3rd International Conference on Tumor Microenvironment and Cellular Stress

Program

GENERAL INFORMATION

Accommodations

All participants will be staying at the Royal Myconian Hotel, which is located in Elia Beach, 12 km from Mykonos Center, Mykonos Airport, and Port.

 

Arrival and Check-in

It is expected that attendees will arrive/check-in on Sunday after 2:00 PM. Anyone arriving after 10:30 pm on Sunday must make alternative dinner arrangements.

 

Conference Venue

The Royal Myconian Conference Center is located at the hotel. 

 

Posters

Posters should be mounted Sunday, Septemer 21 between 7:00 – 8:00 PM or the following morning before the conference session, on the designated boards and dismounted at the closing of the conference. The dimensions of the boards are 90 cm wide X 120 cm high. Adhesive tape for mounting the posters on the boards will be available at the poster area.

 

Oral Presentations

Speakers are asked to bring their USB flash drive to the reception desk at least 30 minutes prior to the session.  The allocated time for all presentations, unless otherwise indicated, includes five minutes Q&A.

 

Delos Tour

Buses for the city tour will depart from the hotel front lobby on Tuesday, September 24 at 2:30 pm. Badges are required for participation.

 
Breakfast

Breakfast for registered participants and registered accompanying persons will be served at the Royal Myconian Hotel main restaurant during the hours scheduled in this program.

 

Lunches/Informal Discussions

Lunches for registered participants and registered accompanying persons will be served during the times indicated in this program at the main restaurant. Badges are required for admission.

 

Dinners/Informal Discussions

Three of the dinners/informal discussion will be served during the times indicated in the program. Vegetarian entrees are available only upon request in advance of the meeting.  Please contact info@aegeanconferences.org.

 

Internet, Phone, & Computer

Wireless Internet access is located throughout the conference center free of charge during meeting hours. There are computers available in the hotel’s business center for the use of the attendees. Phone service is available for an additional charge from your hotel room.

 

Certificate of Participation

A Certificate of Participation will be distributed to a participant for those sessions that the participant has attended. A participant must attend an entire session to receive credit for that particular session. Late arrivals and early departures from a session will preclude a participant from receiving credit for that session.

 

Other Information

Animals are not permitted on site.

Badges are required for admission to all events.

All Aegean Conferences events are non-smoking.

 

No Photographs and Recording Devices

Participants are not allowed to photograph and/or record using cameras, mobile telephones and other recording devices during the slide and poster presentations.

 

 

 

Sunday, September 21

 

 

 

 

 

6:00 PM – 8:00 PM

 

Conference Registration

 

 

 

 

 

8:00 PM

 

Welcome Reception Dinner/Informal Discussions

 

 

 

 

 

Monday, September 22

 

 

 

 

 

7:30 AM

 

Breakfast

 

 

 

 

 

9:00 AM

 

Welcome / Opening Remarks

 

 

 

 

 

Session I

 

Tumor-stroma interactions

 

 

 

Chairs: Ester Hammond and Adrian Harris

 

9:05 AM

1

Inflammation and cancer: Good cells behaving badly

 

 

 

Lisa Coussens

 

9:30 AM

2

Diverse populations of macrophages promote metastasis

 

 

 

Jeffrey W Pollard

 

9:55 AM

3

The dynamic interplay between extrinsic and intrinsic force regulates cancer progression

 

 

 

Valerie Weaver

 

10:20 AM

4

TBA

 

 

 

Raghu Kalluri

 

10:45 AM

5

Activin promotes Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) 8-induced skin tumorigenesis through alterations in T cells and macrophages

 

 

 

Maria Antsiferova, Aleksandra Piwko-Czuchra, Katharina Birkner, Sigrun Smola, Daniel Hohl, and Sabine Werner

 

10:55 AM

6

Connective tissue growth factor (CTGF) as a therapeutic stromal target in ovarian cancer

 

 

 

