FUTURE CONFERENCES
2026 CABS CONFERENCE - SAVE THE DATE!
Join us in Tampa, FL March 3-5 2026 for our next stand-alone CABS conference! Planning is underway. Please check back soon for more details.
2025 CABS virtual symposium- SAVE THE DATE!
Join us online September 17th, 2025 for an all-day, online-only session dedicated to state-of-the-art technical protocols associated with cancer and bone research! Planning is underway. Please check back soon for more details.
Program (* Times are subject to change)
Session I: Introduction
9:00 - 9:10 AM | Introduction from CABS/ESI
9:10 - 10:10 AM | Keynote Talk: Immunocompetent mouse models of lung cancer bone metastasis (Penelope Ottewell, PhD)
Session 2: Ex Vivo and Cell Culture Models
10:15 – 10:45 AM |Bon3OIDs: Highly mineralized bone models to understand and diagnose bone conditions (Gian Nutal Schädli, PhD)
10:45 – 11:15 AM |Human specific models for studying ER+ve and ER-ve breast cancer bone metastasis (Diane Lefley, PhD Candidate)
11:15 – 11:45 PM |Vascular Gatekeepers of Bone Integrity: Linking Aging and Cancer (Anjali Kusumbe, PhD)
Methodology on ex vivo cancer and bone organ cultures using human and mouse tissues (Japneet Kaur, PhD)
Session 3: Spatial & Imaging Techniques in Bone
12:30 - 1:00 PM | Interrogating Skeletal Biology by Live Cell Imaging (Sarah Dallas, PhD)
1:00 - 1:30 PM |Profiling microenvironment of pan-cancer bone metastases (Fengshuo Liu, PhD Candidate)
1:30 - 2:00 PM |10x HD Visium pipeline for spatial transcriptomic profiling of mouse bone (immunocompetent model of prostate and myeloma) (Haley DuBois, PhD)
2:00 – 2:30 PM |Automated Bone Segmentation with Skellytour (Chris Wardell, PhD)
2:30 – 2:45 PM | Break
Session 4: In Vivo and Translational Models
2:45 – 3:15 PM | Identifying RNAseq-based biomarkers in multiple myeloma (Praneeth Sudalagunta, PhD)
3:15 – 3:45 PM |Mouse model of cancer-induced bone pain (Kelly Contino, PhD Candidate)
3:45 – 4:15 PM | In vivo and ex-vivo imaging of tumor cell-osteoclast interactions (Michelle McDonald, PhD)
4:15 PM | Closing Remarks & Adjournment
· Thank you message from the organizing committee
Past Conferences:
2025 CANCER AND BONE SOCIETY ASIA - PACIFIC CONFERENCE: Seoul Symposium on Bone Health
Group Photo
Images from CABS-KSBMR Conference
