8th International Conference on Tumor Microenvironment and Cellular Stress: Signaling, Metabolism, Imaging and Therapeutic Targets

Program - Wednesday, September 28

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    Accommodations

    Accommodations for the conference are at the Sheraton Hotel. The Hotel is located in Ixia, Rhodes, 14.5 km from the airport.

    Arrival and Check-in 

    Attendees are expected to arrive/check-in after 3:00 PM local time. Registered participants arriving after 10:00 PM should make alternative dinner arrangements.  

    Conference Venue

    The Sheraton Conference Center is located at the hotel.  

    Handicapped Accessibility 

    The site is fully handicapped accessible. 

    Oral Presentations

    Speakers are asked to bring their USB flash drive to the reception desk at least 30 minutes prior to the session. The allocated time for all presentations, unless otherwise indicated, includes five minutes Q&A. 

    City Tour

    Buses for the city tour will depart from the hotel front lobby 3:00 PM. Badges are required for participation. 

    Breakfast

    Breakfast for registered participants and registered accompanying persons will be served at the Sheraton Hotel main restaurant during the hours scheduled in this program.

    Lunches/Informal Discussions

    Lunches for registered participants and registered accompanying persons will be served during the times indicated in this program at the main restaurant. Badges are required for admission.

    Dinners/Informal Discussions

    Three of the dinners/informal discussions will be served during the times indicated in the program. Vegetarian entrees are available only upon request in advance of the meeting. 

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    Certificate of Participation

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    Meeting Room Policy

    Mask Recommendation

    Face masks are recommended indoors.

    No Photographs and Recording Devices 

    Participants are not allowed to photograph and/or record using cameras, mobile telephones and other recording devices during the slide and poster presentations. 

    Other Information

    Animals are not permitted on site. 

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Wednesday, September 28

07:30 AM - 08:30 AM
Breakfast
Therapeutic Targeting, Immune Evasion and Plasticity
Chair: Soledad Sosa
08:30 AM - 08:55 AM
8
Novel Strategies for In-Situ Tumor Vaccination - Reprograming TIME Evolution via Compartmental Targeting
Amir Abdollahi
08:55 AM - 09:20 AM
9
Optimizing the interaction between immunotherapy and treatments that both directly and indirectly target tumour cells
Michael R Horsman1, Priyanshu M Sinha1, Folefac C Asonganyi1, Søren Nygaard1, Mateusz K Sitarz2, Brita S Sørensen2, and Pernille B Elming1
09:20 AM - 09:45 AM
10
Mechanistic understanding of response and resistance to lysosomal inhibition
Monika Bhardwaj 1, Jennifer J Lee1, Amanda Versace 1, Sandra L Harper 2, Aaron R Goldman 2, Mary Ann Crissey 1, Vaibhav Jain 1, Mahendra Rathore 1, megane vernon 3, Andrew E Aplin 3, Jeffrey D Winkler 1, Qin Liu 2, David W Speicher 2, and Ravi K Amaravadi 1
09:45 AM - 10:10 AM
11
Cell-extrinsic and –intrinsic mechanisms in pancreatic cancer subtype identity and therapy response
Niklas Krebs1, Lukas Klein1, Florian Wegwitz1, Elisa Espinet2, Carlo Maurer3, Mengyu Tu1, Frederike Penz1, Stefan Küffer4, Elisabeth Hessmann1, Andreas Trumpp2, Philipp Ströbel4, Rolf A Brekken5, Volker Ellenrieder1, and Shiv K Singh1
10:10 AM - 10:25 AM
12
Identification of a deubiquitination module essential for Treg fitness in the tumor microenvironment
Deyu Fang
10:25 AM - 11:10 AM
Coffee Break and Poster Viewing
Genome Integrity
Chair: Ester Hammond
11:10 AM - 11:35 AM
13
Hypoxia Tumour Biology and Tumour Genomics-CoDrivers of Tumour Evolution
Robert Bristow
11:35 AM - 12:00 PM
14
Sensing aberrant transcription by MYC oncoproteins
Dimtrios Papadopoulos, Daniel Solvie, Leonie Uhl, Stefanie Ha, and Martin Eilers
12:00 PM - 12:15 PM
15
Quantifying Poly(ADP-Ribose) Polymerase (PARP) in vivo using a non-invasive PARP1 PET tracer
Lilie Lin
Novel Targets in the TME
Chair: Natasha Kyprianou
12:15 PM - 12:40 PM
16
Nerve Growth Factor Regulation of the Gastric Cancer Tumor Microenvironment
Jin Cho, Xiaofei Zhi, Timothy C. Wang, and Sandra Ryeom
12:40 PM - 01:05 PM
17
Pathway analysis including miRNA functional analysis in tissue and cell type contexts
Artemis G. Hatzigeorgoiu
01:05 PM - 01:20 PM
18
Cancer-associated bacteria as a novel component of the tumor microenvironment affecting breast cancer proliferation, metabolism, and immunity
Alana A Arnone, Yu-Ting Tsai, Adam S Wilson, David R Soto-Pantoja, and Katherine L Cook
01:20 PM - 01:40 PM
Special Session: Alexia-Ileana Zaromytidou, Nature Cancer Editor
01:40 PM - 03:00 PM
Lunch and Informal Discussions
03:00 PM - 06:30 PM
Informal Discussions
06:45 PM - 10:30 PM
Dinner and Informal Discussions (Buses depart from Hotel Lobby)