Kim Moran-Jones, Rajmohan Murali, David K Chang, Carol W Wong, Sue S Spong, Neville F Hacker, and Goli Samimi

 

 

 

 

 

11:05 AM

 

Coffee Break & Poster Viewing

 

 

 

 

 

Session II

 

Microenvironment effects from tumor initiation to metastasis

 

 

 

Chairs: Lisa Coussens and Amit Maity

 

12:00 PM

7

Regulation of metastasis by scaffolding proteins and lateral receptor activation under hypoxia conditions

 

 

 

Erinn B Rankin, Katherine Fuh, Laura Castellini, Kartik Viswanathan, Elizabeth Finger, Anh Diep, Edward LaGory, David Lindgren, Håkan Axelson, Yu Miao, Mihalis Kariolis, Adam Krieg, and Amato J Giaccia

 

12:25 PM

8

MTDH-SND1 interaction is essential for the expansion and activity of tumor-initiating cells in diverse oncogene- and carcinogen-induced mammary tumors

 

 

 

Yibin Kang

 

12:50 PM

9

Matrix remodelling during tumour progression

 

 

 

Janine T Erler

 

1:15 PM

10

Hypoxia-regulated miRNAs in glioma-initiating cells

 

 

 

Xiao Fan Wang, and Jing Hu

 

1:40 PM

11

Lysyl hydroxylase-2 driven collagen cross-linking and lung cancer metastasis

 

 

 

Masahiko Terajima, Yulong Chen, Yanan Yang, Li Sun, Jonathan Kurie, and Mitsuo Yamauchi

 

1:50 PM

12

Cellular adhesion molecules mediate tumour-host interactions and facilitate brain metastasis

 

 

 

Manuel S Soto and Nicola R Sibson

 

 

 

 

 

2:00 PM

 

Lunch / Informal Discussions

 

 

 

 

 

7:30 PM

 

Dinner / Informal Discussions at a local Greek Taverna

Buses depart from the hotel lobby at 7:30 PM

 

 

 

 

 

Tuesday, September 23

 

 

 

 

 

7:30 AM

 

Breakfast

 

 

 

 

 

Session III

The hypoxic microenvironment: HIF-dependent and HIF-independent pathways

 

 

 

Chairs: Maho Niwa and Nicholas Denko

 

8:30 AM

13

Oxygen sensing in pericytes

 

 

 

Volker H Haase

 

8:55 AM

14

Intertwined regulation of angiogenesis and immunemodulation in cancer progression and resistance

 

 

 

L Rivera, K Lu, J Varner, D Meyronet, and Gabriele Bergers

 

9:20 AM

15

TBA

 

 

 

Lorenz Poellinger

 

9:55 AM

16

The PI3K/mTOR Pathway Regulates Oxygen Metabolism via Pyruvate Dehydrogenase (PDH)-E1αPhosphorylation

 

 

 

George J Cerniglia, Souvik Dey, Shannon M Gallagher-Colombo, Natalie Daurio, Stephen Tuttle, Theresa M Busch, Alexander Lin, Tatiana V Esipova, Sergei A Vinogradov, Constantinos Koumenis, and Amit Maity

 

10:10 AM

17

Hypoxia promotes stem cell phenotypes and poor prognosis through epigenetic regulation of DICER

 

 

 

Twan G van den Beucken, Elizabeth Koch, Kenneth Chu, Rajesha Rupaimoole, Peggy Prickaerts, Michiel Adriaens, Jan Willem Voncken, Adrian L Harris, Francesca M Buffa, Syed Haider, Maud  HW Starmans, Cindy Q Yao, Mircea Ivan, Cristina Ivan, Chad V Pecot, Paul C Boutros, Anil K Sood, Marianne Koritzinsky, and Bradly G Wouters

 

10:35 AM

18

Next generation sequencing of hypoxic tumors reveals alternative splicing as a way to regulate microenvironment

 

 

 

Lauren K Brady, Vladimir M Popov, and Constantinos Koumenis

 

