NOTICE: The HDIR-6 Meeting has been postponed to November 11-12, 2021.
Preliminary Programme
| November 5, 2020 / Thursday | |
| 13:00-15:00 | Registration |
| 15:00-15:30 | Opening ceremony |
| PLENARY LECTURE Chair: Sonja Levanat |
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| 15:30-16:30 | Iva Tolić (Croatia) "Mitotic Spindle and Errors in Chromosome Segregation" |
| 16:30-17:00 | Coffee break |
| SECTION 1 – NON-MAMMALIAN MODELS OF TUMOR Chairs: Maja Herak Bosnar, |
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| 17:00-17:40 | Krisztina Takacs-Vellai (Hungary) "How to Use C. elegans as a Tumor Model? Characterizing the Biological Function of NM23-H1, the First Metastasis Suppressor Through Its Worm Orthologue" |
| 17:40-18:20 | Vedrana Filić Mileta (Croatia) "Regulation of Ras Activity in Cellular Feeding" |
| Short talks: | |
| 18:20-18:40 | selected from abstracts |
| 18:40-19:00 | selected from abstracts |
| 19:00-20:00 | Welcome reception |
| November 6, 2020 / Friday | |
| SECTION 2 – CANCER BIOMARKERS AND RESISTANCE Chairs: |
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| 9:00-9:40 | Ariana Znaor (France) "Global Cancer Burden and Cancer Surveillance" |
| 9:40-10:20 | Luisa Guerrini (Italy) "Induced Resistance to Thalidomide in Multiple Myeloma Cells" |
| Short talks: | |
| 10:20-10:40 | selected from abstracts |
| 10:40-11:00 | selected from abstracts |
| 11:00-11:20 | Coffee break |
| SECTION 3 – CANCER GENOMICS AND EPIGENOMICS Chairs: Maja Sabol, |
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| 11:20-12:00 | Nenad Bartoniček (Australia) T.B.A. |
| 12:00-12:40 | Daniela Taverna (Italy) "miR-214 in Tumor-Stroma Cell Interactions" |
| Short talks: | |
| 12:40-13:00 | selected from abstracts |
| 13:00-13:20 | selected from abstracts |
| 13:20-14:30 | Lunch break |
| 14:30-15:30 | Poster session |
| 15:30-16:00 | Sponsored Lecture |
| SECTION 4 – SIGNALING NETWORKS I Chairs: Neda Slade, Yari Ciribilli |
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| 16:00-16:40 | Yari Ciribilli (Italy) "ETV7 as a Mediator of Chemoresistance and Cancer Aggressiveness in Breast Cancer" |
| 16:40-17:20 | Neda Slade (Croatia) "The Role of p53 in Melanoma Development and Therapy Resistance" |
| Short talks: | |
| 17:20-17:40 | selected from abstracts |
| 17:40-18:00 | selected from abstracts |
| November 7, 2020 / Saturday |
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| SECTION 5 – SIGNALING NETWORKS II Chairs: |
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| 9:00-9:40 | Paola Defilippi (Italy) "The Adaptor Protein p140Cap Negatively Regulates the Aggressiveness of Breast Cancer and Neuroblastoma: Molecular and Functional Insights" |
| 9:40-10:20 | Sandra Sobočanec (Croatia) "Sirtuin 3 Exerts Its Tumour-Suppressive Role by Stabilizing p53 and Attenuating Response to Estrogen in MCF-7 Cells" |
| Short talks: | |
| 10:20-10:40 | selected from abstracts |
| 10:20-10:40 | selected from abstracts |
| 11:00-11:20 | Coffee break |
| SECTION 6 – CANCER IMMUNOLOGY AND IMMUNOTHERAPIES Chairs: |
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| 11:20-12:00 | Alan Parker (UK) "Development of αvβ6 Selective Precision Immunovirotherapies" |
| 12:00-12:40 | Bojan Polić (Croatia) "The Role of NKG2D in Development of Liver Inflammation and Hepatocellular Carcinoma" |
| Short talks: | |
| 12:40-13:00 | selected from abstracts |
| 13:00-13:20 | selected from abstracts |
| KEYNOTE LECTURE Chair: Sonja Levanat |
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| 13:20-14:20 | Caroline Dive (UK) "Using Circulating Tumour Cells to Assist Small Cell Lung Cancer Research" [Sponsored by EACR] |
| 14:20-14:30 | Closing ceremony and best poster awards sponsored by EACR |
