Meeting Agenda
ACTC 2012 TENTATIVE PROGRAM
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Day 4
DAY 1: Wednesday, September 26th, 2012 |
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| Time | Session/Title | Confirmed Speaker |
| Wednesday Sept 26 9:00 – 12:00 Plenary Lecture Session 1: Recent Advances in the biology of metastasis |
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| 7:30 – 8:15 | Registration | |
| 8:15 – 8:30 | Welcome address Chairperson’s Opening Remarks |
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| 8:30 – 9:00 PL1-1 KEYNOTE LECTURE |
“Detection, Characterization and Clinical relevance of CTCs” Klaus Pantel, Professor, Director, Institute of Tumour Biology, Centre of Experimental Medicine, University Medical Centre Hamburg Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany |
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| 9:00 – 9:30 PL1-2 |
“Epithelial-mesenchymal transitions in cancer onset and progression” | Jean Paul Thiery, Professor, Deputy Director, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, BIOPOLIS, Singapore |
| 9:30 – 10:00 PL1-3 |
“Genetic disparity between primary tumours, disseminated tumour cells, and manifest metastasis” | Christoph A. Klein, Professor Head, Division of Oncogenomics Department of Pathology,University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany |
| 10:00 – 10:30 PL1-4 |
“Unravelling the complexity of metastasis — molecular understanding and targeted therapies” | Yibin Kang,PhD,Associate Professor, Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Networking Coffee Break in the Exhibition Hall | |
| 11:00 – 11:30 PL1-5 |
“Clinical evidence for cancer dormancy and Circulating Tumour Cells” | Julio Aguirre-Ghiso, Associate Professor Mount Sinai School of Medicine New York, USA |
| 11:30 – 12:00 PL1-6 |
“Metastasis suppressor genes at the interface between the environment and tumour cell growth” | Danny R. Welch,Professor & Chair, Department of Cancer Biology, KU Cancer Center, Kansas, USA |
| 12:00 – 13:00 | Lunch Break - Exhibition visit | |
| 13:00 – 14:00 | ORAL PRESENTATION 1 (Selected Oral Presentations (n=6 speakers, 10 min each plus time for questions) | |
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| 14:00 – 15:30 | POSTER SESSION 1 | |
| 15:30 – 16:00 | Networking Coffee Break in the Exhibition Hall | |
| 16:00 – 18:00 Plenary Lecture Session 2: Recent Advances in Cancer Stem Cells |
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| 16:00 – 16:30 PL2-1 |
“Dormant blood stem cells and circulating cancer stem cells” | Andreas Trumpp,Professor and Head of the Department for Cell Biology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) Heidelberg, Germany |
| 16:30 – 17:00 PL2-2 |
“IL-6 regulated breast CSCs play role in trastuzumab resistance and metastasis” | Hasan Korkaya Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center, Ann Arbor, MI, USA |
| 17:00 – 17:30 PL2-3 KEYNOTE LECTURE |
“Tumorigenic Breast-cancer cells and metastasis” Michael F. Clarke,Stanford Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Stanford University, CA, USA |
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| 17:30 – 18:00 PL2-4 KEYNOTE LECTURE |
“Clinical Implications of the Cancer Stem Cell Hypothesis” Max Wicha,Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, Director, University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center, Ann Arbor, MI, USA |
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| 18:00 – 21:30 OPENING CEREMONY - WELCOME RECEPTION |
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