11:00 AM

19

Hypoxia-mediated loss of PHD1 function leads to metabolic transformation and chemoresistance, independently of hypoxia-inducible factors (HIFs)

 

 

 

Giulio Laurenti, Gavin McNee, Tatiana Volpari, Deborah S Williams, Christian Ludwig, and Daniel A Tennant

 

 

 

 

 

11:10 AM

 

Coffee Break

 

 

 

 

 

Session IV

Tumor metabolism

 

 

 

Chairs: Lenka Munoz and Gabriele Bergers

 

11:45 AM

20

Rare Insights Into Cancer Biology

 

 

 

Patrick J Pollard, Ming Yang, Huizhong Su, Julie Adam, and Tomoyoshi Soga

 

12:10 PM

21

Translation makes an impact: Tailor-made protein expression for metabolism, cancer and disease

 

 

 

Davide Ruggero

 

12:35 PM

22

Hypoxic Regulation of glutamine metabolism is necessary for the growth of model tumors

 

 

 

Ramon C Sun, Ioanna Papandreou, Adam Richardson, and Nicholas Denko

 

1:00 PM

23

Functions of metabolic reprogramming in cancer

 

 

 

Dimitrios Anastasiou

 

1:25 PM

24

Glycogen metabolism in hypoxia as a target for cancer therapy

 

 

 

Adrian L Harris

 

1:50 PM

25

Deregulation of lipid droplet dynamics impacts cellular metabolism and tumor growth

 

 

 

Ioanna Papandreou, Shiva Raghuvanshi, and Nicholas Denko

 

2:00 PM

26

Targeting AMP-Kinase to modulate tumour radio-resistance and its microenvironment

 

 

 

Theodoros Tsakiridis

 

 

 

 

 

2:10 PM

 

Lunch / Informal Discussions

 

 

 

 

 

7:30 PM

 

Dinner / Informal Discussions at a local Greek Taverna

Buses depart from the hotel lobby at 7:30 PM

 

 

 

 

 

Wednesday, September 24

 

 

 

 

 

7:30 AM

 

Breakfast

 

 

 

 

 

Session V

 

Stress resistance mechanisms I: Unfolded Protein Response and Integrated Stress Response

 

 

 

Chairs: Ioanna Papandreou and Jay Dorsey

 

9:00 AM

27

Regulation of protein folding in the hypoxic tumor microenvironment

 

 

 

Marianne Koritzinsky

 

9:25 AM

28

Targeting the IRE1α-XBP1 pathway for cancer therapy

 

 

 

Dadi Jiang, Muthu Alagappan, Zhifen Yang, Paul Johannet, Connor Lynch, Quynh T Le, Amato J Giaccia, Nicholas C Denko, Michael Hay, Maho Niwa, and Albert C Koong

 

9:50 AM

29

The Paradox of PERK in Tumorigenesis

 

 

 

J Alan Diehl

 

10:15 AM

30

A tale of two distinct mechanisms for IRE1 RNase and implications for the Cancer treatment

 

 

 

Arvin B Tam, Albert Koong, and Maho Niwa

 

10:40 AM

31

Inhibition of the IRE1α-XBP1 pathway: a new approach to targeting the tumour microenvironment

 

 

 

Michael P Hay, Dadi Jiang, Margaret Kozak, Maho Niwa, and Albert C Koong

 

11:05 AM

32

“The Hallmarks of Cancer” and tumor hypoxia: selective targeting of hypoxic cancer cells with the hypoxia-activated prodrug (HAP) TH-302

 

 

 

Charles P Hart

 

11:30 AM

33

Antimyeloma in vitro activity of 15-deoxy-delta 12,14-prostaglandin J2 is associated with endoplasmic reticulum stress

 

 

 

Ana P Demasi, Marcelo H Napimoga, Elizabeth F Martinez, Adriana S Duarte, Marcelo Sperandio, Ney S Araujo, and Vera C Araujo

 

 

 

 

 

11:55 PM

 

