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Home » Keynote Speaker Announced for Lewis Landsberg Research Day 2018
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Keynote Speaker Announced for Lewis Landsberg Research Day 2018

By Erin SpainMar 26, 2018
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Mina J. Bissell, PhD, FRSC Distinguished Scientist Senior Advisor to the Laboratory Director on Biology Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, University California, will deliver the 2018 Research Day keynote address.
Mina J. Bissell, PhD, FRSC, distinguished scientist and senior advisor to the laboratory director on Biology, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, will deliver the 2018 Research Day keynote address.

Mina J. Bissell, PhD, will deliver the keynote address at the 14th Annual Lewis Landsberg Research Day, Thursday, April 5. Her title of her talk is, “From laminins to lamins and p53: How does a breast cell know to be a breast, and what happens when it forgets?”

The 1:00 p.m. keynote address in John Hughes Auditorium, Robert H. Lurie Medical Research Center, will kick-off Research Day activities, which includes a poster session with more than 400 presenters from the Feinberg community and ends with an awards ceremony.

Bissell is a Distinguished Scientist, the highest rank bestowed at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) and serves as Senior Advisor to the Laboratory Director on Biology. She is also Faculty of four Graduate Groups in UC Berkeley: Comparative Biochemistry, Endocrinology, Molecular Toxicology, and Bioengineering (UCSF/UCB joint program). Having challenged several established paradigms, Bissell is a pioneer in breast cancer research and her body of work has provided much impetus for the current recognition of the significant role that extracellular matrix signaling and microenvironment play in gene expression regulation in both normal and malignant cells. Her laboratory developed novel 3D assays and techniques that demonstrate her signature phrase: after conception, “phenotype is dominant over genotype.”

Bissell earned her doctorate in microbiology and molecular genetics from Harvard Medical School, won an American Cancer Society fellowship for her postdoctoral studies, and soon after joined LBNL. She was the founding Director of the Cell and Molecular Biology Division and later the Associate Laboratory Director for all Life Sciences at Berkeley Lab where she recruited outstanding scientists and developed a strong program in cell and molecular biology and breast cancer.

Bissell has published more than 400 publications and is one of the most sought-after speakers in the field. She has received numerous honors and awards, which include: U.S. Department of Energy’s E.O. Lawrence Award, AACR’s G.H.A. Clowes Memorial Award, the Pezcoller Foundation-AACR International Award, Susan G. Komen Foundation’s Brinker Award, BCRF Foundation’s Jill Rose Award, Berkeley Lab’s inaugural Lifetime Achievement Prize, American Cancer Society’s Medal of Honor, MD Anderson Cancer Center’s highest honor – the Ernst W. Bertner Award, the Honorary Medal from the Signaling Societies in Germany, ASCB’s highest honor – the E.B. Wilson Medal, and the 2017 AACR Award for Lifetime Achievement in Cancer Research. Bissell is an inspiring mentor and in her honor, the University of Porto, Portugal established the Mina J. Bissell Award which is given every three years to a person who has dramatically changed a field. She is the recipient of Honorary Doctorates from both Pierre & Marie Curie University in Paris, France and University of Copenhagen in Denmark.

Bissell is not only an elected Fellow of most U.S. honorary scientific academies, including National Academy of Sciences (NAS), National Academy of Medicine (NAM), and American Philosophical Society (APS), but she also sits on many national and international scientific boards and continues to engage in full-time research, among other scientific activities. Mina J. Bissell, PhD, FRSC, Distinguished Scientist, BSE Division, Berkeley Lab, Senior Advisor to the Laboratory Director on Biology, Berkeley Lab and faculty of four graduate groups at UC Berkeley: Comparative Biochemistry, Endocrinology, Molecular Toxicology, Bioengineering (UCSF/UCB joint).

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