![Pictured: Craig Thompson](https://www.mskcc.org/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/node/12291/images/2011beenesymposiumslideshow-slide2.jpg)
Opening remarks by Craig Thompson, President of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
![Pictured: Johanna Joyce, Robert Bowman & Thomas Kelly](https://www.mskcc.org/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/node/12291/images/2011beenesymposiumslideshow-slide3.jpg)
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
![Pictured: Joseph Sun, Jenny Karo & Thomas Kelly](https://www.mskcc.org/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/node/12291/images/2011beenesymposiumslideshow-slide4.jpg)
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
![Pictured: Meng-Fun Bryan Tsou, Thomas Kelly & Gregory Mazo](https://www.mskcc.org/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/node/12291/images/2011beenesymposiumslideshow-slide5.jpg)
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
![Pictured: Scott Lowe](https://www.mskcc.org/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/node/12291/images/2011beenesymposiumslideshow-slide6.jpg)
Speaker introductions by Scott Lowe, Chair of Geoffrey Beene Cancer Research Center
![Pictured: Peter Laird](https://www.mskcc.org/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/node/12291/images/2011beenesymposiumslideshow-slide7.jpg)
Peter Laird of the University of Southern California responds to audience questions following his presentation, Epigenetic Clues to the Origins of Cancer
![Pictured: Joan Massagué](https://www.mskcc.org/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/node/12291/images/2011beenesymposiumslideshow-slide8.jpg)
Joan Massagué, Chair of the Cancer Biology and Genetics Program, asks a follow-up question after Dr. Laird’s presentation
![Pictured: James Bradner](https://www.mskcc.org/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/node/12291/images/2011beenesymposiumslideshow-slide9.jpg)
James Bradner of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute presents Chemical Inhibition of Bromodomains in Cancer
![Pictured: Michelle Barton](https://www.mskcc.org/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/node/12291/images/2011beenesymposiumslideshow-slide11.jpg)
Michelle Barton of MD Anderson Cancer Center answers audience questions following her presentation, Tissue-Specific Interpretation by a Histone Reader
![Pictured: Peter Laird, James Bradner & Michelle Barton](https://www.mskcc.org/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/node/12291/images/2011beenesymposiumslideshow-slide12.jpg)
Symposium speakers Peter Laird, James Bradner, and Michelle Barton listen to the closing remarks
![Pictured: Geoffrey Beene Cancer Research Center Executive Committee](https://www.mskcc.org/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/node/12291/images/2011beenesymposiumslideshow-slide13.jpg)
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)