Lunch / Informal Discussions

 

 

 

 

 

2:30 PM

 

Tour to Delos

 

 

 

The busses for the boat tour will depart from the hotel at 2:30 AM

 

 

7:30 PM

 

Dinner / Informal Discussions at the Royal Myconian Hotel

 

 

 

 

 

Thursday, September 25

 

 

 

 

 

7:30 AM

 

Breakfast

 

 

 

 

Session VI

Stress resistance mechanisms II: Autophagy, and cell death/survival decisions

 

 

Chairs: Marianne Koritzinsky and Patrick Pollard

9:00 AM

34

Autophagy inhibition in cancer therapy: Progress and unanswered questions

 

 

Ravi Amaravadi

9:25 AM

35

TBA

 

 

Andrew Thorburn

9:50 AM

36

Hypoxia-induced p53-dependent apoptosis is reliant on transactivation of clinically relevant target genes including negative regulators of AKT

 

 

Ester Hammond

10:15 AM

37

MK2 signaling in glioma: role and targeting

 

 

Lenka Munoz

10:40 AM

38

Poor prognosis of constitutive γ-H2AX expressing triple negative breast cancers is associated with telomere dysfunction

 

 

Paul N Span

11:05 AM

39

Blocking hypoxia-induced autophagy restores natural killer cell-mediated anti-tumor immune response

 

 

Joanna Baginska, Elodie Viry, Guy Berchem, Muhammad Zaeem Noman, Anais Oudin, Simone Niclou, Salem Chouaib, and Bassam Janji

 

 

 

11:15 AM

 

Coffee Break & Poster Viewing

 

 

 

 

 

Session VII

Imaging and targeting the Tumor Microenvironment in clinical modalities

 

 

Chairs: Amato Giaccia and Costas Koumenis

12:00 PM

40

RadVax - Immune Activation of T-cells with Ablative radiotherapy & Immune Checkpoint inhibitors

 

 

Stephen M Hahn, Robert Vonderheide, Amit Maity, John Wherry, and Andy Minn

12:25 PM

41

Precision medicine in oncology: The MD Anderson Cancer Center experience

 

 

Apostolia-Maria Tsimberidou

12:50 PM

42

Imaging cancer heterogeneity with multispectral optoacoustic mesoscopy

 

 

Vasilis Ntziachristos

1:15 PM

43

Circulating glioma tumor cells: detection and potential implications

 

 

MF Cooke, D Saxenna, M Xu, D Steinmetz, X Xu, M Alonso-Basanta, G Kao, S Hahn, R Lustig, and Jay Dorsey

1:35 PM

44

Clinical implications of cancer stem cells in oral cancer metastasis and targeted therapies

 

 

Petros Papagerakis, Li Zheng, Vincenzo Desiderio, Margarite Matossian, Luigi Mele, Li Zheng, Gianpaolo Papaccio, Mark Prince, and Silvana Papagerakis

1:45 PM

45

Depression, biomarkers of inflammation in the serum and tumor microenvironment, and survival in advanced Cancer patients

 

 

Jennifer L Steel, KH Kim, M Antoni, L Butterfield, L Burke, F Penedo, DA Geller, JW Marsh, and A Tsung

 

 

 

2:00 PM

 

Closing Remarks

 

 

 

2:15 PM

 

Lunch / Informal Discussions

 

 

 

8:00 PM

 

Farewell Dinner

 

 

 

Friday, September 26

 

 

 

 

 

7:30 AM

 

Breakfast

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Departure

 

 

 

POSTERS

46

ATRA liposomes targeting to the tumor microenvironment for improved therapeutic efficacies

 

Yuhong Xu, Lieyi Wu, Xiaofei Si, and Anjie Zhen

47

Beyond pH regulation: A role of CA IX in focal adhesion during cell spreading and migration

 

Eliska Svastova, L Csaderova, M Debreova, P Radvak, M Stano, M Vrestiakova, S Pastorekova, and J Kopacek

