Programme

16:30-19:00

Arrival and Registration

19:00  

Dinner

20:00-21:30

Welcome Lecture
Hermann Bujard
(EMBO Executive Director)

Tuesday 10/7/2008

Morning Session
Stem Cells and Niches in Development and Cancer

8:30-9:05 

Fiona Watt               
“Factors that influence epidermal tumor initiation and progression

9:05-9:40 

Andreas Trumpp   
"Dormant and activated stem cells during homeostasis injury and cancer"

9:40-10:15

Magdalena Götz    

To be announced

10:15-10:30

Short talk selected from poster abstracts

10:30-11:00 

Coffee Break

11:00-11:35

Pierre G. Pelicci      
To be announced

11:35-12:10

Frank Buchholz        
To be announced

12:10-12:25

Short talk selected from poster abstracts

12:30-14:00

   Lunch Break

Afternoon Session
Accelerators and Brakes in Tumorigenesis

14:00-14:35

Chris Marshall 
To be announced

14:35-15:10 

Yosef Yarden
To be announced

15:10-15:45

Gerard I. Evan      
To be announced

15:45-16:00 

Short talk selected from poster abstracts

16:00-16:30 

Coffee Break   

16:30-17:05  

Jos Jonkers              
"Conditional mouse models of breast cancer"

17:05-1740 

Ulf R. Rapp             
"Mouse models for metastatic conversion of lung  cancer”

17:40-17:55

Short talk selected from poster abstracts

18:00-19:30

Poster Session I

19:00-20:30

   Dinner

Wednesday 10/8/2008

Morning Session
Migration and Invasion at distant Sites

8:30-9:05 

Gerhard Christofori 
"Molecular dissection of tumor cell invasion"

9:05-9:40 

Roland Schmid     
To be announced

9:40-10:15

Peter Friedl              
“Plasticity of cancer invasion”

10:15-10:30

Short talk selected from poster abstracts

10:30-11:00 

Coffee Break

11:00-11:35

Hartmut Beug          
To be announced

11:35-12:10

Kari Alitalo              
To be announced

12:10-12:25

to be announced

12:30-14:00

Lunch Break

Afternoon Session
Epigenesis and Reprogramming in Development and Cancer

14:00-14:35

Martin van Lohuizen
“Polycomb repressors controlling stem cell fate: implications for cancer and development”

14:35-15:10 

To be announced

15:10-15:45

Thorsten Stiewe               
To be announced

15:45-16:00 

Short talk selected from poster abstracts

16:00-16:30 

Coffee Break

16:30-17:05  

Frank Lyco                        
"Epigenetic cancer therapy".

17:05-1740 

Somasekar Seshagiri       
“Identification and Characterization of Somatic mutations in cancer”

17:40-17:55

Short talk selected from poster abstracts

18:00-19:30

Poster Session II

19:00-20:30

Conference Banquet

Thursday 10/9/2008

Morning Session
Lessons from Animal Models: Regeneration, Cell Competition and Proliferative Compensation 

8:30-9:05 

Eduardo Moreno     
To be announced

9:05-9:40 

Elly M. Tanaka   
“How much reprogramming occurs during axolotl limb regeneration?”

9:40-10:15

Claudio D. Stern     
  "Regulation of neural cell fate by a timing mechanism involving coiled-coil proteins and chromatin remodelling"

10:15-10:30

Short talk selected from poster abstracts

10:30-11:00 

Coffee Break

11:00-11:35

Ralf Schnabel       

“Pattern formation by cell focussing in the C. elegans embryo”

11:35-12:10

Laura Johnston     
  "Competitive interactions during growth"

12:10-12:25

Short talk selected from poster abstracts

12:25-12:55

Poster Award

End of Meeting