15^th Gliwice Scientific Meetings, November 18-19, 2011

Gliwice, Conference Center of the Silesian University of Technology

Program

Friday 18.XI.2011

9:00 - 9:15 Opening Ceremony

Session I - Mechanisms of metastasis (session organized by EACR members)

9:15 - 9:45 Claudine Kieda (Centre for Molecular Biophysics, UPR 4301 CNRS, Orleans): Tumor angiogenesis normalization in the prevention of metastasis

9:45 - 10:15 Angels Sierra (Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute-IDIBELL, Barcelona): Brain metastasis proteins and their interactions: a rational predictive-biomarkers research

10:15 - 10:45 Ingeborg Tinhofer (Charité Universitätsmedizin, Berlin): Incidence and prognostic role of circulating tumor cells in squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck region

10:45 - 11:15 coffee break

11:15 - 11:45 Ludmila.B. Drobot (Palladin Institute of Biochemistry, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv): The biological role of adaptor/scaffold protein ruk/cin85 in breast carcinogenesis.

11:45-12:15 Marek Los (Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine (IKE), Integrative Regenerative Medicine Center (IGEN), Linköping): Attempts to target cancer stem cells.  Salinomycin as an example

12:15 - 12:45  Maciej Ugorski (Institute of Immunology and Experimental Therapy, PAS, Wrocław): The role of ceramide galactosyceramide (UGT8), new molecular marker of breast cancer malignancy, in cancer progression

12:45 - 14:00 Lunch

Session II- Regulation of gene expression at the transcript level

 14:00 - 14:30 Martin Simard (Laval University, Quebec): Understanding RNA silencing pathways through the Argonaute proteins

14:30 - 15:00 Gunter Meister (Regensburg University, Regensburg): Analysis of Argonaute interactions in mammalian cells

15:00 - 15:30 Petr Svoboda (Institute of Molecular Genetics, ASCR, Prague): Unique regulation of small RNAs during oocyte-to-embryo transition in mammals

15:30 - 16:00 Anna Kurzyńska-Kokorniak, Marek Figlerowicz (Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, PAS, Poznań):  Modulation of microRNA biogenesis by using short oligo-RNA molecules

16:00 - 16:30 coffee break

16:30 - 17:00 Krystian Jażdżewski (Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbus): The role of microRNA sequence variation in thyroid cancer

17:00 - 17:30 Witold Konopka (German Cancer Research Center [DKFZ], Heidelberg): Hypothalamic miRNA suppresses obesity in mice

17:30 - 18:00 Ana Kozomara (University of Manchester): miRBase and the deep-sequencing data

18:00 - 18:30 Kathrin Leppek (ZMBH-DKFZ, Heidelberg): Roquin promotes rapid TNFa mRNA degradation via a stem-loop recognition element

18:30 - 18:50 Joanna Rzeszowska-Wolny (Silesian University of Technology, Gliwice): MicroRNA and RNA oxidative damage

 

20:00 - 23:00 Get-together party

 

Saturday 19.XI.2011

9:30 - 10:00 Meeting of the EACR members

10:00 - 11:00 Poster session and cofee

Session III - Genes and response to radiation: low doses, bystander effects

11:00 - 11:30 Carmel Mothersill (McMaster University, Hamilton): Emerging issues in radiobiology - the impact of non-targeted effects

11:30 - 12:00 Marek K. Janiak (Military Institute of Hygiene & Epidemiology, Warsaw): Antineoplastic effects of low-level exposures to ionizing radiation

12:00 -12:30 Marek Kimmel (Rice University, Houston): Spatial and stochastic effects in models of cell interaction

12:30 - 12:50 Coffee break

12:50 - 13:20 Andrzej Swierniak (Silesian University of Technology, Gliwice): Bystander effect modeling using evolutionary games

13:20 - 13:40 Tomasz Wojdyła (Silesian University of Technology, Gliwice): Investigating the genealogical relationship among  slavs, balts and finns using demographic network model

13:40 - 14:00 Maria Wideł (Silesian University of Technology, Gliwice): Protective bystander effect

14:00 - 15:00 Lunch

15:00 - 15:20 Piotr Widłak (Cancer Center and Institute of Oncology, Gliwice Branch, Gliwice): Radiation-related changes in serum proteome profiles detected by mass spectrometry in blood of patients treated with radiotherapy due to larynx cancer

15:20 - 15:50 Colin Seymour (McMaster University, Hamilton): The Ego, The Id, and Radiotherapy.

15:50 - 16:30 Presentation of best posters and closing ceremony

Last cofee

 

18:30 Excursion to Gliwice radio station