48

Blockage of hypoxia inducible factor: A comparison between the effect of Silymarin, PX-478 and Celecoxib on tumor growth in mouse model of melanoma

 

Jamshid Hajati, Nasim Kheshtchin, Afshin Namdar, and Morteza Hafezi

49

Blockage of hypoxia inducible factor: A comparison between the effect of Silymarin, PX-478 and Celecoxib on tumor growth in mouse model of melanoma

 

Jamshid Hajati, Nasim Kheshtchin, Afshin Namdar, and Morteza Hafezi

50

Cluster analysis of single-cell calcium traces as a tool for analyzing heterogeneous cell populations

 

Anna M Lipp, Christian Paar, Kata Juhasz, Christoph Ogris, Paul Eckerstorfer, Roland Thuenauer, Jan Hesse, Hannes Stockinger, Gerhard J Schütz, Ulrich Bodenhofer, Zsolt Balogi, and Alois Sonnleitner

51

Expression of HIF-1α and CAIX in relation to hypoxia and metastasis in human cervical carcinoma xenografts

 

Christine Ellingsen, Lise M K Andersen, Kanthi Galappathi, and Einar K Rofstad

52

Fenofibrate as a novel therapeutic adjuvant for targeting glioma stem cells

 

Isabelle M Germano and Emanuela Binello

53

HAUSP regulates hypoxia-induced epithelial-mesenchymal transition and gene transcription through deubiquitination of HIF-1a and induction of specific chromatin modification

 

Han-Tsang Wu, Yi-Chih Kuo, Chi-Hung Huang, Shu-Chun Teng, and Kou-Juey Wu

54

Hypoxia and PHD2&3 regulate cancer-associated fibroblast and remodelling of the tumour microenvironment

 

Chris D Madsen, Jesper T Pedersen, Lukram Babloo Singh, Freja Venning, Thomas R Cox, Erik Sahai, and Janine T Erler

55

Hypoxia enhances cytotoxicity of wedelolactone to breast cancer cells

 

Petr Benes, Tereza Nehybova, Lucia Knopfova, and Jan Smarda

56

Hypoxia leads to tamoxifen resistance

 

Denise A Chan, Merce Padro, Louie J Raymond, Brian V Lananna, and Jen-Tsan Chi

57

Immunotherapy with Mycobacterium indicus pranii (MIP) results in activation of anti tumor immune response and reduction of regulatory T cells in tumor milieu of treated mice

 

Pawan Kumar, and Sangeeta Bhaskar

58

In vivo PET detection of lung metastasis by targeting endothelial VCAM-1

 

Stavros Melemenidis, Veerle Kersemans, Bart Cornelissen, Ruth Muschel, and Nicola Sibson

59

In vivo tumor-targeting strategy of nanoparticles using bioorthogonal copper-free click chemistry

 

Heebeom Koo, Sangmin Lee, and Kwangmeyung Kim

60

Inhibitory effect of succinyl macrolactin A on angiogenesis and tumor growth is mediated through suppression of mTOR activity and HSP90 expression

 

Mi-Yeong Kim, Youra Kang, Jaya Gautam, and Jung-Ae Kim

61

Mesenchymal stem cells are affecting glioblastoma as part of the tumour microenvironment

 

Tamara T Lah, Helena Motaln, Johannes  Schuchhard, Karol Stec, Barbara Breznik, and Henning Ulrich

62

Modulation of immune cells with programmed biomaterials in tumor microenvironments for enhanced anti-tumor Immunity

 

Yong Taik Lim

63

Molecular MRI for the detection of tumour angiogenesis

 

Stavros Melemenidis, Andrew Jefferson, Neil Ruparelia, Danny Allen, Alastair Hamilton, James Larkin, Francisco Perez-Balderas, Sean Smart, Jin Xie, Ruth Muschel, Xiaoyuan Chen, Robin Choudhury, and Nicola Sibson

64

New role of JNKs as suppressors of pancreatic neoplasia

 

Tobias Leibfritz, Roger J Davis, and Jens T Siveke

65

Nitroimidazole radiosensitizers: can we teach old dogs new tricks?

