Wednesday 9th October

14:00 – 16.00  Arrival and buffet lunch

16:00 – 16:15  Welcome

16:15 – 18:30    Session 1  : Cell Signaling in Cancer I (Chair: TBC)

16:15 – 16:50  Chiara Ambrogio, University of Turin, Italy “Signaling plasticity upon therapeutic pressure in cancer cells”.

16:50 – 17:25  Andreas Villunger, MedUni Innsbruck, Austria “Extra centrosomes as barriers against malignant transformation”.

17:25 – 18:00  Ruth Palmer, University of Goteborg, Sweden “The impact of ALK signaling on the metabolic landscape in childhood neuroblastoma”.

18:00 – 18:30  2 x Research talks selected from abstracts 

18:30 – 20:00  Dinner

20:00 – 21:00  The Jacques E. Dumont keynote lecture (Chair: Maria Sibilia)   

                         Ivan Dikic, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany “ER remodelling in health and disease”

21:00           Networking and discussion

Thursday 10th October

09.00 – 13:00    Session 2  : Cancer Metabolism  (Chair: TBC)

09:00 – 09:35   Cristina Munoz-Pinedo , Barcelona, Spain “Metabolic stress driving cell-cell communication in the tumor microenvironment”.

09:35 – 10:10   Ian Mills , University of Oxford, UK “Impacts of OGlcNAc transferase on cancer cell metabolism”.

10:10 – 10:55   3 x Research talks selected from abstracts

10:55 – 11:25  Coffee break

11:25 – 12:00   Stefanie Wculek , IRB Barcelona, Spain “Linking metabolism and anti-cancer functions of dendritic cells”.

12:00 – 12:35   Almut Schulze , DKFZ, Germany “Imbalanced glycolysis as a metabolic vulnerability in cancer”.

12:35 – 13:05   2 x Research talks selected from abstracts

13:05 – 14:30   Lunch

14:30 – 18:30   Networking / Round Table discussion  

18:30 – 20:00  Dinner

20:00 – 21:00   Keynote lecture 2 : (Chair: David Carling)  

                           Eyal Gottlieb  (MD Anderson, USA) “TBC“

   21:00  Poster Session 1 

Friday 11th October

09:00 – 12:20   Session 3  : Cell Signaling in Cancer (Chair: TBC)

09:00 – 9:35  Sabine Werner, ETH Zurich, CH “Parallels between wound healing and cancer – a fibroblast perspective”.

09:35 – 10.10  Alexis Barr, MRC LMS London “Taking control of the cell cycle for cancer therapy”

10:10 – 10:45  Maria Sibilia, Medical University of Vienna, Austria “Microenvironmental factors modulating tumorigenesis”

 10:45 – 11:15  Coffee break

11:15 – 11.50  Guadalupe Sabio, CNIC Madrid, Spain “Metabolic Drivers of Cancer and Obesity-related Diseases”. 

11:50 – 12:20  2 x Research talks selected from abstracts

12:30 – 14:00   Lunch

14.00 – 18.10  Session 3  : Metabolism (Chair: TBC) 

14:00 – 14:35  Emma Evergreen, University of Belfast, UK “Regulation of ER-mitochondria contact sites in prostate cancer”.

14:35 – 15:10  David Carling, MRC LMS London, UK “The role of AMPK in prostate cancer”.

15:10 – 15:40  Coffee break

  15:40 – 16:15  Chantal Thibert, University of Grenoble, France “LKB1-driven metabolic regulations: contribution to development and tumor microenvironment”.

16:15 – 16:50  Mathias Heikenwälder, DKFZ/Univ. Tübingen, Germany “TBC”

16:50 – 17:25  Louise Fets, MRC LMS London “Membrane transporters and their impact in cancer metabolism, drug distribution and therapeutic response”.

17:25 – 18:10 3 x Research talks selected from abstracts

18:30 – 21:00 Gala dinner 

21:00  Poster Session 2