Tetntative Program
ACTC 2014 TENTATIVE PROGRAM
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DAY 1: Wednesday, October 8 |
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| Time | Session/Title | Confirmed Speaker |
| Wednesday October 8 9:00 – 12:00 Plenary Lecture Session 1: Recent Advances in the biology of metastasis |
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| 7:30 – 8:30 | Registration | |
| 8:30 – 9:00 | Welcome address Chairperson’s Opening Remarks |
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| 9:00 – 9:30 PL1-1 |
KEYNOTE LECTURE: CTC vs. ctDNA – Which is More Informative? Klaus Pantel, Professor, Director, Institute of Tumour Biology, Centre of Experimental Medicine, University Medical Centre Hamburg Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany |
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| 9:30 – 10:00 PL1-2 |
Epithelial cell plasticity in the control of carcinoma cell dissemination | Jean Paul Thiery, Professor, Head of Department. Department of Biochemistry, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore |
| 10:00 – 10:30 PL1-3 |
Ectopic evolution of disseminated cancer cells | Christoph A. Klein, Professor, Head, Division of Oncogenomics, Department of Pathology, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Networking Coffee Break in the Exhibition Hall | |
| 11:00 – 11:30 PL1-4 |
Mechanisms of disseminated tumor cell dormancy: an awakening field | Julio Aguirre-Ghiso, Professor Mount Sinai School of Medicine New York, USA |
| 11:30 – 12:00 PL1-5 |
A newly discovered metastasis suppressor in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma | Danny R. Welch,Professor & Chair, Department of Cancer Biology, KU Cancer Center, Kansas, USA |
| 12:00 – 13:00 | Lunch Break - Exhibition visit | |
| 13:00 – 14:30 | ORAL PRESENTATIONS Session 1: (Oral Presentations, Speakers selected from submitted abstracts) |
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| 14:00 – 15:30 | POSTER SESSION 1: Recent Advances in the biology of metastasis | |
| 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 |
Circulating Metastasis Initiating Cells in Breast Cancer | Andreas Trumpp,Professor and Head of the Department for Cell Biology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) Heidelberg, Germany |
| 16:30 – 17:00 PL2-2 |
Inflammatory signature and breast cancer stem cells | Hasan Korkaya Assistant Professor at Georgia Regents University Cancer Center, Georgia, USA |
| 17:00 – 17:30 PL2-3 |
KEYNOTE LECTURE: Molecular regulators of a normal and malignant stem cells 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: “Molecular characterization of circulating breast cancer stem cells.” 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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