Events
Summerschool Heidelberg September 2022
19 September, 2022
Heidelberg, Germany
Monday 19th September:
Location = Conference Center Heidelberg, Carl-Friedrich-Gauß-Ring 5, 69124 Heidelberg
8:30-9:00 Registration
9:00 – 9:30 Opening summerschool, overview of the programme
Speakers: Prof. Dr. Jan Molenaar (Máxima), Dr. Marcel Kool (Maxima/KiTZ/DKFZ), Dr. Ina Oehme (KiTZ/DKFZ)
BLOK 1: MOLECULAR TARGETS AND PATHWAYS
Moderator/chair BLOK 1: Valentina Lo Re (Curie) and Jakob Wurth (UZH)
9:30-10:00 Prof. Dr. Stephan Pfister: “Personalizing pediatric oncology – INFORM experience”
10:00-10:30 Dr. Ina Oehme: “Functional ex vivo drug screens within the INFORM precision medicine program reveals added value to NGS based target identification”
10:30-10:45 Babette Hoen (Máxima): “Smart drug screening to identify synergy between conventional chemotherapy, precision medicines and immunotherapy for B-ALL”
10:45-11:00 Shanzheng Wang (KiTZ): “R-loops in pediatric brain tumors”
11:00-11:30 Coffee break
11:30-11:45 Marta Emperador (KiTZ): “Targeting of the ECM in therapy resistant pediatric tumors”
11:45-12:00 Negin Razizadeh (LMU): “Targeting ATRX-deficient hepatoblastoma”
12:00-12:15 Joshua Goulding (Ugent): “Replicative Stress Resistance Modelling and Therapeutic Targeting in Neuroblastoma”
12:15-13:30 Lunch Break
BLOK 2: EPIGENETICS
Moderator/chair BLOK 2: Joshua Goulding (Ugent) and Babette Hoen (Máxima)
13:30-14:30 Dr. Jarno Drost (Máxima) and Dr. Ana Banito (KiTZ)
Title: tbd
14:30-14:45 Charlotte Butterworth (Curie): “A novel approach to decipher the epigenetic evolution of Neuroblastoma”
14:45-15:00 Jiayou He (Máxima): “Deciphering epigenetic reprogramming in Atypical Teratoid Rhabdoid Tumors (ATRTs)”
15:00-15:15 Veveeyan Suresh (CCRI): ‘FACS based high throughput drug screening to identify EWS::FLI1 modulatory pathways’
15:15-15:30 Coffee break
15:30-15:45 Joaquin Jurado Maqueda (IOR): ‘Exosomes role in the chemoresistance of osteosarcoma cells’
15:45-16:00 Jakob Wurth (UZH): “Targeting transcriptional core regulatory circuit by epigenetic dependencies”
16:00 – 16:30 break
16:30-18:00 Supervisory board meeting (hybrid), closed session only for consortium members
Tuesday 20 September :
Location = Conference Center Heidelberg, Carl-Friedrich-Gauß-Ring 5, 69124 Heidelberg
BLOK 3: IMMUNOLOGIE
Moderator/chair BLOK 3: Joaquin Jurado Maqueda (IOR) and Charlotte Butterworth (Curie)
9:00-10:00 Dr. Judith Wienke (Máxima) and Dr. Annette Künkele (Charité): “Novel immunotherapies for neuroblastoma: outsmarting the tumor and its microenvironment”
10:00-10:15 Ronja Pscheid (Gadeta BV): “In-depth anti-tumor reactivity of TEGs towards pediatric cancer”
10:15-10:30. Elisa Zappa (Máxima): ““Immune interventions from scRNAseq analysis from debulked neuroblastoma tumors”
10:30-11:00 Coffee break
11:00-11:15 Alice Vitali (Charité): “CAR and TCR T therapy: competitor bundle forces. A combinational approach to prevent tumour escape by antigen loss”
11:15-11:30 Valentina Lo Re (Curie): “Targeting the surface-ome landscape of paediatric tumor”
11:30-11:45 Alejandro Allo Anido (ICR): Exploring the relation between transcriptional noise and phenotypic plasticity as a source of non-genetic evolution in neuroblastoma
11:45-12:00 Wrap up and announce parallel sessions and speakers (Jan Molenaar/Marcel Kool)
12:00-13:00 Lunch Break and ‘Best PhD presentation award’
Theme: New Developments
Chair: Marcel Kool / Jan Molenaar
13:00 – 13:30 Dr. Marcel Kool: “Molecular classification of pediatric brain tumors and how to translate genomic findings to the clinic”
13:30 – 14:00 Prof. Dr. Frank Westermann
14:00 – 14:30 Prof. Dr. Till Milde: “Waking up Sleeping Beauty – development of low-grade glioma in vitro models”
14:30 – 15:00 Coffee break
15:00 – 15:30 Dr. Ashok Kumar Jayavelu: ‘From bulk to single cell proteomics for precision medicine’
15:30 – 16:00 Prof. Dr. Thomas Grunewald: “Translational genomics and targeted therapy of Ewing sarcoma”
16:00 – 17:00 Meet the speaker – informal drink
Due to limited space, tickets will be given out on a first come, first serve basis. So, register as soon as possible and before Sept 10th, because you don’t want to miss this exciting event!
Registration link: https://forms.gle/8r9kdkH2ZY5KJyez6
This summer school is funded by the Innovation Campus Health & Life Sciences. Learn more on our blog page and here: www.health-life-sciences.de