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Unravelling Cancer Cell Invasion And Metastasis: Turin (Italy), 2-3 December 2010
Unravelling Cancer Cell Invasion And Metastasis: Turin (Italy), 2-3 December 2010
















Programme

The workshop will start on 2 December 2010 at 8H30 and will end on 3 December 2010 at 16H10

 

Thursday 2 December 2010

Time Topic
08:30 - 09:00 Registration
09:00 - 09:10 Welcome and introduction for the MetaFight project
Paola Defilippi (University of Torino, IT), MetaFight project coordinator
Screening / Target Identification - Chair person: Ermanno Gherardi (MRC, Cambridge, UK)
09:10 - 09:40 “Imaging-based functional screening for candidate metastasis target gene identification”
Bob van de Water, (University of Leiden, NL)
09:40 - 10:10 “The role of PKCζ and its downstream targets in the regulation of persistent migration in cultured H1299 cells”
Benjamin Geiger (Weizmann Institute of Science, IL)
10:10 - 10:40 “Proteomics technology to study metastasis”
Matthias Mann (Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, DE)
10:40 - 11:10 Coffee Break
11:10 - 11:40 "Searching for metastasis related genes: lessons from molecular studies in colorectal cancer"
Sabine Tejpar (University Hospital Gasthuisberg, BE)
In Vitro Cell Migration and Invasion Models - Chair person: Philippe Chavrier (Curie, Paris, FR)
11:40 - 12:10 “Src kinase downstream effectors in the control of melanoma metastasis”
Joaquin Teixidó (Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas, ES)
12:10 - 14:00 Lunch and Poster Session
14:00 - 14:30 “Active and inactive integrins“
Jyrki Heino (University of Turku, Finland)
14:30 - 15:00 “Nedd9 and Aurora-A: integrating multiple signaling pathways in cancer”
Erica Golemis (Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, USA)
15:00 - 15:30 “Integrin trafficking and cancer cell migration”
Jim Norman (Beatson Institute for Cancer Research, UK)
15:30 - 16:00 “Targeting MET in human tumours: a matter of oncogene addiction and expedience”
Livio Trusolino (Institute for Cancer Research & Treatment, IT)

16:00 - 16:30

Coffee Break

Animal Metastasis Models (1st Part) - Chair person: Daniela Taverna (MBC, Turin, IT)
16:30 - 17:00 “p130Cas and p140Cap adaptors as opposite regulators of cancer cell invasion and metastasis formation”
Paola Defilippi (University of Torino, IT)
17:00 - 17:30 “Genetic analysis of integrin signalling in mice”
Reinhard Fässler (Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, DE)
Keynote Address - Adriana Albini (IRCCS MultiMedica, Milan IT)
17:30 - 18:00 "Cancer micrometastasis and circulating tumor cells"
Klaus Pantel (Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf, DE)
18:00 - 20:00 Cocktail and Poster Session

 

Friday 3 December 2010

Time Topic
Animal Metastasis Models (2nd Part) - Chair person: Daniela Taverna (MBC, Turin, IT)
09:00 - 09:30 "Targets of Raf in tumorigenesis"
Manuela Baccarini (Max F. Perutz Laboratories, Austria)
09:30 - 10:00 “Imaging the metastatic process”
Erik Sahai (London Research Institute, UK)
10:00 - 10:30 “Constitutive signalling by Vav family oncoproteins is essential for lung metastasis of breast cancer cells”
Xosé Bustelo (University of Salamanca, ES)
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
Preparing the Soil, Cancer Stem Cell - Chair person: Geert Berx (VIB & Ghent Univ, BE)
11:00 - 11:30 “Macrophages: A cellular toolbox used by tumors to promote malignancy and metastasis”
Jeffrey Pollard (Albert Einstein College of Medicine, NY, US)
11:30 - 12:00 “Quiescent stem cells in homeostasis, inflammation and cancer”
Riccardo Fodde (Josephine Nefkens Institute, NL)
12:00 - 12:30 “Dormancy of disseminated tumor cells : the prelude to metastasis”
Julio Aguirre Ghiso (Tisch Cancer Institute at Mount Sinai, NY, US)
12:30 - 13:00 “Signals controlling exit from dormancy at metastatic sites”
Filippo Giancotti (Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, NY, US)
13:00 - 15:00 Lunch and Poster Session
Keynote Address - Chair person: Björn Kull (Actar, Stockholm, SE)
15:00 - 15:30 “Epithelial mesenchymal transition in the progression of carcinoma”
Jean Paul Thiery (Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, SG)
Advances in Translational Research - Chair person: Björn Kull (Actar, Stockholm, SE)
15:30 - 16:00 “Development of PAK4 inhibitors as potential cancer therapy”
Staffan Strömblad (Karolinska Institute, SE)
16:00 - 16:30 “Identification of novel CAF-derived biomarkers and potential drug targets”
Arne Östman (Karolinska Institute, SE)
  Conclusion
16:30 Conclusion of the Meeting

 

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The workshop "Unravelling Cancer Cell Invasion & Metastasis" is organized by the EC funded FP7 collaborative project MetaFight