17^th Gliwice Scientific Meetings, November 15-16, 2013

Scientific Program

 

Friday,  November 15^th, 2013

9.00 - 9.15                  Opening Ceremony

9.15 - 11.00                Session I

Regulation of gene expression and replication

Chairman: Ronald Hancock

Anke van den Berg (University of Groningen, Netherlands): The role of microRNAs in B cell Hodgkin and non-Hodgkin lymphoma

Joost Kluiver (University of Groningen, Netherlands): Long noncoding RNAs: novel players
in B-cell lymphoma

Małgorzata Czyż (Medical University of Łódz, Poland): Heterogeneity of melanospheres: therapeutic implications

Krzysztof Puszyński (Silesian University of Technology, Poland):  Dynamics of intracellular processes

11.00 - 11.15              Coffee break

11.15 - 12.30              Session II

Cellular pathways driven by reactive oxygen species    

Chairwoman: Joanna Rzeszowska

Sebastian Student (Silesian University of Technology, Poland): Reactive oxygen species
in the nucleus and cell death

Carmel Mothersill (McMaster University, Canada): Radiation-induced non-targeted effects: horizontal and vertical transmission of genetic change mediated by oxidative stress?

Barbara Tudek (Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Poland): Lipid peroxidation modulates DNA repair and sensitizes cells to genotoxic factors

Natasha Kopitar (Josef Stefan Institute, Slovenia): Deletion of stefin B gene enhances mitochondrial ROS formation and Nlrp3 inflammasome activation

12.30 - 14.00              Poster session and lunch

14.00 - 16.00              Session III

DNA repair in aging and cancerogenesis

Chairwoman: Barbara Tudek

Leon H Mullenders (Leiden University, Netherlands): Spot on the DNA damage response:
from lesion  recognition to human disease and therapy

Wojciech Niedzwiedz (Oxford University, Great Britain): blm collaborates with topbp1
in promoting checkpoint activation and replication fork stability

Miroslav Pirsel (Cancer Research Institute, SAS, Slovakia): DNA repair helicase –
the story with an unexpected end

Grażyna Mosieniak (Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, Poland): DNA damage response
in cancer cell senescence

16.00 - 16.15           Coffee break

16.15 -18.15            Session IV

Cancer proteomics and metabolomics (session co-organized by Polish Society of Proteomics)

Chairman: Piotr Widłak

Corinna Henkel (Ruhr University, Germany): MALDI imaging in clinical research: searching for the holy grail

Angels Sierra (IDIBAPS, Spain): Proteins and protein-protein interacting motifs to therapeutic target of metastasis

Tone F. Bathen (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway): Metabolic profiling of breast cancer

André Goffeau (Institut des Sciences de la Vie, Belgium): Targeting selectively the unique energy metabolism of cancer with a small molecule inhibitor

 

18.15 – 18.30             Company presentation

Andrzej Swinarew (SHIM-POL, Poland): The instrumental analysis of novel polymeric materials
for bioapplications

 

20.15 -                        Reception/social event

Saturday,  November 16^th, 2013

9.00 - 12.30                Session V

Dietary factors in cancer prevention (session co-organized by European Association for Cancer Research)

Chairwoman:  Wanda Baer-Dubowska

Wanda Baer-Dubowska (Poznan University of Medical Sciences, Poland): Diet and cancer:
from epidemiological data to mechanism-based cancer prevention

Adriana Albini (IRCCS MutiMedica, Italy): The tumor microenvironment as target for cancer therapy and prevention by dietary components

Karen Brown (University of Leicester, UK): Development of resveratrol for cancer chemoprevention.

Albena Dinkova-Kostova (University of Dundee, UK): Chemoprevention against cancer
by isothiocyanates

10.30 - 11.15              Meeting of the Polish EACR Group and coffee break

Jędrzej Antosiewicz  (Gdańsk University of Medical Sciences, Poland) Chemoprevention  of prostate cancer by organosulfur compounds from garlic

Wim Vanden Berghe (University Antwerp, Belgium): Promises & challenges in epigenetic remodeling of breast cancer metastasis by natural withanolides from Withania somnifera (Ashwagandha)

Agnieszka Bartoszek (Gdańsk University of Technology, Poland) Discoveries of experimental chemoprevention - how to exploit them in rational design of health quality and therapeutic foods

12.30 - 12.45              Coffee break

12.45 - 13.30              Awarded Posters’ Presentation

13.30 - 14.15              Lunch

14.15 - 17.00              Session VI

Cancer killing

Chairman: Marek Los

Sun Xiao-Feng (Linkoping University, Sweden): Biomarkers in colorectal cancer

Marek Los (Linkoping University, Sweden ): Salinomycin – experimental drug with preferred toxicity towards cancer stem cells, the role of autophagy in salinomycin toxicity

Nikolaos Sfakianakis (University of Mainz, Germany): Numerical study of cancer invasion
of extracellular matrix

15.30 - 15.45              Coffee break

Katrina Erenpreisa (University of  Riga, Latvia): senescence, polyploidy, and stemness – three components of the response of tumour cells to dna damage

Kourosh Lotfi (Linkoping University, Sweden): P-glycoprotein transport of the active imatinib metabolite, cgp74588, in chronic myeloid leukemia cells

Jerzy Pieczykolan (ADAMED, Poland): Evaluation of novel, anticancer, targeted fusion biomolecule with high antiangiogenic and cytotoxic activity – summary of preclinical findings

17.00                          Closing remarks