Program
Chair: Emma Haapaniemi
10:30 Sebastian Waszak, EMBL Heidelberg, Germany: The genetic landscape of childhood brain tumors: molecular mechanisms and clinical implications
10:55 Joy Wolfram, Mayo Clinic, Florida, US: Extracellular vesicles for therapeutic and diagnostic use
11:20 Davide Seruggia, Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, US: Dissecting functions of chromatin modifiers with CRISPR / Cas9
11:45 Rio Sugimura, Center for iPS Cell Research and Application, Kyoto University, Japan: Spatial and temporal regulation of human developmental hematopoiesis
12:10 Coffee Break & Light refreshments
12:40 Dennis Jeppesen, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, US: Novel Secretion Pathways in Cancer
13:05 Fangjie Zhu, University of Cambridge, UK: Bottom-up Approaches to Decode Biological Supramolecular Interactions
13:30 Thomas Gonatopoulos-Pournatzis, Donnelly Center, University of Toronto, Canada: Exon-centric functional genomics uncovers splice variants underlying normal physiology & disease-related phenotypes
13:55 Barbara Mair, Donnelly Center, University of Toronto, Canada: Global genetic requirements for cell fitness and protein expression