The Jackson Laboratory is a National Cancer Institute-designated Cancer Center that provides education as well as resource and service initiatives that support cancer research worldwide. As part of our education initiative, JAX offers two signature cancer courses annually: "Cancer Short Course on Experimental Models of Human Cancer" and "Workshop on Techniques in Modeling Human Cancer in Mice."
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The Jackson Laboratory (JAX) is a National Cancer Institute designated cancer center that provides education as well as resource and service initiatives that support cancer research worldwide.
As part of our education initiative, JAX offers two signature cancer courses:
The Annual Cancer Short Course on Experimental Models of Human Cancer provides a broad survey of cancer research and experimental modeling from systems and computational genetics, to the tumor microenvironment and tumor progression, to inflammation and immunotherapy. Unlike a semester-long graduate course or an academic seminar series spread across a full year or more, this course delivers a large amount of material into an intensive training period. The program is 70% seminar-based and 30% workshop-based, including computational workshops. Participants interact directly with faculty, JAX Cancer Center scientists, patient advocates and medical oncologists to gain broad exposure and knowledge as it relates to human cancer.
The Workshop on Techniques in Modeling Human Cancer in Mice provides training in the use of genetically defined laboratory mice as tools for asking questions about gene function and the role of genetics in the biology of cancer. The majority of this workshop is dedicated to hands-on laboratory sessions covering cancer model manipulations and surgical techniques that are broadly applicable to many cancer types such as brain, breast, colon, lung, leukemia/lymphoma and prostate.
Professor
Assistant Professor of Pharmacology & Cancer Biology
Associate Professor
Assistant Professor
Senior Scientist
Assistant Professor
Professor of Dermatology and Pathology
Associate Professor
Professor, Knowlton Family Chair
Professor
Robert Rock Belliveau, M.D. Endowed Professor of Pathology
Associate Director, Courses & Conferences | She/Her
Professor of Medicine
Chief Scientist, Cancer Immunology
Chief, Laboratory of Systems Biology, Chief, Lymphocyte Biology Section
Research Scientist
Andrew Werk Cook Professor of Radiation Oncology; Director, Steele Laboratory
Distinguished Professor of Pharmacology, Ben and Wands Hildyard Chair for Mitochondrial and Metabolic Diseases, American Cancer Society Research Professor
Professor
Associate Professor
Skirball Institute, Helen L. and Martin S. Kimmell Professor of Molecular Immunology, Department of Pathology, Professor, Department of Microbiology
Professor, President Emeritus and Honorary Fellow
Professor of Pediatrics
Director, Research Program Development
Associate Professor
Professor of Pediatrics
Senior Staff Scientist, Professor
Scientific Director & Emeritus Professor
Vice President, Cancer Immunology
Associate Professor of Radiation Oncology
Director, Gale and Ira Drukier Institute for Children’s Health
Associate Professor
Professor
Andrew M. and Jane M. Bursky Distinguished Professor of Pathology and Immunology
Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Professor
Professor, Internal Medicine
Director of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Cancer Center and Professor
Assistant Professor
Professor and Associate Director of Computational Biology, The Florine Deschenes Roux Chair for Genomics and Computational Biology
Registration Fee: $1300; Optional Shared Lodging Fee: $450
Registration Fee: $1300; Optional Shared Lodging Fee: $450
Standard Registration Fee: $400; Scholarship Applicants: $25; Trainee Registration:$250
Registration fee: $200
Participants are responsible for arranging their lodging.
Subsidized, dormitory-style, shared lodging will be made available to approximately forty attendees on a first-come, first-serve basis at our Highseas Conference Center.
Special block rates at local hotels will also be provided.
Air
Bar Harbor is serviced by two airports:
Hancock County/Bar Harbor Airport (BHB) – 20 minutes away
Bangor International Airport (BGR) – 1hr 15 minutes away
Public transportation is not available from local airports. Please visit the Bar Harbor and Bangor airport services webpages for information on shuttles to and from Mount Desert Island. Rideshare options like Uber or Lyft are not commonly available.
Ground
Bar Harbor is approximately 5 hours by car from the greater Boston area. Rental cars are available from Hertz at either nearby airport. Additionally, there is a free Island Explorer bus system which can be used around the island and the national park.
Additional Area Information:
Bar Harbor Chamber of Commerce
Acadia National Park
Professor, Director, JAX Cancer Center, Edison T. Liu Endowed Chair in Cancer Research
Director, Courses & Workshops | he/him
Professor of Dermatology and Pathology
Professor, Knowlton Family Chair
Professor and Chairwoman, Dept of Cell, Developmental, and Cancer Biology
Professor
Professor of Pediatrics