2009 MIPS Molecular Imaging Seminar Series

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Seminar 4:30 − 5:15 pm
Discussion 5:15 − 5:30 pm
Clark Auditorium, Bio-X
Stanford University Campus
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Invited Speakers
January 5, 2009 February 2, 2009 March 9, 2009 April 6, 2009 May 11, 2009 June 1, 2009 June 8, 2009 June 15, 2009 July 13, 2009 August 10, 2009 September 14, 2009 October 12, 2009 November 9, 2009 December 7, 2009	CANCELLED Jeff Bulte, PhD - Webcast Not Available Juri Gelovani, MD, PhD - View Webcast Robert H. Mach, PhD - View Webcast Alexander L. (Sasha) Kalibanov, PhD - View Webcast Duane A. Mitchell, MD, PhD - View Webcast Bertrand Tavitian, MD - View Webcast Kurt Zinn, DVM, PhD - Webcast Not Available Steven Conolly, PhD - View Webcast CANCELLED CANCELLED Raymond Kim, MD - View Webcast John M Canty, Jr, MD - View Webcast Robert Jeraj - View Webcast

Invited Speakers

January 5, 2009
February 2, 2009
March 9, 2009
April 6, 2009
May 11, 2009
June 1, 2009
June 8, 2009
June 15, 2009
July 13, 2009
August 10, 2009
September 14, 2009
October 12, 2009
November 9, 2009
December 7, 2009

CANCELLED
Jeff Bulte, PhD - Webcast Not Available
Juri Gelovani, MD, PhD - View Webcast
Robert H. Mach, PhD - View Webcast
Alexander L. (Sasha) Kalibanov, PhD - View Webcast
Duane A. Mitchell, MD, PhD - View Webcast
Bertrand Tavitian, MD - View Webcast
Kurt Zinn, DVM, PhD - Webcast Not Available
Steven Conolly, PhD - View Webcast
CANCELLED
CANCELLED
Raymond Kim, MD - View Webcast
John M Canty, Jr, MD - View Webcast
Robert Jeraj - View Webcast

