. Harvey Alter: Hepatitis C: The end of the beginning and possibly the beginning of the end
9:45 – 10:15 am Plenary Lecture Dr. Louise Chow: Three-dimensional tissue models in vitro and in vivo to identify small molecular inhibitors of human papillomavirus diseases
10:15 – 10:45 am Plenary Lecture Dr. Kun-Liang Guan: Hippo signaling and cancer
10: 45 – 11: 10 am Coffee Break
11: 10 – 12: 40 pm Concurrent Workshops and Co-Chairs
11. HBV and Hepatitis: Haitao Guo & Jianming Hu (1st FL Conf. Rm)
12. Cancer Biology & Therapies: Jinsong Liu & Henry Heng (2nd FL, auditorium)
13. Neuroscience: Wenzhe Ho & Wenhui Hu (2nd FL, Rm 1)
14. Metabolism: Qingchun Tong & Yong Xu (2nd FL, Rm 2)
15. Genome Integrity & DNA Biology: Bing Xia & Zhiyuan Shen (2nd FL, Rm 3)
12:40 – 2:00 pm Lunch (Cafeteria)
2:00 – 3:30 pm Concurrent Workshops and Co-Chairs
16. Tumor viruses & Cancers: Renfeng Li & Pinghui Feng(1st FL, Conf. Rm)
17. Cancer Biology & Therapies: Bin Zheng & Wei-Xing Zong (2nd FL auditorium)
18. Lipid & Adipocytes: Kai Sun & Yu An (2nd FL, Rm 1)
19. Genome Integrity & DNA Biology: Xiaohua Wu & Li Lan (2nd FL, Rm 2)
20. Neuroscience: Hui Zheng & Xiaobo Mao (2nd FL, Rm 3)
3:30 – 4:00 pm Coffee Break
4:00 – 5: 30 pm Concurrent Workshops and Co-Chairs
21. Immunotherapy: Jianzhu Chen & Lishan Su (1st FL Conf. Rm)
22. RNA Biology: Peixuan Guo (2nd FL, auditorium)
23. Cancer Biology & Immunity: Wanjun Chen & Ying Zhang (2nd FL, Rm 1)
24. Genome integrity & DNA biology: Zhongsheng You & Justin Leung (2nd FL, Rm 2)
25. Liver Metabolism: Huiping Zhou & Heather Francis (2nd FL, Rm 3)
5:30 – 7:00 pm Poster session 2 (Joys Cummings Conference Center Lobby )
7:00 – 9:00 pm Banquet
July 30
7:30 – 9:00 am Breakfast (Joys Cummings Conference Center Lobby)
9:00 – 10:45 am Keynote and Plenary Lectures (1st FL, Conference Rm)
9:00 – 9:45 am Keynote Lecture Dr. Virginia M.-Y. Lee: Transmission of misfolded proteins in neurodegenerative disorders: a common mechanism of disease pathogenesis
9:45 – 10:15 am Plenary Lecture Dr. Hao Wu: Inflammasomes at the crossroads of basic science and therapeutic translation
10:15 – 10:45 am Plenary Lecture Dr. Zhigang He: Neural Regeneration after CNS Injury
10: 45 – 11: 10 am Coffee Break
11: 10 – 12: 40 pm Concurrent Workshops and Co-Chairs
26. RNA Biology: Chuan He & Xinshu Grace Xiao (1st FL Conf. Rm)
27. Cancer Biology and Therapies: Xinwei Wang & Chris Lau (2nd FL auditorium)
28. Neuroscience: Zhiping Pang & Ye Zhang (2nd FL, Rm 1)
29. Immunity & Immunotherapy: Shaun Zhang (2nd FL, Rm 2)
30. Metabolism: Liqing Yu & Hongmin Ni (2nd FL, Rm 3)
12:40 – 2:00 pm Lunch (Cafeteria)
2: 00 – 3: 30 pm Concurrent Workshops and Co-Chairs
31. RNA Biology: Rui Zhao & Yongsheng Shi (1st FL Conf. Rm)
32. Immunity & Immunotherapy: Bangyan Stiles & Cynthia Ju (2nd FL auditorium)
33. Cancer Therapies: Li Jia (2nd FL, Rm 1)
34. Cancer Biology & Therapies: Wei Zhang & Yi Sheng (2nd FL, Rm 2)
35. Antivirals: Jun Wang & Zhengqiang Wang (2nd FL, Rm 3)
3:30 – 4:00 pm Coffee Break
4:00 – 5: 30 pm Concurrent Workshops and Co-Chairs
36. Pathogens & Infections: Genhong Cheng & Shouwei Ding (1st FL Conf. Rm)
37. Precision Medicine: Hong Chen & Jinjun Shi (2nd FL auditorium)
38. Heart Disease in Model Systems: Zhe Han & Xiaolei Xu (2nd FL, Rm 1)
39. Cancer Biology & Therapies: Qin Yan & Qing Zhang (2nd FL, Rm 2)
40. Drug Development: Shuxing Zhang & Han Liang (2nd FL, Rm 3)
5:30 – 7:00 pm Poster session 3 (Joys Cummings Conference Center Lobby )
7:00 pm Dinner (on your own)
July 31
7:30 – -9:00 am Breakfast
9:00 – 12:30 pm SCBA Awardee Lectures and closing remarks (1st FL, Conference Rm)
9:00 – 9:30 am Presidential Awardee talk Dr. Yang Shi: Epigenetic regulation in immune-oncology
9:30 – 10:00 am Presidential Awardee talk Dr. Yi Zhang: My journey on epigenetics: from basic mechanisms to clinical applications
10:00 – 10:30 am Kenneth Fong Young Investigator Awardee talk. Dr. Xiaochen Bai: Structural basis for the activation of insulin receptor
10:30 – 11:00 am Coffee break
11:00 – 11:30 am Kenneth Fong Young Investigator Awardee talk. Dr. Stanley Qi: Human Genome Engineering Beyond Editing for Therapy
11:30 – 12:30 am Election results, travel/Poster award announcement, and closing remarks
12:30 pm Lunch (Cafeteria)
2:00 pm Departure