Training, Outreach, and Dissemination
In concert with our research program, we train and mentor a generation of scientists able to work at the interface of oncology and the physical sciences. We develop new classes, host seminars and conferences, and train graduate students and post-doctoral fellows.

These efforts are being complemented with an extensive "technology dissemination" program seeking to make available to the wider oncology community many of the manipulation and imaging tools and algorithms now being used in the physical sciences. Together with our sister Physical Sciences-Oncology centers, we hope to nucleate a large, multidisciplinary community of physical scientists proficient in oncology.

Events

Monthly dinners Our monthly dinners allow our investigators to share their work with the scientific and advocacy communities. Dinners are typically on the last Wednesday of every month, unless there is a visiting speaker or a holiday. The dates and locations of upcoming dinners are:

• Feb. 24, Berkeley: Jay Groves
• April 8, Mission Bay: M. Swartz (Thursday!)
• April 28, Berkeley: Sanjay Kumar & his Lab in conversation, "Cellular Mechanobiology & Cancer Connections") Dinner at 5pm, Talk at 6pm, 321 Stanley Hall. Details & Flyer PDF.
• May 26, Mission Bay
• June 30, Berkeley
• July 28, Mission Bay
• Aug. 25, Berkeley
• Sept. 29, Mission Bay
• Oct. 27, Berkeley
• Nov. 17, Mission Bay
• Dec. 15, Berkeley

Upcoming outreach events

April 17, 2010 Panel discussion at Cal Day. Several of our investigators, including Jan Liphardt, Jay Groves and Mina Bissell, will discuss our research and goals in front of a diverse audience of Cal Day attendees.

Other Resources
This spring, we will start training PS-OC scientists in cell culture. We'll post various manuals and protocols here.

3D cell culture methods

Demystifying the Effects of a Three-Dimensional Microenvironment in Tissue Morphogenesis
KR. Johnson, JL. Leight, and VM. Weaver
METHODS IN CELL BIOLOGY 83, Chap. 23 (2007) [download PDF]