April 9
12:30 ARRIVAL, REGISTRATION and LUNCH
14:00 OPENING REMARKS Organizing committee
14:15 SESSION I: Nerves in cancer Chair: Daniel Öhlund
How the central and peripheral nervous systems regulate cancer development? Claire Magnon
Short talks Alessandro Mega (abstract 1) Elisa Stellaria Grassi (abstract 2) Tracy Berg (abstract 4)
15:30 FIKA and POSTERS
16:00 SESSION II: Chair: Daniel Öhlund
The Microbiome and cancer
The Tumor Microbiome and its Influence on Chemoresistance Leore Geller
Short talk Teresa Frisan (abstract 6)
Targeting cancer
Short talk Ya-Fang Mei (abstract 8)
Developmental pathways and mechanisms
Short talk Milena Petkova (abstract 9)
17:15 SESSION III: New technology and methods to study the microenvironment (Part 1) Chair: Arne Östman Representatives from SciLifeLab Precision Cancer Medicine - beyond genomics Päivi Östling
Characterizing intra-tumoral heterogeneity using in situ sequencing Mats Nilsson
Seeing is believing, measuring is knowing' - quantitative analysis in digital pathology Carolina Wählby
18:30 MINGLE DINNER and POSTERS
April 10
08:30 SESSION IV: Cancer-associated fibroblasts and ECM in cancer Chair: Malin Sund
Role of stromal heterogeneity in immunosupression and metastatic spread in breast cancers Fatima Mechta-Grigoriou
Short talks Annika Nordstrand (abstract 11) Elena Garre (abstract 13) Laia Gorchs (abstract 17) Mercedes Herrera (abstract 19)
10:00 FIKA and POSTERS
10:30 CONT. SESSION IV: Environmentally defined clonogenicity in colon cancer Louis Vermeulen
Short talks Rainer Heuchel (abstract 21) Sofia Halin Bergström (abstract 23) Tommy Lidström (abstract 25) Justin Vareecal Joseph (26)
12:00 LUNCH
13:30 SESSION V: Immune cells and cancer Chair: Kristian Pietras
Mechanism of T cell-mediated tumor rejection Thomas Blankenstein
Short talks Andreas Lundqvist (abstract 27) Artur Mezheyeuski (abstract 28) Sara Corvigno (abstract 29) Susanna Cardell (abstract 30)
15:00 FIKA and POSTERS
16:45 SESSION VI: The vasculature in cancer and beyond Chair: Taija Mäkinen
Tumor-vessel interactions during tumor progression and metastasis Hellmut Augustin
Short talks Elin Sjöberg (abstract 32) Mia Phillipson (abstract 33) Soniya Savant Botla (abstract 35) Ulf Eriksson (abstract 36) Per Larsson (abstract 37)
18:30 CONFERENCE BANQUET
April 11
09:00 SESSION VII: New technology and methods to study the microenvironment (Part 2) Chair: Arne östman Immune-Humanized Mouse Models of Solid Cancer Jonas Nilsson
Short talks Cedric Patthey (abstract 38) Leslie Solorzano (abstract 39) Olga Surova (abstract 40)
10:15 FIKA and POSTERS
10:45 CONT. SESSION VII:
Short talks Andreas Svanström (abstract 41) Emmy Borgmästars (abstract 42)
11:15 CONCLUDING REMARKS Anders Bergh and Organizing committee
12:00 BOX LUNCH and DEPARTURE
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