Jan 5, 2009 Clark Auditorium Mike Tweedle President Bracco Research USA, Inc.,	Peptide Targeted Molecular Imaging Agents Abstract: CANCELLED
Jan 12, 2009	TBD
Jan 26, 2009	Cellular Responses to Nucleotide Depletion Beverly Mitchell, George E. Becker Professor in Medicine and Professor, by courtesy, of Chemical and Systems Biology, Dept. of Medicine Oncology
Feb 2, 2009 Clark Auditorium Jeff Bulte, PhD Prof. Radiology, Biomed Eng And Chem & Biomol Eng Dir, Cellular Imaging Section, Institute for Cell Engineering Johns Hopkins	MR-Guided Cell Delivery and Cell Tracking: From Imaging to Intervention Abstract: The clinical development of novel immune and stem cell therapies calls for suitable methods that can follow the fate of cells non-invasively in humans at high resolution. Our lab has developed several methods to label cells magnetically (using tiny superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles) in order to make them visible by MR imaging. Following years of extensive animal research, in 2005 this technology was introduced in the clinic uaing dendritic cell cancer vaccines. MRI cell tracking is further pursued in animal models of de- and dys-myelination, multiple sclerosis, brain tumors, spinal cord injury, stroke, and cardiovascular disease. Novel reporter genes are also being developed that can provide contrast on MRI scans. Artificial proteins are being designed, cloned, and expressed in mammalian cells that contain specific proton exchangable groups of which the proton signal can be manipulated. Instead of directly labeling cells, we have also shown that semi-permeable alginate microcapsules can be loaded with multimodal contrast agents while offering simultaneous immunoprotection of cellular therapeutics. While the Bulte lab is primarily doing basic and pre-clinical research, there is a strong interaction with the clinical interventional radiology and oncology groups in order to bring the methodologies into the clinic.
Feb 23, 2009	Affibody Based PET Probes for Cancer Molecular Imaging Zhen Cheng, PhD Asstistant Professor of Radiology, Stanford
Mar 9, 2009 Clark Auditorium Juri Gelovani, MD, PhD Univ of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center View Webcast	Imaging HIF-1 and its significance in tumor biology Abstract: The current presentation will discuss the mechanism and spatio-temporal dynamics of HIF-1 mediated responses to radiation in well characterized tumor reporter cell lines stably transfected with a bifunctional genetic reporter consisting of herpes simplex virus 1-thymidine kinase (HSV-tk) and green fluorescent protein (GFP) under transcriptional control of multiple tandem repeats of the hypoxia response element (Serganova et al., 2004; Wen et al., 2004). Repetitive, non-invasive whole body molecular-genetic PET imaging of HIF-1 signaling in mice is achieved through selective retention in tumors of ¹⁸F-labeled reporter substrate 2-fluoro-2-deoxy-1-D-arabionofuranosyl-5-ethyl-uracil (FEAU). Our hypothesis was that selective HIF-1 therapy potentially provides a wider spectrum of radiosensitizing effects than inhibition of individual downstream effectors, with fewer available mechanisms for resistance. In sharp contrast to mechanisms suggested by the prior report by Moeller, et al, (2004), our results indicate that tumor cell HIF-1 signaling is closely associated with microenvironmental ischemia. Specifically, we demonstrate in monolayer cultures and multicellular spheroids that radiation inhibits HIF-1 transcriptional activity in a dose dependent manner up to 16 Gy. In sharp contrast, in vivo irradiation of HIF-reporter tumor xenografts with 8 Gy yields delayed hypoxia-dependent upregulation of HIF-1 signaling at 48 hours. Functional MRI, power Doppler ultrasound, and immunohistochemical in situ analysis demonstrate that the delayed upregulation of HIF-1 signaling and VEGF production in the tumor cell compartment is induced by radiation-specific disruption of stromal endothelium and vascular integrity, and by the subsequent loss of perfusion and increased ischemia. This secondary ischemia-induced upregulation of HIF-1 signaling in tumor cells serves as the adaptive mechanism for stromal revascularization responsible for tumor resistance to radiotherapy. Further proof of this mechanism was provided by inhibition of HIF-1 signaling using the selective inhibitor PX-478 (Welsh et al., 2004), which suppressed adaptive tumor revascularization and sensitized tumors to radiation. Taken together, these data clearly demonstrate that tumor radioresistance is mediated by tumor-stromal interactions and by the capacity of tumor to compensate for radiation-induced vascular collapse and ischemia through secondary upregulation of HIF-1 dependent pro-angiogenic signaling. Selective inhibition of HIF-1 mediated VEGF signaling is a promising strategy for restoring tumor radiosensitivity.
Mar 16, 2009	Intravascular Ultrasound Paul Yock, MD Martha Meier Weiland Professor, Bioengineering and Medicine Director, Program in Biodesign, Stanford University
Mar 23, 2009	TBD Nick Denko, Stanford
Apr 6, 2009 Clark Auditorium Robert H. Mach, PhD Prof. Radiology Washington Univ. School of Medicine View Webcast	The Sigma-2 Receptor: a Biomarker for Imaging the Proliferative Status of Solid Tumors Abstract: The development of radiotracers for imaging cell proliferation in solid tumors has focused on radiolabeled thymidine analogs which measure the salvage pathway of DNA synthesis. However, since thymidine analogs provide a measure the S phase fraction of a tumor, they are unable to discriminate between proliferating cells in G1 and G2/M phases of the cell cycle and cancer cells driven into quiescence (G0) by nutrient deprivation and hypoxia. This talk will focus on the characterization of the sigma-2 receptor as a Ki-67-like biomarker for imaging cell proliferation, and the development of radiotracers for imaging the sigma-2 receptor status of solid tumors in vivo with Positron Emission Tomography (PET).
Apr 27, 2009	Planar cell polarity: from cells to tissues to organisms Jeff Axelrod Associate Professor, Department of Pathology, Stanford.
