Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Boston, CA
Jessalyn Ubellacker conducted her postdoctoral work in the laboratory of Dr. Sean J. Morrison at the Children’s Research Institute at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School. During her postdoctoral training, she discovered melanoma cells escaping to lymph nodes experience less oxidative stress and form more metastasis than melanoma cells circulating in the blood. Her work has suggested that initial metastasis through lymph nodes allows cancer cells to survive subsequent metastasis through the blood by protecting cancer cells from lipid reactive oxygen species. Jessalyn previously received her PhD in Biological and Biomedical Sciences (BBS) from Harvard Medical School, where she studied the influence of the tumor microenvironment on cancer metastasis in the lab of Dr. Sandra S. McAllister. Dr. Ubellacker holds an MA in Medical Science from Boston University, where she also worked as a research assistant, and earned her MPH and BS degrees from the University of Kentucky.
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Inducing Ferroptosis in Lymph Node Cancer Cells to Promote an Immunogenic Response
Sunday, September 29, 2024
8:17 AM – 8:32 AM ET