Komen Breast Cancer Forum

Tumor Intrinsic and Extrinsic Coregulations to Promote Breast Cancer Metastasis

Min Yu, Ph.D.

Professor, Department of Pharmacology and Physiology

University of Maryland School of Medicine

Hosted by: Siyuan Zhang, Ph.D.

Wednesday, September 16, 2026 at 9am

Location: NB5.124 Seminar Room (In-person Preferred)

and ZOOM: https://utsouthwestern-edu.zoom.us/j/99153374560?pwd=Y854aL8HPsAtTUpWIy47B5WoJk3sdC.1

Meeting ID: 991 5337 4560       Passcode: 849054

About Dr. Min Yu:

Dr. Yu's laboratory is interested in understanding the genetic, epigenetic and microenvironmental regulations of circulating tumor cells (CTCs) that lead to initiation of cancer metastasis in various organs. The overarching goal is to be able to utilize CTCs from blood samples of cancer patients as a non-invasive “liquid biopsy” to inform the prognostic and therapeutic interventions for metastasis.

Dr. Yu obtained her PhD in Genetics from SUNY Stony Brook under the guidance of Dr. Senthil Muthuswamy at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, investigating transcriptomic changes of mammary epithelial cells during three-dimensional morphogenesis growing in Matrigel in comparison to monolayer cultures. She subsequently obtained training in the field of CTCs and cancer metastasis in the laboratory of HHMI investigator Dr. Daniel Haber at Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center, Harvard Medical School. She established her independent laboratory in 2014 at University of Southern California and obtained tenure promotion as Associate Professor in 2021. Since January 2023, she became an Associate Professor at Department of Pharmacology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore.

Lab website: http://www.minyulab.org/