9th International Conference on Tumor Microenvironment and Cellular Stress: Signaling, Metabolism, Imaging and Therapeutic Targets

Program - Wednesday, September 20

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    Airport

    You want to arrive at the Kalamata International Airport (code: KLX) and take a taxi from the airport to the hotel (~25 EUR). 

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    An accommodation tax of € 4.00 per room night will apply, and will be charged automatically to the individual guest’s extras accounts. 

    Accommodations

    Accommodations for the conference are at the Grecotel Filoxenia.  The hotel is located in the city of Kalamata, 13 km from  Airport.  Please take a taxi from the airport to the conference venue. 

    Arrival and Check-in 

    It is expected that attendees will arrive/check-in after 3:00 PM. Anyone arriving after 10:30 pm on the first day should make alternative dinner arrangements. 

    Conference Venue

    The Grecotel Conference Center is located at the hotel. 

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    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.

    City Tour

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    Breakfast

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Wednesday, September 20

07:30 AM - 08:30 AM
Breakfast
Metabolism in primary and metastatic tumors
Chair: Yi Fan
08:30 AM - 08:55 AM
21
Dissecting the crosstalk of nutrient sensing, stress response signalling and immune evasion
Thales Papagiannakopoulos
08:55 AM - 09:20 AM
22
Selective remodeling of the translatome underlies ketogenesis and diet associated tumor growth
Davide Ruggero
09:20 AM - 09:45 AM
23
Deciphering the Warburg effect: mitochondrial uncoupling reprograms cancer metabolism and epigenome to induce differentiation
Jiangbin Ye
09:45 AM - 10:10 AM
24
Understanding the role of Mitochondria in Cancer and Age
Marcia C. Haigis
10:15 AM - 11:15 AM
Coffee Break and Poster Viewing
Tumor-stroma interactions
Chair: Ioannis Verginadis
11:15 AM - 11:40 AM
25
Tumor-stroma coevolution
Ruth Scherz-Shouval
11:40 AM - 12:05 PM
26
Tumor innervation in cancer progression
Sandra Ryeom
12:05 PM - 12:30 PM
27
Cell - cell interactions in regulation of lung homeostasis, disease and cancer
Carla Kim
12:30 PM - 12:45 PM
28
Tumor-stroma assembloids of lung adenocarcinoma reveal the spatial cell-cell "colocatome”
Gina Bouchard1, Weiruo Zhang1, Irene Li1, Ilayda Ilerten1, Asmita Bhattacharya3, Yuanyuan Li1, Winston Trope4, Joseph B Shrager4, Calvin J Kuo3, Lu Tian1, Amato J Giaccia5,, and Sylvia K Plevritis1
12:45 PM - 01:00 PM
29
Hypoxia shapes the chromatin accessibility changes in glioma-reprogrammed microglial cells
Monika Dzwigonska1, Jakub Mieczkowski2, Bozena Kaminska1, and Katarzyna Leszczynska1
01:00 PM - 01:15 PM
30
Exploring the relationship between the epigenome and metabolism in MYCN-amplified neuroblastoma
Krista M Dalton1, Timothy L Lochmann1, Colin Coon1, Marissa L Calbert1, Mikhail Dozmorov2, Lisa Shock4, Madhu Gowda3, Masoud H Manjili4, and Jennifer Koblinski5
01:15 PM - 01:30 PM
31
Dissecting the role of redox homeostasis and ferroptosis in lung adenocarcinoma
Katherine Wu1,2, Jozef P Bossowski1,3, Toshitaka Nakamura4, Hongyu Ding1,3, Marcus Conrad4, and Thales Y Papagiannakopoulos1,3
01:30 PM - 01:45 PM
32
The inflammatory signals produced by fatty bone marrow promote clonal hematopoiesis driven by DNMT3a
Nathali kaushansky, Naama Zioni, and Liran Shlush
01:45 PM - 03:00 PM
Lunch and Informal Discussions
03:30 PM - 07:30 PM
Cultural Tour - Buses Depart Hotel Lobby
07:30 PM - 10:30 PM
Dinner and Informal Discussions (Buses do not return to hotel prior to dinner)