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Tuesday, March 27, 2007
9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Chan Shun Auditorium, Valley Life Sciences Bldg, Rm 2050

9am

Steve Martin, Conference Co-Chair, Div. of Cell & Developmental Biology

Welcome and Opening Remarks

 

 

1st Session Chair: Mark Walters, CHORI

9:10-9:50am

Michael Clarke, Stanford University

Escape from self renewal constraints by cancer stem cells."

 

9:50-10:30am

Owen Witte, UCLA

 

"Stem cells for prostate tissue development and prostate cancer."

 

 

10:30-11:00am

Coffee Break

 

 

2nd Session Chair: Mary-Helen Barcellos-Hoff, LBNL

 

11:00-11:40am

Mina Bissell, LBNL

 

"Context and tissue structure determine the pattern of gene expression phenotype in normal and malignant breast."

 

11:40-12:20pm

John Condeelis, Albert Einstein College of Medicine

 

"Imaging and expression profiling of the tumor microenvironment of metastic breast cancer."

 

 

12:20-1:50pm Lunch Break

 

 

3rd Session Chair: Kunxin Luo, Div. of Cell & Developmental Biology

 

1:50-2:30pm

David Lyden, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Ctr.

 

"Preparing the soil for the pre-metatastic niche."

 

2:30-3:10pm

Martine Roussel, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

 

"Molecular determinants of medulloblastoma."

 

 

3:10-3:30pm

Coffee break

 

 

4th Session Chair: Mark Schlissel, Div. of Immunology

 

3:30-4:10pm

Clemens Schmitt, Max Delbruck Center for Molecular Medicine

 

"Stress-inducible senescence in lymphoma development and therapy"

 

4:10-4:55pm

Gerard Evan, UCSF

 

"The uses and abuses of apoptosis in cancer"

 

4:55-5:00pm

Iswar Hariharan, Div. of Cell & Developmental Biology

Closing Remarks 

 

5:00-5:45pm

Reception in the VLSB courtyard - all are invited (if the weather is poor, the reception will be held in the area between the auditorium and the courtyard)