- Tuesday, March 17th, 2 p.m., Presentation by Dr. Jonathan Kelber, Lecture Hall of Dionýz Blaškovič, Institute of Virology, BMC SAS
A presentation entitled Decoding Solid Tumor Trajectories: The ALPHA/OMEGA Paradigm by Dr. Jonathan Kelber who is a Fulbright Specialist and an Associate Professor of biology at Baylor University and directs the NIH-funded Developmental Oncogene Laboratory that aims to understand mechanisms controlling cell state plasticity and proliferation during cancer progression and tissue regeneration.
Dr. Kelber serves as a member of the NIH Tumor Evolution Heterogeneity and Metastasis study section. He received his BS/MS in chemistry from California State Polytechnic University (Cal Poly Pomona), where he conducted research in biophysics under the mentoring of Dr. Patrick Mobley. He received a PhD in biochemistry from UCSD (University of California, San Diego) and studied TGFbeta signaling with Wylie Vale at the Salk Institute. He completed an NIH-IRACDA postdoctoral fellowship with Richard Klemke at UCSD (University of California, San Diego) and identified the PEAK1 pseudokinase as a driver of cancer progression.