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BACR 60th Anniversary Meeting

Programme

26th June

Day 1

 

 

1200

Registration Lunch and refreshments

1300

Welcome Address – Julian Downward

1315

Opening Keynote:

Charles Swanton (Francis Crick Institute, London)

Cancer evolution, immune evasion and metastasis

 

 

Session 1: New Technologies, Engineering and Imaging

Chairs:  Richard Bayliss and Charlotte Bevan

1400

BACR/AstraZeneca Frank Rose Award Talk

Vivian Li (Francis Crick Institute, London

Colorectal cancer targeting and intestinal bioengineering

1430

Tony Ng (King’s College London)

Integrative imaging-OMIC combination approach to probe tumour cell/microenvironment changes for recurrent cancer detection and treatment

1500

 

 

1515

Greg Wells (Sheffield)

Utilising ex vivo imaging to measuring drug action at the single cell level using a live biopsy

Pamela Collier (Nottingham)

Bioluminescent labelling of patient-derived xenografts to enable monitoring of orthotopic and metastatic growth

   

1530

Afternoon tea/coffee

 

 

 

 

1600

Carolyn Moores (Birkbeck, University of London)

Studying the microtubule mitotic machinery using cryo-EM

1630

Faith Howard (University of Sheffield)

BACR/Astex Pharmaceuticals Roger Griffin Prize for Drug Discovery

Nanobugs as Drugs: Bacterial Derived Nanomagnets Enhance Tumor Targeting and Oncolytic Activity of HSV-1 Virus

1700

Zoltan Takats (Imperial College London)

Molecular interaction network-based disease models: Outlines of a coherent and  comprehensive cancer care system

 

1730

 

 

1900

Welcome drinks and finger buffet                                              

Sponsored by Worldwide Cancer Trials  

Poster Session 1 (Even Numbers)

 

Speakers Dinner

27th June

Day 2

Session 2: Tumour Microenvironment and Immunotherapy

Chairs: Robert Wilkinson and Anna Grabowska

0830

Gareth Thomas (Southampton)

Targeting cancer-associated fibroblasts to overcome immunotherapy resistance

0900

Ilaria Malanchi (Francis Crick Institute, London)

Neutrophils nurturing the tumour microenvironment

 

0930

Timothy Budden (University of Manchester)

BACR Chris Marshall Prize for Cell Signalling

Sex and ageing in skin cancer

1000

Martina Brucoli (Glasgow)

Addressing a non-cell autonomous tumour suppressive role for Dram1 in inflammation-induced colorectal cancer

1015

Claire Reader (F-Star Therapeutics, Babraham)

FS118, a novel LAG-3/PD-L1 bispecific antibody, reduced cell-surface LAG-3 and induced LAG-3 shedding through tetravalent target binding

 

 

1030

Tea/Coffee

 

 

1100

Ignacio Melero (University of Navarra, Spain)

IL-8 and NETs in cancer

1130

Christophe Caux (Lyon Cancer Research Centre, France)

Dendritic cells and NK cells in tumor immune surveillance”

 

 

12.00

Lunch Posters and Exhibition           

              

(12.10 to 12.30  Commercial Workshop Given by  Greiner)

 

 

 

Session 3: Resistance to Therapy

Chairs: Isabel Pires and Kevin Ryan

 

1330

 

 

Ester Hammond (Oxford)

Targeting the hypoxia-induced DNA damage response

1400

Mike Hemann (MIT, Cambridge, USA)

Understanding Resistance to Cell-Based Immunotherapy

 

1430

Martin Miller (AstraZeneca, Cambridge)

Clinical and molecular features of acquired resistance to immunotherapy in non-small cell lung cancer

1445

Deborah Caswell (Francis Crick Institute, London)

The role of APOBEC3B in lung tumour evolution and targeted therapy resistance

 

   
   

1500

Tea/Coffee

 

 

1530

Anthony Letai (Dan-Farber, Boston USA)

Measuring mitochondrial apoptotic signaling to direct patient care

1600

Thomas Helleday (Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm)

Targeting DNA repair through metabolism

1630

Val Macaulay (Oxford)

Investigating IGFs as mediators of therapy resistance

1700

 

 

1900

Drinks Reception

Poster Session 2 (Odd Numbers)

 

Conference Dinner

28th June

Day 3

Session 4: Signalling Networks

Chairs:  Amanda Harvey and Claire Perks

0830

Angel Nebreda (IRB Barcelona, Spain)

Exploring tumor vulnerabilities by targeting stress kinase signaling

0900

Stephen Tait (Beatson, Glasgow)

Targeting cell death associated inflammation in cancer

0930

Natalia Riobo-DelGaldo (Leeds)

PTCH1 C-terminal domain mutations enhance colon cancer tumorigenesis

0945

Sabrina Zema (Sapienza University, Rome, Italy)

Identification of Maml1 as a novel negative regulator of Itch E3

1000

Dafna Bar-Sagi (New York University, USA)

 

1030

Manolis Pasparakis (Cologne, Germany)

Inflammatory signalling in small cell lung cancer

 

 

1100

Tea/Coffee

 

 

1130

Len Stephens (Babraham)

Signalling via PI3Ks and Plekhs1 in a mouse model of prostate tumour progression

 

 

 

Session 5:  Disruptive Science and the future

Chairs:  Barry Davies and Simon Dovedi

1200

Bernd Bodenmiller (Zurich, Switzerland)

 

 

12.30

Highly multiplexed imaging of tissues with subcellular resolution by imaging mass cytometry

Nicholas Brittain (Newcastle)

Combining novel CRISPR-Cas13 & proximity biotinylation methods for proteomic identification of AR-V7 mRNA splicing regulators in castrate resistant prostate cancer

12.45

Megan Cole (Francis Crick Institute, London)

Spatial proteomic analysis of a NSCLC model revealed regulatory T cells as mediators of KRAS-G12C-inhibitor-dependent immune response

 

   

1300

Lunch Posters and Exhibition

1400

 

1430

Nitzan Rosenfeld (Cambridge)

Expanding roles of liquid biopsies for cancer diagnostics

Raj Chopra (ATP, London)

Reprogramming protein homeostasis using small molecule modulators of E3 ligases

   

1500

George Poulogiannis (The Institute of Cancer Research, London)

BACR/AstraZeneca Frank Rose Award (2022)

Dissecting the role of metabolism and nutrition in P13K-induced

oncogenicity

1530

Tea/Coffee

1600

Closing Keynote:

 

Kevan Shokat (UCSF,USA)

Overcoming the Undruggable Nature of Oncogenic K-Ras

1645

Closing Remarks, Proffered Paper Awards Given

1700

Meeting Closes

 

 
 

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NTU Events and Conferencing, Nottingham, UK : 26 - 28 June 2022

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