 

Michael P Hay, Jingli Wang, Cho Rong Hong, Muriel Bonnet, Ralph Stevenson, Robert F Anderson, Frederik B Pruijn, Kevin O Hicks, and William R Wilson

66

Notch triggers myeloid reprogramming in murine pancreatic cancer

 

Florian Neff, David G Kirsch, Dieter Saur, Roland Schmid, Mathias F Heikenwälder, and Jens T Siveke

67

Nuclear Cathepsin D acts as a co-regulator of TRPS1-mediated transcription repression in breast cancer: effect on the transcription of genes modulating the tumor micro-environment

 

Anne-Sophie Emmanuelle Bach, Danielle Derocq, Valérie Laurent-Matha, Salwa Sebti, Béatrice Orsetti, Charles Theillet, Laëtitia Linarès, Céline Gongora, Sophie Pattingre, Guillaume Meurice, Frank Kaiser, Christian Gespach, and Emmanuelle Liaudet-Coopman

68

Perineural Microenvironment: GDNF secreted by M2 macrophages induces perineural invasion in Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma

 

Moran Amit, Yoav Binenbaum, and Ziv Gil

69

Role of Sod2 in pancreatic carcinogenesis

 

Christin Ruoff, Henrik P Einwächter, and Roland M Schmid

70

Serum Amyloid A activates lymphocytes and inhibits melanoma cells proliferation

 

Luziane P Belle, Silvana Sandri, Franciele H Knebel, Renata Albuquerque, Silvya Stuchi Maria-Engler, and Ana Campa

71

S-adenosylmethionine (SAM) blocks osteosarcoma cells proliferation and invasion in vitro and tumor metastasis in vivo

 

Surabhi Parashar, David Cheishvili, Ani Arakelian, Zahid Hussain, Imrana Tanvir, Haseeb Ahmed Khan, Moshe Szyf, and Shafaat A Rabbani

72

The inhibition of tumor cell proliferation and motility by fibroblasts is both contact and soluble factor dependent

 

Twana Alkasalias, Emilie Flaberg, Vladimir Kashuba, Andrey Alekseenko, Tatiana Pavlova, Andrii Savchenko, Laszlo Szekely, George Klein, and Hayrettin Guven

73

The recurrence pattern following delayed breast reconstruction after mastectomy for breast cancer suggests a systemic effect of surgery on occult dormant micrometastases

 

Hanna Dillekås, Renate Vik, Martin Pilskog, Jörg Assmus, Geir Kleppe, and Oddbjørn Straume

74

The role of Rho/ROCK/MLC signaling in regulation of amoeboid phenotype, invasiveness and metastasis

 

Jan Kosla, Daniela Paňková, Jiří Plachý, Ondřej Tolde, Kristýna Bicanová, Michal Dvořák, Daniel Rösel, and Jan Brábek

75

Expression pattern of carbonic anhydrase IX in medullary thyroid carcinoma supports a role for RET-mediated activation of HIF pathway

 

Martina Takacova, Petra Bullova, Veronika Simko, Pavel Babal, Juraj Kopacek, Jaromir Pastorek, Seppo Parkkila, and Silvia Pastorekova

76

Carnosine as a potent inhibitor of the carbonic anhydrase IX-mediated extracellular acidosis

 

Veronika Simko, Zuzana Ditte, Peter Ditte, Martina Labudova, Filippo Iuliano, Miriam Zatovicova, Lucia Csaderova, Juraj Kopacek, Silvia Pastorekova and Jaromir Pastorek

77

Proteome profiling of primary & metastatic exosome populations reveal known secreted modulators of

the metastatic niche
David W. Greening, Hong Ji, Richard J Simpson

78

Exosomes: Purification and characterization of discrete membrane vesicles from the tumour secretome
David W. Greening, Hong Ji, Richard J Simpson