CanCell Annual Retreat 2020

We will hold the Annual CanCell Retreat 2020 at Quality Hotel 33. This event is for members and invited only. 

Time and place: – , Quality Hotel 33
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The tentative program is listed below and will feature lectures from Eyal Gottlieb, Jayanta Debnath, Johanna Ivaska and Arnoldo Frigessi 

We will ensure that everyone should feel safe during the retreat, and follow the current National infection prevention guidelines closely. The hotel also adheres to strict rules regarding COVID.

 

Program

Thursday October 15th

0930-1015: Registration and coffee. All participants will be divided into cohorts that must be adhered to throughout the retreat.

1015-1030: Welcome address /PI-group

1030-1130: CanCell Awards

*1130-1200: break*

1200-1245: Keynote lecture: Eyal Gottlieb

1245-1345: Lunch

1400-1430: Flash talk Session 1

1430-1500: Flash talk Session 2

*1500-1530: break and check-in*

1530-1600: Flash talk Session 3

1600-1630: Flash talk Session 4

*1630-1800: break and check-in*

1800-1845: Keynote lecture: Jay Debnath

1900: Aperitif

2000: Dinner

 

Friday October 16th

0800: Breakfast

0900-1015: Associated members and project leaders

0900: Arnoldo Frigessi

0930: Leonardo Meza-Zepeda

0950: Marie Rogne

1015-1045: Equality Forum

*1045-1115: break*

1115-1200: Keynote lecture: Johanna Ivaska

1200-1235: CanCell Junior Grants

1235: Summary

1300-1400: Lunch

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Our invited speakers

Image may contain: Glasses, Face, Chin, Head, Forehead.Eyal Gottlieb, Technion Institute, Israel. His research explores the metabolic control of tumorigenesis, i.e. the physiological and pathological metabolic changes that dictate cancer cells’ fate. He is a visiting professor at CanCell. 

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Jayanta Debnath, UCSF, USA. His expertise is in autophagy, and how this process regulates epithelial cell fate, oncogenic transformation, and carcinoma progression

Johanna Ivaska, University of Turku, Finland. Her work entails integrins, matrix, motility and mechano-transduction in cancer. She is a Scientific Advisory Board member at CanCell.