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No. Molecular and cellular, actually. Not much math these days. :/





teamramonycajal  ·  3942 days ago  ·  link  ·  

HOSHIT

I have a bit of a side interest in childhood brain cancers myself, especially since they have a huge developmental component, and also recently read this paper in class which was very cool:

Nobuoka, D. et al. (2013) Intratumoral peptide injection enhances tumor cell antigenicity recognized by cytotoxic T lymphocytes: a potential option for improvement in antigen-specific cancer immunotherapy. Cancer Immunology. Immunotherapy 62:639-652.

Maybe Hubski needs a meetup at SfN, but I'm not going to be able to attend one until 2015.

b_b  ·  3942 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Have you been to an SfN meeting? They're too big and chaotic for my taste. I haven't been in several years for that reason. I would always recommend going to smaller, more targeted conferences that are more focused on your area of interest, if your primary goals are to learn and network with other researchers. The upside of a 30,000+ attendee conference is that there are always very famous and interesting plenary speakers.

Edit: Also, at small conferences you often have free food, coffee, sometimes cocktails; spontaneous parties and dinners happen. It's much more intimate and enjoyable on the whole than being sheep herded and bombarded with ads.

teamramonycajal  ·  3942 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I like huge meetings. I can collect swag.

user-inactivated  ·  3941 days ago  ·  link  ·  

The contrast between this comment and your last is hilarious. What's your occupation?

mk  ·  3942 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I think immunotherapy is where it's at.

    Maybe Hubski needs a meetup at SfN, but I'm not going to be able to attend one until 2015.

That's a real possibility.

steve  ·  3942 days ago  ·  link  ·  

man… why does SfN hate Denver so much?

2014 Washington, DC Nov. 15-19

2015 Chicago, Illinois Oct. 17-21

2016 San Diego, California Nov. 12-16

2017 Washington, DC Nov. 11-15

2018 San Diego, California Nov. 3-7

2019 Chicago, Illinois Oct. 19-23

2020 Washington, DC Oct. 24-28

2021 Chicago, Illinois Oct. 13-17

Not that I would go necessarily…. but I would love to host the hubski meetup.

iammyownrushmore  ·  3942 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    I think immunotherapy is where it's at.

Mos def.

I don't know terribly much about them, but Newlink Genetics (bad link, but you get the picture) is going in to Phase 3 trials for pancreatic cancer, and they've had very good results so far with their immunotherapy options.

Then again, other giants have fallen at places farther along than they.