Final Programme / Book of Abstracts is available HERE

November 10, 2022 / Thursday
13:00-15:00Registration
15:00-15:30Opening ceremony
PLENARY LECTURE
Chair: Sonja Levanat
15:30-16:20Iva Tolić (Croatia)
"Chromosome Segregation Apparatus and Cancer"
SECTION 1 – NON-MAMMALIAN MODELS OF TUMOR
Chairs: Maja Herak Bosnar, Krisztina Takacs-Vellai
Invited speakers:
16:20-16:50Krisztina Takacs-Vellai (Hungary)
"How to Use C. elegans as a Tumor Model?"
16:50-17:20Vedrana Filić Mileta (Croatia)
"Regulation of Ras Activity in Cellular Feeding"
17:20-17:40Coffee break
KEYNOTE LECTURE
Chairs: Sonja Levanat, Engin Ulukaya
17:40-18:30Daniel Peeper (Netherlands)
"Rational Concepts for Tumor & Immune Cell Therapy Combinations" [EACR Sponsored Lecture]
18:30-19:30Welcome reception
November 11, 2022 / Friday
SECTION 2 – CANCER BIOMARKERS AND RESISTANCE
Chairs: Neda Slade, Vesna Musani
Invited speakers:
9:00-9:30Ariana Znaor (France)
"Global Cancer Burden and Cancer Surveillance"
9:30-10:00Mitchell Levesque (Switzerland)
"ROS Induction as a Strategy to Target Persister Cancer Cells with Low Metabolic Activity"
Short talks:
10:00-10:20Ignacija Vlašić (Croatia)
"Unique Hallmarks of Targeted Therapy Resistant Melanoma Cell Lines"
10:20-10:40Margareta Pernar Kovač (Croatia)
"The mIR-200c/TUBB3 Regulatory Axis is Part of the Cellular Stress Response to Carboplatin in Drug-resistant Ovarian Cancer Cell Lines"
10:40-11:00Miodrag Vuković (Serbia)
"Antimelanoma Potential of New Telmisartan Analogues Without AT1 Receptor Activity"
11:00-11:20Coffee break sponsored by Gorea Plus d.o.o.
SECTION 3 – CANCER GENOMICS AND EPIGENOMICS
Chairs: Sandra Sobočanec, Bato Korać
Invited speakers:
11:20-11:50Bato Korać (Serbia)
"A New Look at the Warburg Effect of Breast Cancer"
11:50-12:20Daniela Taverna (Italy)
"miR-214 Mediated Stroma-Tumor Cell Crosstalk During Tumor Progression"
Short talks:
12:20-12:40
Hattie Ollerton (UK)
"PTCH1 as a Novel Β-arrestin Target Suggests a Regulatory Role in Non-canonical Hedgehog Signalling"
12:40-13:00Gordana Bubanović (Croatia)
"Liquid Biopsy for Detection of Resistance Mutation T790M in EGFR Gene From Lung Cancer Patients"
13:00-13:20Chanchai Boonla (Thailand)
"H4K20me3 Upregulated by Reactive Oxygen Species is Associated With Tumor Progression and Poor Prognosis in Patients With Hepatocellular Carcinoma"
13:20-14:30
Lunch break
14:30-15:30
Poster session
SPONSORED LECTURE
15:30-16:00Agnieszka Ciesielska (Poland)
"Single-Cell Sequencing" [Lecture sponsored by Labena d.o.o.]
SECTION 4 – SIGNALING NETWORKS I
Chairs: Petar Ozretić, Yari Ciribilli
Invited speakers:
16:00-16:30Yari Ciribilli (Italy)
"ETV7 as a Mediator of Chemoresistance and Cancer Aggressiveness in Breast Cancer"
16:30-17:00Neda Slade (Croatia)
"The Role of p53 Family in Melanoma Development and Therapy Resistance"
Short talks:
17:00-17:20Anđela Horvat (Croatia)
"Reciprocal Regulation of p21 and Chk1 Controls the Cyclin D1-RB Pathway to Mediate Senescence Onset After G2 Arrest"
17:20-17:40Matea Kurtović (Croatia)
"Unique and Overlapping Transcriptional Targets of GLI1, GLI2 and GLI3 in Melanoma Cell Lines"
17:40-18:00Nives Pećina-Šlaus (Croatia)
"Tracking Molecular Actors of Progression in Intracranial Meningioma"
November 12, 2022 / Saturday
SECTION 5 – SIGNALING NETWORKS II
Chairs: Andreja Ambriović Ristov, Sandra Sobočanec
Invited speakers:
9:00-9:30
Paola Defilippi (Italy)
"The Adaptor Protein p140Cap Negatively Regulates the Aggressiveness of Breast Cancer and Neuroblastoma: Molecular and Functional Insights"
9:30-10:00Sandra Sobočanec (Croatia)
"Sirtuin 3 Exerts Its Tumour-Suppressive Role by Stabilizing p53 and Attenuating Response to Estrogen in MCF-7 Cells"
Short talks:
10:00-10:20Anja Rac (Croatia)
"Focal and Reticular Adhesions Composition in Melanoma Cell Lines MDA-MB-435S and RPMI-7951"
10:20-10:40Marija Ljubojević (Croatia)
"Sex and Age-related Changes in Kidney and Liver Expression of Inducible Metallothioneins in Correlation With Essential and Toxic Trace Elements Accumulation: Influence of Antioxidants"
10:20-10:40Marija Tomić (Croatia)
"TLN2 and KANK2 Are Potential Targets for Enhanced Sensitivity to Paclitaxel Treatment in MDA-MB-435S Cells"
11:00-11:20Coffee break
SECTION 6 – CANCER IMMUNOLOGY AND IMMUNOTHERAPIES
Chairs: Maja Sabol, Maja Sirotković-Skerlev
Invited speakers:
11:20-11:50Alan Parker (UK)
"Development of αvβ6 Selective Precision Immunovirotherapies"
11:50-12:20Bojan Polić (Croatia)
"The Role of NKG2D in MAFLD Pathogenesis"
Short talks:
12:20-12:40Beata Halassy (Croatia)
"Neoadjuvant Oncolytic Virotherapy of a Localized Breast Cancer Recurrence: A Case Study"
12:40-13:00Dora Knezović (Croatia)
"The Contribution of TLR4 and MYD88 to Bladder Cancer Development"
13:00-13:20Muhlis Akman (Italy)
"TFEB Drives Chemo-immuno-resistance in Lung Cancer"
13:20-13:40Closing ceremony and best poster awards [Sponsored by EACR]