The Marie Curie ITN Network Conference “Tumor stroma-friend or foe?”
October 22-23, 2015
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The Marie Curie ITN Network CAFFEIN
INVITES YOU TO ATTEND OUR
1st International Conference
“The tumor stroma - friend or foe?”
October 22-23, 2015
Department of Biomedicine, University of Bergen
Bergen, Norway
Topics: Tumor-stroma interactions, Methods to study tumor-stroma interactions,
Tumor angiogenesis, Immune regulation, Cancer-associated fibroblasts,
Tumor-stroma interactions in the clinic.
Date | Session /Title | Speaker
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Thursday 22/10 | Location: Auditorium 4, Bygg for Biologiske Basalfag (BBB) Chairperson: Donald Gullberg | ||
9.00-9.35 | Keynote Tumor stroma- friend or foe? |
Raghu Kalluri |
MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston |
9.35-9.45 | Discussion | ||
9.45-10.20 | Probing clinical tumor microenvironment for discovery of biomarkers and drug targets | Arne Östman | Karolinska Inst. and CCBIO |
10.20-10.30 | Discussion | ||
10.30-10.45 | COFFEE |
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10.45-11.20 | Translational studies of tumor-vascular interactions | Lars Akslen | University of Bergen |
11.20-11.30 | Discussion | ||
11.30-12.05 | Clinical implications for understanding a CANCER in CONTEXT -examples from gynecological cancers | Helga Salvesen | University of Bergen |
12.05-12.15 | Discussion | ||
12.15-12.45 | LUNCH + POSTERS |
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Location: Autidorium 1, Bygg for Biologiske Basalfag (BBB) Chairperson: Taina Pihlajaniemi | |||
12.45-13.20 | Modelling the complex interactions in the tumour microenvironment of Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma | James Harper
| Medimmune |
13.20-13-30 | Discussion | ||
13.30-14.05 | Fibroblasts in skin biology | Emanuel Rognoni | Centre for Stem Cells & Regenerative Medicine, King´s College London |
14.05-14.15 | Discussion | ||
14.15-14.30 | COFFEE |
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14.30-15.05 | The role of CAFs in therapy failure | Erik Sahai | London Research Institute, UK |
15.05-15.15 | Discussion | ||
15.30-15.50 | An epigenetic switch mediates constitutive pro-invasive fibroblasts activation | Cedric Gaggioli | Institute for Research of Cancer and aging, Nice, France |
15.50-16.00 | Discussion | ||
16.00 | Business meeting |
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19.00 | Dinner | (CAFFEIN member and invited speakers only) | |
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Friday 23/10 | Location: Autidorium 1, Bygg for Biologiske Basalfag (BBB) Chairperson: Cord Brakebusch | ||
9.00-9.35 | Investigating the role of TGFβ signalling in mouse models of pancreatic and intestinal cancer | Jennifer Morton | The Beatson Institute for Cancer Research, Glasgow, UK |
9.35-9.45 | Discussion | ||
9.45-10.20 | α11 integrin a major collagen receptor on mesenchymal cells in wounds and tumors | Cédric Zeltz | University of Bergen |
10.20-10.30 | Discussion | ||
10.30-10.45 | COFFEE |
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10.45-11.20 | In vitro reconstruction of tumor microenvironment by use of organotypic 3D models |
Daniela Costea |
University of Bergen |
11.20-11.30 | Discussion | ||
11.30-12.05 | Spheroids and interstitial fluid pressure | Rolf K. Reed | University of Bergen |
12.05-12.15 | Discussion | ||
12.15-12.50 | Tumor-stromal interactions in blood cell cancers: biology and implication for therapy | Bjørn Tore Gjertsen | University of Bergen |
12.50-13.00 | Discussion | ||
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13.00-13.30 | LUNCH + POSTERS |
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Location: Autidorium 1, Bygg for Biologiske Basalfag (BBB) Chairperson: Hengshuo Liu | |||
13.30-16.30 | SHORT TALKS | Selected from posters
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13.30-13.50 | Ana Cavaco | ||
13.50-14.10 | Henriette Ertsås | ||
14.10-14.30 | Ram Mohan Ram Kumar | ||
| 14.30-14.50 | Mariangela Natale | ||
| 14.50-15.00 | Coffee | ||
| 15.10-15.30 | Guillermo Antonio Martinez Nieto | ||
| 15.30-15.50 | Anda Ströse | ||
| 15.50-16.10 | Deusdedit Tusubira | ||
| 16.10-16.30 | Inigo Martinez-Zubiaurre | ||
| 16.40 | Departure | ||
More information on hotels, transportation and conference, see the attachment to the right
