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Projects and events Summer Courses Cancer Biology

Programme

  • 7 August — 11 August 2017

Past

1st Day
14:15 — 14:30
Welcome Speech
14:30 — 16:00
Accelerated approaches for interrogating cancer drivers and dependencies in the mouse
16:00 — 16:30
Tea break
16:30 — 18:00
Mechanisms that generate antibody repertoires and their roles in genome stability and cancers of the adaptive immune system
18:30 — 21:00
Welcome Dinner
2nd Day
09:00 — 10:30
Targeting cancer with synthetic lethality
10:30 — 11:00
Multiple mechanisms of HBx in promoting chromosome instability
11:00 — 11:30
Tea break
11:30 — 12:30
Oral presentations
12:30 — 13:30
Lunch
13:30 — 15:00
Epigenetics stochasticity in normal development and cancer
15:00 — 15:30
PRMT6-dependent CRAF/ERK signalling regulates cancer stem cell plasticity in liver cancer
15:30 — 17:00
Poster session
3rd Day
09:00 — 10:30
The multiple roles of cancer-associated fibroblasts
10:30 — 11:00
Stearoyl-CoA Desaturase regulates sorafenib resistance via modulation of ER stress induced differentiation
11:00 — 11:30
Tea break
11:30 — 12:30
Oral presentations
12:30 — 13:30
Lunch
13:30 — 15:00
Immunotherapy: The fourth pillar of cancer treatment
15:00 — 15:30
Delineating epigenetic alterations in liver cancer
15:30 — 17:00
Poster session
4th Day
Open Symposium
Cheung Kung Hai Lecture Theatre 1
09:30 — 09:45
Opening address
09:45 — 10:30
Tumor suppressor and tumor maintenance genes
10:30 — 11:00
Tea Break
11:00 — 11:45
Recurrent DNA break cluster genes in neural stem and progenitor cells: Implications for brain development, neuropsychiatric disease and cancer
11:45 — 12:30
Targeting cancer with synthetic lethality
12:30 — 14:00
Lunch
14:00 — 14:45
Epigenetics at the crossroad of genetics and environment leading to disease
14:45 — 15:30
Imaging therapy failure
15:30 — 16:00
Tea Break
16:00 — 16:45
Cancer Metabolism: Back to the future
16:45 — 17:00
Closing Remarks
5th Day
Day Trip
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