All day: participants’ arrival and registration – Posters display

19:00
welcome reception

20:30
DINNER

SESSION I:
(Chairs: D. Bonnet – M.A.S. Moore)

8:30-9:00
Giovanni Morrone
(University of Catanzaro Magna Græcia, Catanzaro, Italy)
Normal and malignant stem cells: new avenues, and open questions

9:00-9:40
Maarten van Lohuizen
(The Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, the Netherlands)
Targeting cancer stem cells -implications for development of more effective therapies

9:40-10:20
Tsvee Lapidot
(D ept. of Immunology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel)
SDF-1/CXCR4 interactions regulate motility and proliferation of normal and leukemic human stem cells in chimeric NOD/SCID mice

10:20-10:50
COFFEE BREAK

10:50-11:30
Dominique Bonnet
(London Research Institute, Lincoln's Inn Fields Laboratories, London, UK)
Normal and leukaemic Stem Cells: What's new?

11:30-12:10
Malcolm A.S. Moore
(Dept. of Cell Biology, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY-USA)
NUP98 disruption in hematopoietic malignancies

12:10-12:50
Claus Nerlov
(EMBL Monterotondo -Mouse Biology Unit, Monterotondo, Italy)
C/EBPalpha in development and leukemia

12:50-13:05
Selected poster presentation: J.J. Schuringa (11)

13:05-13:20
Selected poster presentation: D. B. Krimer (8)

13:20-13:35
Selected poster presentation: A. Leutz (10)

13:40-15:00
LUNCH

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SESSION II
(Chairs: R. Mertelsmann –M. Engelhardt)

15:00-15:40
Tessa L. Holyoake
(Section of Experimental Haematology, University of Glasgow, Glasgow,UK) Characterisation and attempts to eradicate cancer stem cells in CML

15:40-16:20
Francesco Frassoni
(Centro Cellule Staminali e Terapia Cellulare, Ospedale San Martino, Genova Italy) Attempts to identify the tumor burden in CML patients during treatment with Imatinib

16:20-16:35
Selected poster presentation: M. Copland (6)

16:35-17:15
Allison Blair
(Bristol Institute for Transfusion Sciences, Bristol, UK)
Origins of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukaemia

17:15-17:30
Selected poster presentation: S. Bruno (41)

17:30-21:00
Poster session – refreshments

21:00
DINNER

SESSION III
(Chairs: G. Dontu – G. Ciliberto)

8:30-9:10
Tariq Enver
(The Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Oxford, UK)
Transcriptional programming in normal and leukaemic stem and progenitor cells

9:10-9:50
Sean J. Morrison
(University of Michigan for Stem Cell Biology, Ann Arbor, MI -USA)
Stem cell self-renewal, cancer cell proliferation, and aging

9:50-10:10
Selected presentation: A. Matheu (1)

10:10-10:40
COFFEE BREAK

10:40-11:20
Robert B. Clarke
(University of Manchester -Christie Hospital, Manchester, UK)
Characterisation of human breast stem cells

11:20-12:00
Gabriela Dontu
(Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI – USA)
Targeting cancer stem cells -implications for development of more effective therapies

12:00-12:40
Salvatore Pece
(European Institute of Oncology, Milan, Italy)
Molecular portraiting of normal human mammary stem cells

12:40-12:55
Selected poster presentation: G. Molyneux (16)
12:55-13:10
Selected poster presentation: M. Bonafe (14)
13:10-13:2
Selected poster presentation: B. Simoes (15)
13:25-13:40
Selected poster presentation: M. Cioce (22)

13:45-15:15
LUNCH

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SESSION IV
(Chairs: G. Morrone – M. van Louhizen)

15:20-16:00
Anna M. Kenney
(Cancer Biology and Genetics, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York,
NY-USA)
Mediators of Sonic hedgehog-regulated proliferation in brain development and cancer

16:00-16:40
Peter Dirks
(The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON -Canada)
Characterization of human brain tumour initiating cells

16:40-16:55
Selected poster presentation: L. Ricci-Vitiani (23)

16:55-17:10
Selected poster presentation: M. R. Sprick (24)

17:10-17:50
Norman J. Maitland
(Department of Biology, University of York, York, UK)
Stem cells from prostate cancer: a new paradigm for cancer therapy

17:50-18:05
Selected poster presentation: I. Bisson (26)

18:05-18:20
Selected poster presentation: M. C. W. Voller (28)

18:20-18:35
Selected poster presentation: J. Hansson (27)

20:00
BANQUET

SESSION V
(Chairs: R. De Maria – G. Viglietto)

9:00-9:40
Rohit Lal
(London Research Institute, Lincoln's Inn Fields Laboratories, London, UK) Epidermal/stromal interactions in tumorigenesis

9:40-9:55
Selected poster presentation: M. Mancuso (31)

9:55-10:35
Hans Clevers
(Hubrecht Institute, Utrecht, the Netherlands)
Wnt and Notch cooperate to maintain proliferative compartments in crypts and intestinal neoplasia

10:35-11:15
Ruggero De Maria
(Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy)
Isolation, characterisation and expansion of colon cancer stem cells

11:15-11:55
Timothy C Wang
(Dept. of Medicine, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY – USA)
Gastric cancer can originate from bone marrow derived cells

11:55-12:10
Selected poster presentation: G. Stassi (34)

12:10-12:25
Selected poster presentation: M. L. Martelli (36)

12:25-12:40
Selected poster presentation: M. M. van Duist (44)

12:40-13:10
Wrap-up

13:10-14:30
LUNCH – END OF WORKSHOP