BACR Annual Meeting 2022
Program Registration Abstract Venue Sponsors
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| 9:00 | Registration, poster mounting & coffee |
| 9:30 – 12:15 | MORNING SESSION Chairs: Prof. dr. Geert Berx & Prof. dr. Tom Boterberg |
| 9:30 | Prof. dr. Geert Berx Introduction |
| 9:45 |
Prof. Dr. Jean-Christophe Marine, Laboratory for Molecular Cancer Biology VIB-KU Leuven, Belgium
Dissecting the functional intratumoral heterogeneity in melanoma
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| 10:15 |
Prof Dr. ir. Damya Laoui, Bioengineering Sciences Department, Cellular and Molecular Immunology, VUB, Belgium
Dendritic cells in the tumor microenvironment: which subpopulation to use for cancer therapy?
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| 10:45 | Coffee break & Poster viewing |
| 11:15 | Young investigators: oral presentations of 4 selected abstracts
Immune and microbiota interplay during murine colorectal cancer development and therapy Marie Thorp (UGent) Microenvironment-mediated lipid metabolism reprogramming upon anti-EGFR therapy resistance in squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck Valentin Van Den Bossche (UCLouvain) A mouse model to study melanoma dermal invasion Nina Van Raemdonck (KULeuven) Dynamic quantification of treatment resistant and invasive subclones at single-organoid level reveals the response heterogeneity in pancreatic cancer Maxim Le Compte (UAntwerpen) |
| 12:15 | BACR: general assembly (members only) |
| 12:30 – 14:00 | LUNCH AND POSTER SESSION |
| 14:00 – 16:30 | AFTERNOON SESSION Chair: Prof. dr. Akeila Bellahcène |
| 14:00 | Young investigators: oral presentations of 4 selected abstract
Distinct transcriptional programs in ascitic and solid cancer cells induce different responses to chemotherapy in high-grade serous ovarian cancer Jordy De Coninck (UGent) Immunosuppressive effect of methylglyoxal stress in breast cancer Victoria Mohring (ULiège) S-adenosylmethionine Biosynthesis is a Targetable Metabolic Vulnerability in Multiple Myeloma Yanmeng Wang (VUBrussel) mTORC2 activation drives the reprogramming of lipid metabolism to support lung cancer progression Arnaud Blomme (ULiège) |
| 15:00 | Coffee break |
| 15:30 |
Prof. dr. Jacco van Rheenen, Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Filming the fate of cells that carry mutations in oncogenic driver genes |
| 16:00 | Prof. dr. Katleen De Preter, CRIG, Ghent University
Neuroblastoma: a heterogeneous tumour of childhood
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| 16:30 | Awards ceremony for best oral and poster presentations Concluding remarks |
| 17:00 | End of conference |