Conference Description
The Synthetic Lethality Approaches in Oncology GRS provides a unique forum for young doctoral and post-doctoral researchers to present their work, discuss new methods, cutting edge ideas, and pre-published data, as well as to build collaborative relationships with their peers. Experienced mentors and trainee moderators will facilitate active participation in scientific discussion to allow all attendees to be engaged participants rather than spectators.
Our GRS formally invites early-career scientists investigating synthetic lethalities across cancer, whether experimentally or computationally. This includes work focused on expanding the current understanding of a known synthetic lethal target or applying broad approaches to identify new ones.
In the spirit of celebrating the resources provided by the greater scientific community, we kindly ask you to incorporate a “public data” aspect to your talk or poster presentation. We want to hear how you have used or generated publicly available data to inform your research. This can vary in complexity from simply stratifying publicly available patient data by a gene's copy number to training machine learning models to identify biomarkers of a particular vulnerability. This “public data” aspect is not only a way for us to evaluate an attendee’s fit for the seminar but also to encourage everyone to share the creative ways they’ve leveraged publicly available data from exciting resources that may be unknown to their peers. A brief description or a few keywords highlighting this aspect in your abstract is sufficient.
Application Instructions
The seminar will feature approximately 10 talks and 2 poster sessions. All attendees are expected to actively participate in the GRS, either by giving an oral presentation or presenting a poster. Therefore, all applications must include an abstract.
The seminar chair will select speakers from abstracts submitted by April 18, 2027. Those applicants who are not chosen for talks and those who apply after the deadline to be considered for an oral presentation will be expected to present a poster. In order to participate, you must submit an application by the date indicated in the Application Information section above.
Program Format
Gordon Research Seminars are 2-day meetings which take place on the Saturday and Sunday just prior to the start of the associated GRC. The GRS opens with a 1-hour introductory session on Saturday afternoon, followed by a poster session, dinner and a 2-hour session in the evening. Sunday morning begins with breakfast and is followed by another 2-hour session, a second poster session, and lunch. A final 1-hour session takes place just after lunch, and the associated GRC begins later that evening.
