November 2, 2021
9:00 Welcome – Robia Pautler, Baylor College of Medicine and
Jim Bankson, UT MD Anderson Cancer Center
Convener: Robia Pautler, Baylor College of Medicine
9:05-10:00 Keynote: Photoimmunotherapy in Head and Neck Cancers: A New Form of Immunotherapy
Peter L. Choyke, Center for Cancer Research, National Caner Institute
10:00-10:20 Back to the Future: Theranostics in the Nuclear Medicine Clinic
Lesley Flynt, UT MD Anderson Cancer Center
10:20-10:30 break
Convener: Jim Bankson, UT MD Anderson Cancer Center
Session 1: Computational Imaging and Emerging Technologies
10:30-11:10 Disentangled Representation Learning for MRI Harmonization
Jerry Prince, Johns Hopkins Univ.
11:10-11:30 In vivo MRI Detection of Alpha-Synuclein Accumulation in a Mouse Model of Parkinsons Disease
Eric Tanifum, Texas Children’s Hospital
11:30-11:50 Live Dynamic Imaging on Mouse Embryonic Development with Optical Coherence Tomography
Irina Larina, Baylor College of Medicine
Convener: Eric Rohren, Baylor College of Medicine
Invited Short Talks
11:50-11:55 Functional Imaging of Embryonic Development with Noninvasive Volumetric Optoacoustic Tomography
Maryam Hatamimoslehabadi, Univ. of Houston
11:55-12:00 A Framework for Probabilistic Image Processing
Meng Li, Rice Univ.
12:00-12:05 Mapping of Label Retaining Cells and Hyaluronan in the Mouse Cornea
Xiao Lin, Univ. of Houston
12:05-12:10 Nano -radiomic Analysis of Tumor Microenvironment (TME) using Nanoparticle Contrast-enhanced Imaging Data Zbigniew Starosolski, Texas Children’s Hospital
12:10-12:15 FPGA Designs and Acceleration for Neural Networks
Xiaokun Yang, Univ. of Houston, Clear Lake
12:15-1:20 Lunch
Convener: Robia Pautler, Baylor College of Medicine
1:20-2:15 Keynote: Radiotherapeutics and Embolics: Knowing Where You Are
Dara L. Kraitchman, VMD, PhD, MS, Johns Hopkins Medicin
Convener: TBA
Session 2: Theranostics
2:15-2:35 Image-guided Radiotherapeutics – From Anatomical to Molecular
David Jaffray, PhD, UT MD Anderson Cancer Center
2:35-2:55 Radiopharmaceuticals for Imaging and Therapy: New Opportunities for Collaborative Research Across the GCC
Charles Manning, PhD, UT MD Anderson Cancer Center
2:55-3:05 break
Convener: Aradhana M. Venkatesan, MD Anderson Cancer Center
Session 3: Neuroimaging and more
3:05-4:00 Towards Imaging-informed Modeling of Rhenium-186 Nanoliposome Distribution via Convection Enhanced Delivery in Recurrent High-grade Gliomas
David Hormuth, University of Texas
4:00-4:20 Brain Iron in Internalizing Disorders in Youth
Chadi Calarage, Baylor College of Medicine
4:20-4:40 The Effects of Ketamine on the Brain Connectivity Networks
Chadi Abdallah, Baylor College of Medicine
4:40-5:00 Characterization of Retroplacental Clear Space Disruption in a Murine Model of Placental Accreta Spectrum (PAS)
Andrew Badachhappe, Baylor College of Medicine
Convener: Refaat Gabr, Univ. of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Session 4: Rapid Fire Talks
5:00-5:10 Rapid Fire Talks-new collaborations
Julie DiCarlo, UT Austin
Liwen Shih, Univ. of Houston, Clear Lake
Ana Maria Zaske, Univ. of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
5:10 Closing Remarks
Robia Pautler, Baylor College of Medicine and
Jim Bankson, UT MD Anderson Cancer Center