Wednesday September 25


Scientific Program 2013-09-25


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Session 1
Session 2
Novel CTC Assays
Metastasis biology discussion


08.35 - 09.05

Keynote lecture:CTC-DTC research: State-of-the-art & Perspectives

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09.05 - 14.00
Session 1

Metastasis biology I

09.05 - 09.30

Dormant tumor cell survival and recurrence


09.30 - 09.55

Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition (EMT)


09.55 - 10.20

Microenvironment and Epithelial Mesenchymal Plasticity (EMP) in Breast Cancer


10.20 - 10.50

Coffee break

10.50 - 11.10

Influence of the mitochondrial genome on cancer metastasis measured using mitochondrial-nuclear exchange


11.10 - 11.30

Metastatic Breast Cancer Stem Cells

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11.30 - 11.50

Convergence of microenvironmental, self-renewal and quiescence signals regulate disseminated tumor cell dormancy


11.50 - 12.10

Tumor-Stromal Interactions in Bone Metastasis


12.10 - 12.30

Metastasis and bone environnement


12.30 - 14.00

Lunch and Posters Session

14.00 - 18.30
Session 2

Novel CTC assays

14.00 - 14.25

Challenges in CTC detection


14.25 - 14.45

Microfluidic-magnetic sorting of CTC: the best of two worlds?


14.45 - 15.05

Microfluidic biochips for CTC detection and retrieval


15.05 - 15.25

In vivo isolation of circulating tumor cells by the Cell Collector™ system

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15.25 - 15.55

Coffee break

15.55 - 16.15

Are filtration-based methods more efficient for the characterization of CTC heterogeneity ?


16.15 - 16.30

The DEPArray™ System: automated isolation of pure CTCs to bring molecular characterization into clinical routine


16.30 - 16.45

Novel CTC assays


16.45 - 17.50
Novel CTC Assays

Selected oral presentations

16.45 - 17.00

Detection of viable circulating tumor cells by viral infection

Speaker : Julia Pietsch

17.00 - 17.15

Identification of Heterogeneous Populations of Circulating Tumor Cells from Patients Using ApoStream™, an Antibody- Independent Cancer Cell Recovery Device

Speaker : Kenna Anderes

17.15 - 17.30

Isolation and molecular profiling of a circulating tumor cell by using a novel single . cell picking system

Speaker : Yuurin Kondo

17.30 - 17.50

In vivo CTC detection using photoacoustic flow cytometry


17.50 - 18.30

Metastasis biology discussion

17.50 - 17.55
Metastasis biology discussion

Primary tumors elicit dormancy of disseminated breast cancer cells in the bone marrow by downregulating Gas6


17.55 - 18.00

Identification of heterogeneous populations of circulating tumor cells from patients using ApoStream™, an antibody- Independent cancer cell recovery device


18.00 - 18.05

CTCs-enriched blood fractions, primary tumors and lymph nodes metastases gene expression profiles and their clinical significance

18.05 - 18.10

Breast cancer brain metastasis: interrogating mechanisms of brain colonization by CTC subset profiling and biomarker discovery


18.10 - 18.15

The transcription factor grainyhead-like 2 (GRHL2) is a regulator of EMT and cell proliferation in breast cancer


18.15 - 18.20

Capture, culture and functional characterization of viable circulating tumor cells in a syngenic breast cancer mouse model system

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18.20 - 18.25

Identifying genomic signatures in circulating tumour cells from breast cancer

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