Final Programme
| November 8, 2018 / Thursday | |
| 13:00-15:00 | Registration |
| 15:00-15:45 | Opening ceremony |
| PLENARY LECTURE Chair: Sonja Levanat |
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| 16:00-16:45 | Anton Berns (Netherlands) "Mouse Models of Thoracic Cancers. What Do They Teach Us?" [EACR Sponsored Lecture] |
| 16:45-17:10 | Coffee break |
| SECTION "Cell Signaling Networks" Chairs: Vesna Musani, Ugo Cavallaro |
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| 17:10-17:40 | Ugo Cavallaro (Italy) "Cancer Stem Cells: New Drivers and Mechanisms" |
| 17:40-18:10 | Kristijan Ramadan (UK) "DNA-Protein Crosslink Proteolysis Repair in Premature Ageing and Cancer" |
| Short talks: | |
| 18:10-18:25 | Iva I. Podgorski (Croatia) "The Effect of SIRT3 Expression on Human Breast Cancer Cells in Normoxia and Hyperoxia" |
| 18:25-18:40 | Željka Anzulović (Croatia) "Digital Localization and Quantification of WNT-3A Signalling-edited Target Approach in a 21 Day Murine Model of Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis" |
| 18:40-19:30 | Welcome reception |
| November 9, 2018 / Friday | |
| PLENARY LECTURE Chair: Neda Slade |
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| 9:00-9:45 | Ivan Đikić (Germany) "Ubiquitin and Autophagy Networks in Cancer Pathogenesis" |
| 9:45-10:10 | Coffee break |
| SECTION "Cancer Genomics and Epigenetics" Chairs: Petar Ozretić, Hubert Hackl |
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| 10:10-10:40 | Hubert Hackl (Austria) "Genotype-Immunophenotype Correlation in Cancer" |
| 10:40-11:10 | Rosa Karlić (Croatia) "The Mutation Landscape of Cancers Serves as a Record of Early Malignant Transformation" |
| Short talks: | |
| 11:10-11:25 | Nina Milutin Gašperov (Croatia) "DNA Methylation in Head and Neck Cancer and Oral Lesions" |
| 11:25-11:40 | Filiz Bakar-Ates (Turkey) "Cucurbitacin B Loaded Lipid Polymer Hybrid Nanocarriers Induced a Significant Decrease in Mitochondrial Membrane Potential in Breast Cancer Cells” |
| 11:40-11:55 | Marta Popović (Croatia) "Deciphering DNA-protein Crosslink Repair In Vivo Using Zebrafish Model" |
| 12:00-12:30 | Rok Košir (Slovenia) "Droplet Digital PCR (ddPCR) and the Detection of Somatic Mutations from Liquid Biopsy of Colorectal Cancer Patients" [Lecture sponsored by Labena d.o.o.] |
| 12:30-13:30 | Lunch break |
| 13:30:-14:30 | Poster session |
| SECTION "Metastasis and Invasion" Chairs: Maja Herak Bosnar, Jonathan Sleeman |
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| 15:00-15:30 | Jonathan Sleeman (Germany) "Microenvironmental Regulation of Metastasis" |
| 15:30-16:00 | Erik Sahai (UK) "Novel Mechanisms of Tumor-Stroma Crosstalk" |
| Short talks: | |
| 16:00-16:15 | Julienne K. Münzner (Germany) "Taking Tumor Cells to the Third Dimension: 3D Models to Study Tumor Invasion and Metastasis" |
| 16:15-16:30 | Ana Damjanović (Serbia) "Anticancer Effect of Berberine Against 2D and 3D Cell Culture Models" |
| 16:30-17:00 | Coffee break |
| SECTION "The Hedgehog-GLI Signaling Pathway Minisymposium" Chairs: Maja Sabol, Fritz Aberger |
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| 17:00-17:30 | Peter G. Zaphiropoulous (Sweden) "Hedgehog/GLI Signaling: Targets and Targeting" |
| 17:30-18:00 | Fritz Aberger (Austria) "Targeting Oncogenic Hedgehog Signaling Beyond Smoothened Inhibitors" |
| 18:00-18:30 | Natalia Riobo-Del Galdo (UK) "Non-canonical Hedgehog Signalling: Is It Implicated in Cancer?" |
| 18:30-19:00 | Maja Sabol (Croatia) "The GLI Code in Ovarian Cancer" |
| 19:00-19:30 | Barbara Stecca (Italy) "An Integrated Model of Hedgehog-GLI Molecular Functions in Cancer" |
| November 10, 2018 / Saturday | |
| SECTION "Immuno-oncology" Chairs: Božena Šarčević, Igor Aurer |
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| 9:00-9:30 | Igor Aurer (Croatia) "Immunotherapy of Hematological Malignancies: A Success Story" |
| 9:30-10:00 | Massimo Zollo (Italy) "Targeting Medulloblastoma Metastatic Tumors via Immunomodulation Therapy" |
| Short talk: | |
| 10:00-10:15 | Julia Kargl (Austria) "Neutrophil Elastase Induces Metastatic Phenotype In Vitro and In Vivo" |
| 10:15-10:40 | Coffee break |
| SECTION "Targeted Therapies" Chairs: Paula Podolski, Andreja Ambriović-Ristov |
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| 10:40-11:10 | Andreja Ambriović-Ristov (Croatia) "Characterisation of Integrin alpha V-dependent Adhesome in Tumor Cells" |
| 11:10-11:40 | Paula Podolski (Croatia) "Targeted Therapies for HER2 Positive Metastatic Breast Cancer Patients" |
| Short talks: | |
| 11:40-11:55 | Jelena Grahovac (Serbia) "Repurposing of the Angiotensin Inhibitor Telmisartan for Treatment of Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma and Malignant Melanoma" |
| 11:55-12:10 | Josip Madunić (Croatia) "Anticancer Effects of Apigenin in Human Breast Cancer Cells" |
| KEYNOTE LECTURE Chair: Sonja Levanat |
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| 12:10-13:00 | Joseph Schlessinger (USA) "The Role of Endocrine FGFs in Metabolism and Cancer" |
| 13:00-13:30 | Closing ceremony and best poster awards [Sponsored by EACR] |
