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