Opening remarks by Craig Thompson, President of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Robert Bowman (middle) is presented the 2011 Geoffrey Beene Graduate Fellowship Award by Thomas Kelly, Director of the Sloan Kettering Institute, and mentor Johanna Joyce, PhD

Fellow Jenny Karo (middle) is presented the 2011 Geoffrey Beene Graduate Fellowship Award by Thomas Kelly, Director of the Sloan Kettering Institute, and mentor Joseph Sun, PhD

Gregory Mazo (right) along with his mentor, Meng-Fu Bryan Tsou, PhD, and Thomas Kelly, Director of the Sloan Kettering Institute, is presented the 2011 Geoffrey Beene Graduate Fellowship Award

Speaker introductions by Scott Lowe, Chair of Geoffrey Beene Cancer Research Center

Peter Laird of the University of Southern California responds to audience questions following his presentation, Epigenetic Clues to the Origins of Cancer

Joan Massagué, Chair of the Cancer Biology and Genetics Program, asks a follow-up question after Dr. Laird’s presentation

James Bradner of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute presents Chemical Inhibition of Bromodomains in Cancer

Michelle Barton of MD Anderson Cancer Center answers audience questions following her presentation, Tissue-Specific Interpretation by a Histone Reader

Symposium speakers Peter Laird, James Bradner, and Michelle Barton listen to the closing remarks

Beene Executive Committee Members -- (From left) Craig Thompson, Thomas Kelly, Larry Norton, Scott Lowe, Charles Sawyers, David Scheinberg, G. Thompson Hutton, and Joan Massagué (Absent: James Allison and Robert Wittes)