Escola São Paulo de Ciência Avançada

SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM

September 30^th

16:00 – 17:30                                 Arrival and reception – (Meeting Kit: final program, badge, bag)

Arrival and reception (Meeting Kit: final program, badge, bag)

17:30 – 18:00

Opening ceremony - Silvia R. Rogatto, Maria Lucia Z Dagli, Silvana Artioli Schellini, Marilza Vieira Cunha Rudge

18:45 – 19:45

Carlos Henrique de Brito Cruz –  Introducing  FAPESP

19:45 – 20:45

Opening conference - David Vail – (National Cancer Institute, USA) - Comparative oncology clinical trials: North America experience

19:30 – 21:30

Dinner

October 1^st

08:30 – 09:30

Igor Jurisica (University of Toronto, CAN) - Integrative cancer informatics for the identification of prognostic and predictive biomarkers.

09:30 – 10:30

Toshikazu Ushijima (National Cancer Center Research Institute, Tokyo) – Epigenetic in field cancerization: its cause and clinical implications.

10:30 – 11:00

Coffee break

11:00 – 12:00

Sabine Mai (University of Manitoba, CA) - 3D nuclear organization and genomic instability in cancer.

12:00 – 14:00

Lunch

14:00 – 15:00

Roger Chammas (FM-USP, BR) - Tumors as complex organs: are cancers manageable through the modification of their microenvironment?

15:00 – 16:00

Benedito Mauro Rossi (Hospital do Câncer de Barretos, BR) – Hereditary colorectal cancer.

16:00-16:30                   

Coffee break

16:30- 17:15

Technical Lecture – Adam C. Smith (Intituto de Pesquisa Pelé Pequeno Principe and Mantis Diagnosticos Avançados, BR) – Using Affymetrix OncoScan on Methanol:Acid Fixed Cytogenetic Pellets in a Clinical Cancer Cytogenetic Setting.

17:30-19:00

Poster Presentation – Section I

October 2^nd

08:30 – 09:30

João Lauro Vianna de Camargo (Faculty of Medicine-UNESP - BR) – Chemical carcinogenesis: mode of action to inform quantitative human risk assessment.

09:30 – 10:30

Jan Mol (Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Utrecht University NL) – Comparative cancer breast research, lessons from comparative oncology.

10:30 – 11:00

Coffee break

11:00 – 12:00

Luiz Paulo Kowalski (Hospital AC Camargo, BR) - Human head and neck tumors: new perspectives.

12:00 – 14:00

Lunch

14:00 – 15:00

Carlos Caulin (MD Anderson, USA) – Modeling squamous cell carcinomas development and malignant progression of mice.

15:00 – 16:00

Silvia Regina Rogatto (FMB-UNESP, Botucatu and Hospital AC Camargo, BR) – INCT in Oncogenetics focusing on Hereditary Breast-Colorectal Carcinoma Syndrome.

16:00 - 16:30                   

Coffee break

16:30 - 17:30

Richard Charles Garratt (USP-São Carlos, BR) - Structural biology and cancer.

17:30 - 19:00

Poster presentation – Section II

October 3^rd

08:30 – 09:30

Luisa L. Villa (Instituto Ludwig - Hospital Oswaldo Cruz, BR) - Virus infection and carcinogenesis.

09:30 – 10:30

Holger Kalthoff (University Hospital Schleswig Holstein, GER) – Impact of molecular imaging in preclinical research

10:30 – 11:00

Coffee break

11:00 – 12:00

David Argile (Royal School of Veterinary Studies and Roslin Institute, University of Edinburgh, UK) – Canines and cancer stem cells: dogs helping transform

12:00 – 14:00

Lunch

14:00 – 15:00

Trang Hoang (University of Montreal, CA) – Modelling acute and leukemias in mice: clonal evolution and the emrgence of leukemic stem cells.

15:00 – 16:00

Maria Lucia Zaidan Dagli (School of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Sciences, USP,BR) – Domestic animals as sentinels for environmental carcinogenic agents.

16:00– 16:30

Cofee break

16:30 - 18:00

Oral presentation. – Section I - Chairs: Patricia Pintor dos Reis; Maria Lucia Zaidan Dagli, Carlos Caulin

October 4^th

08:30 – 09:30

Geovanni Dantas Cassali (School of  Veterinary Medicine, UFMG) – Comparative mammary oncology: canine model.

09:30 – 10:30

Charles Theillet (Institut de Recherche en Cancérologie de Montpellier, FR) – Unravel breast cancer heterogeneity: definition of genetic subtypes and evaluation of tumor clonality.

10:30 – 11:00

Coffee break

11:00 – 12:00

Patricia Pintor dos Reis (Faculty of Medicine, UNESP, BR).  Biomarkers of progression, recurrence and metastasis in oral cancer.

12:00 – 14:00

Lunch

14:00 – 15:00

Wan L Lam (University of British Columbia, CA) -  Multi-dimensional omics analysis of tumor genomes.

15:00 – 16:00

Sakari Knuutila (Haartman Institute. University of Helsinki, Finland) – Clinically relevant genetic biomarkers in human malignancies.

16:00 – 16:30                   

Coffee break

16:30 - 17:15

Oral presentation. – Section II – Chairs: Geovanni Dantes Cassali, Robson Carvalho, Trang Hoang.

October 5^th

08:30 – 09:30

James E Trosko (Michigan State University, EUA) - Evolution of energy metabolism, Stem Cells, and Cancer Stem Cells: How the Warburg Hypothesis and Barker Hypothesis might be linked.

09:30 – 10:30

Sandro José de Souza (Instituto Ludwig, BR) - Next-gen bioinformatics: Integrating information on cancer biology.

10:30 – 11:00

Coffee break

11:00 – 12:00

Suzanne Ostrand-Rosenberg University of Maryland, USA) – Inflammation, immune suppression and tumor progression.

12:00 – 14:00

Lunch

14:00 – 15:00

Vilma Regina Martins (Hospital AC Camargo, SP) -  Prion protein signaling as therapeutic target in human tumors – mice immunodefficient model.

15:00 – 16:00

Patricia Ahston-Prolla  (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul)– Hereditary cancer syndromes: opportunities and challenges

16:00 – 16:30                   

Coffee break

16:30 - 17:30

Iscia Lopes Cendes (UNICAMP, BR) – In vivo applications of RNA interference (RNAi)

October 6^th

08:30 – 9:00

Thais Mere Marques Aveiro (CAPES- BR) -  Science without borders program.

9:00 – 10:00

Fernando A. Soares – (Hospital AC Camargo, BR) - Penile cancer in human and animals.

10:00-10:15

Closing ceremony. Silvia R. Rogatto, Maria Lucia Z Dagli, Fernando A Soares, Geovanni D Cassali

12:00  - 13:45

Lunch

14:00 – 18:00

Guided visit to Research Centers