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EMBL Conference

Cancer Genomics

EMBL Heidelberg, Germany Sunday 3 November - Tuesday 5 November 2013 Registration deadline: Thursday 19 September 2013
Abstract deadline: Thursday 8 August 2013
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(Preliminary) Programme

The 2013 preliminary programme (subject to changes)
 
Day 1 - Sunday 3 November
Time Speaker  
11:00-13:00 Registration and Lunch  
13:00-13:15 Opening remarks  
13:15-18:45 Session I: Cancer Genetics
Chair:
 
13:15-14:15 Keynote Lecture: Taking Insights from CLL Genomic Sequencing to the Clinics
Elias Campo, Hospital Clinic, University of Barcelona
14:15-14:45 Elaine Mardis, The Genome Institute
at Washington University
 
14:45-15:15 Coffee break  
15:15-15:45 Peter Campbell,
Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute
 
15:45-16:00 Selected talk  
16:00-16:15 Selected talk  
16:15-16:45 Genomics of Germinal Center derived B-Cell Lymphomas  
Reiner Siebert, Kiel University
16:45-17:15 Coffee break  
17:15-17:45 Steven Jones,
BC Cancer Agency
 
17:45-18:00 Selected talk  
18:00-18:15 Selected talk  
18:15-18:45 Stephen Chanock,
National Cancer Institute
 
18:45-20:00 Dinner  
20:00-21:00 Keynote Lecture: Genetic predisposition to cancer – new horizons  
Nazneen Rahman, The Institute of Cancer Research
21:00-22:30 Welcome reception & Poster preview  
 
 
Day 2 - Monday 4 November
Time Speaker  
09:00-12:30 Session 2: Functional Genomics & Epigenomics of Cancer
Chair:
 
09:00-09:30 Chromatin dynamics  during cellular differentiation  and response  
Ido Amit, Weizman Institute of Science
09:30-10:00 Peter Lichter,
German Cancer Research Center
 
10:00-10:15 Selected talk  
10:15-10:30 Selected talk  
10:30-11:00 Coffee break  
11:00-11:30 Yijun Ruan,
Genome Institute of Singapore
 
11:30-12:00 Ivo Gut,
National Genome Analysis Centre
 
12:00-12:15 Selected talk  
12:15-12:30 Selected talk  
12:30-14:00 Lunch  
14:00-18:15 Session 3: Systems Biology & Integrated Analysis of Cancer
Chair:
 
14:00-14:30 Nikolaus Rajewsky,
MDC Berlin
 
14:30-15:00 Valerie LeBleu,
Harvard Medical School
 
15:00-15:15 Selected talk  
15:15-15:30 Selected talk  
15:30-16:00 Coffee break  
16:00-16:30 Ewan Birney,
EMBL-EBI
 
16:30-17:00 Andrea Califano,
Columbia University
 
17:00-17:30 Jan Korbel,
EMBL Heidelberg
 
17:30-17:45 Selected talk  
17:45-18:00 Selected talk  
18:00-18:15 Selected talk  
18:15-19:30 Poster session I  
19:30-00:00 Conference Dinner and Party  
 
 
Day 3 - Tuesday 5 November
Time Speaker  
09:00-12:30 Session IV: Cancer Model Systems & Systems Pharmacology
Chair:
 
09:00-09:30 Ultan McDermott,
Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute
 
09:30-10:00 Invited speaker  
10:00-10:15 Selected talk  
10:15-10:30 Selected talk  
10:30-11:00 Coffee break  
11:00-11:30 Katerina Politi,
Yale University
 
11:30-12:00 Invited speaker  
12:00-12:15 Selected talk  
12:15-12:30 Selected talk  
12:30-13:30 Lunch  
13:30-15:00 Poster session II  
15:00-19:15 Session V: Translation and Clinical Impact of Cancer Genomics
Chair:
 
15:00-15:30 Lynda Chin,
MD Anderson Cancer Center
 
15:30-16:00 Jessica Zucman-Rossi,
Inserm U674
 
16:00-16:15 Selected talk  
16:15-16:30 Selected talk  
16:30-17:00 Coffee break  
17:00-17:30 Sam Aparicio,
BC Cancer Agency
 
17:30-18:00 Invited speaker  
18:00-19:00 Keynote lecture:
Andy Futreal,
MD Anderson Cancer Center
 
19:00-19:15 Closing remarks and poster prize