May 4, 2009	18F-labeled RGD peptides: an update Scott Liu (Chen lab)
May 11, 2009 Clark Auditorium Alexander L. (Sasha) Kalibanov, PhD Prof, Div of CV Med & Dept of Biomed Eng University of Virginia View Webcast	Targeted Microbubbles - Ultrasound Contrast Agents for Molecular Imaging and Drug Delivery Abstract: Ultrasound traditionally (8-15 years ago) was regarded as an imaging modality unfit for targeted/molecular imaging. However, microbubble contrast agents can be decorated with targeting ligands, and ligand-targeted bubbles do attach to the receptor-coated surfaces quite effectively. Clinical ultrasound imaging systems allow detection of individual microbubbles (with micrometer size and picogram mass). Therefore, molecular imaging with ultrasound contrast agents is feasible.
June 1, 2009 Clark Auditorium Duane A. Mitchell, MD, PhD Asst. Prof., Neurology Assoc. Dir., Duke Brain Tumor Immunotherapy Program View Webcast	Adoptive Cellular Therapy for Treatment of Malignant Glioma: Opportunities for Bioimaging
June 8, 2009 Clark Auditorium Bertrand Tavitian, MD Prof. Biochem Head, Laboratoire d'Imagerie moléculaire expérimentale (Experimental Molecular imaging Lab) at the CEA-Inserm in Orsay, France View Webcast	Molecular imaging with oligonucleotides Abstract: Molecular Imaging can assess gene expression non–invasively, repeatedly and quantitatively in living subjects. Pharmaco-Imaging of oligonucleotides allows quantifying in 3-D and in the whole bodies of animals and Humans the bio-distribution time course of antisense, aptamers, interfering RNAs, ribozymes, etc. The methodology and examples of applications for the assessment of targeting and delivery of oligonucleotides will be presented. Use of oligonucleotides as diagnostic contrast agents is a longer way ahead of us and remains still an open question. It will require that a sufficient contrast is obtained in vivo and a correlation between tracer and target concentrations, two issues that are yet to be demonstrated.
June 15, 2009 Clark Auditorium Kurt Zinn, DVM, PhD Prof. Rad, University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB)	Cancer Therapy Targeting Death Receptor 5 Abstract: TBD
June 29, 2009	Targeted Molecular Imaging, a Random and a Rational Approach Julie Sutcliffe, Ph.D, Associate Professor, Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, UC Davis, CA
July 6, 2009	A Cell-compatible Condensation Reaction for Controlled In Vivo Synthesis of Nanostructures Marybeth Pysz, Willmann lab Clinically-Translatable Microbubbles for Cancer Detection and Monitoring with Molecular Ultrasound Gaolin Liang, Rao Lab
July 13, 2009 Clark Auditorium Steven Conolly, PhD UC Berkeley Bioengineering Chair, UCSF/UC Berkeley Graduate Group in BioE Vice Chair of Undergraduate Affairs View Webcast	Instrumentation for MRI and Magnetic Nano-Particle Imaging Abstract: My research group at Berkeley focuses on instrumentation advances for medical imaging, with a special emphasis in magnetic imaging methods. Here I will overview two recent research projects, conducted in collaboration with Stanford researchers. Magnetic Nano-Particle Imaging is a brand new imaging modality that offers 300 micron resolution, no attenuation with depth, and has great promise for 100-fold increase in Contrast to Noise Ratio (CNR) relative to MRI using an FDA-approved SPIO contrast agent. This could be useful for stem cell tracking in vivo, inflammation imaging, angiography, and cancer imaging. My group has built the first MPI scanner in North America. PG Foam for High Field MRI Shimming we have developed a new composite material that matches a human's magnetic susceptibility. We use pyrolytic graphite micro-crystals embedded in a comfortable closed cell foam. We plan to use this to improve the main field homogeneity to 1 ppm despite the 9 ppm field inhomogeneity introduced at the air-tissue interface. This is the level of homogeneity needed for fast imaging, and robust detection of breast cancer.
July 20, 2009	Multimodality Imaging of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms Monica Dua, MD, Dalman Lab
July 27, 2009	TBD
Aug 3, 2009	Molecular profiling of tumor angiogenesis with ultrasound Nirupama Suresh DeshPande, Willmann Lab Molecular Imaging of Malignant Melanoma Using Peptide and Small Molecule Based PET Probes Gang Ren, Cheng Lab
Aug 10, 2009 Clark Auditorium TBD	TBD Abstract: CANCELLED
Aug 17, 2009	Optogenetics: development and application Karl Deisseroth, MD, PhD Associate Professor of Bioengineering and Psychiatry, Stanford University
Aug 24, 2009	Optical Imaging to Guide Surgical Resection of Head and Neck Cancer Eben Rosenthal, PhD Julius Hicks Professor of Surgery, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Aug 31, 2009	Molecular Imaging of Cancer Metastases and the Pre-metastatic Niche Carolyn Anderson, PhD Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO
Sept 14, 2009 Clark Auditorium TBD	TBD Abstract: CANCELLED
Sept 21, 2009	Imaging metabolic reprogramming in cancer Nicholas Denko, MD, PhD Assistant Professor, Dept. of Radiology Oncology, Stranford
Sept 28, 2009	TBD
Oct 5, 2009	TBD Ning Sun, Wu Lab TBD Simon Liu, Cheng lab
OCt 12, 2009 Clark Auditorium Raymond Kim, MD Assoc. Prof., Medicine Duke University View Webcast	TBD Abstract
Oct 19, 2009	TBD Philip Yang Cardiovascular Med., Stanford
Oct 26, 2009	TBD Lei Xing Professor, Stanford University School of Medicine
Nov 2, 2009	TBD Zheng Miao, Cheng Lab TBD Jin Xie, Chen Lab
Nov 9, 2009 Clark Auditorium John M Canty, Jr, MD View Webcast	TBD Abstract:
Nov 16, 2009	TBD Minal Vasanawala Stanford Nuclear Medicine VA Clinic
Nov 23, 2009	TBD John M Canty, Jr, MD, Department of Medicine University at Buffalo
Dec 7, 2009 Clark Auditorium TBD	Abstract:
Dec 14, 2009	TBD Jeremy Pearl, Wu Lab TBD Arne Vandenbroucke, Levin Lab
Dec 21, 2009	TBD Juergen Willman, MD, PhD Assistant Professor of Radiology (section abdominal imaging), Stanford University School of Medicine
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