Cell signalling

Thursday - Friday  29 - 30 November 2007

Venue: The Royal Society of Medicine, 1 Wimpole Street, London, W1G 0AE

A joint meeting with the British Association of Cancer Research

This meeting will bring together scientists and clinicians who are either working on or are interested in learning about cell signalling in cancer therapeutics.
Key speakers from across North America and Europe who work in both university and pharmaceutical backgrounds will provide the latest information in this hot area of new science.
Our two day international meeting will have sessions focused on receptors, mTOR / S6 kinase, BRaf/MEK/Erk, JAK/STAT, PI3K/apoptosis and Src/migration signalling.
Each session will have a biology component followed by a clinical translation talk.

Registration Details:
RSM/BACR Member: £120
RSM Trainee: £100
RSM/BACR Student member: £80
RSM/BACR Non member: £240
Trainee/Nurse/AHP: £150
Student: £100
Dinner: £50

Meeting ref: OG-E10-2


Submit your abstracts

Thursday 29 November 2007

8.30 am

Registration, tea and coffee

Receptors
Chair: Sue Burchill

9.00 am

Targeting VEGF and VEGFR
Sue Burchill (Leeds, UK)

9.30 am

EGFR and differences between antagonists
John Kuriyan (Berkeley, US)

10.00 am

EGFR antagonists - response in the clinic
Frances Shepherd (Toronto, Canada)

10.30 am

Tea and coffee break

S6Ks + mTOR
Chair: Michael Seckl

11.00 am

mTOR/S6Ks
George Thomas (Cincinnati, US)

11.30 pm

mTOR signalling and oncogenesis
John Blenis (Boston, US)

12.00 pm

mTOR/S6Ks as clinical targets
Michael Seckl (London, UK)

12.30 pm

Lunch

1.30 pm

4 (15 minute talks) to be selected from submitted abstracts

2.30 pm

Poster Session with Tea and Coffee

JAK/STAT
Chair: Ana Costa-Pereira

3.30 pm

JAK/STAT signalling: canonical and novel signalling pathways
Ana Costa-Pereira (London, UK)

4.00 pm

STAT1: tumour suppressor oncogene?
Veronica Sexl (Vienna, Austria)

4.30 pm

The role of STAT3 in oncogenesis
Heike Hermanns (Aachen, Germany)

5.00 pm

JAK2 mutations and human haematological malignancies
Tony Green (Cambridge, UK)

5.30 pm

Drinks Reception

7.00 pm

Conference dinner (for those who have pre-booked)
Friday 30 November 2007

8.30 am

Registration, tea and coffee

RAF/MEK
Chair: Olivier Pardo

9.00 am

MAPK network topology shapes Erk response in PC-12 cell fate decision
Philippe Bastiaens (Dortmund, Germany)

9.30 am

B-Raf biology - novel antagonists
Richard Marais (London, UK)

10.00 am

Role of translational biology in MEK inhibitor development
Judith Sebolt-Leopold (Ann Arbor, US)

10.30 am

Tea and coffee break

Apoptosis
Chair: Julian Downward

11.00 am

PI 3-kinase signalling pathways in cancer
Julian Downward (London, UK)

11.30 am

Bcl-2 family inhibitors for the treatment of cancer
Stephen Fesik ( Abbott Park, US)

12.00 pm

PI3 kinase and Hsp90 inhibitors
Paul Workman (The Institute of Cancer Research, Sutton, UK)

12.30 pm

P53 and novel therapies
Karen Vousdon (Glasgow, UK)

1.00 pm

Lunch

Migration
Chair: Margaret Frame

2.00 pm

Src biology - a target for new cancer therapies
Margaret Frame (Glasgow, UK)

2.30 pm

Rho GTPases, actomyosin contractility and cell migration
Chris Marshall ( London, UK)

3.00 pm

Title (to be confirmed)
George Demetri (Boston, US)

3.30 pm

Key note Lecture - A systems biology approach to drug development and implementation
Gordon B Mills (Houston, US)

4.00 pm

Close of meeting, tea and coffee served

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