October 23rd 2013, there will be a very interesting and high quality symposium held at the medical school in Geneva on Cancer and angio/lympho-genesis organized by the Jeantet Foundation. Registration is free, so it is a great opportunity for master students, PhD students and postdocs to attend. More information in the link below:
http://www.jeantet.ch/e/symposium2013/programme.php
2013 Louis-Jeantet Symposium
Wednesday, 23 October 2013
Program:
08:50 – 09:00 Opening address
Henri Bounameaux, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva
SESSION 1 : OXYGEN SENSING AND CANCER
Session 1.1: 09:00 – 10:55
Chairmen Peter Ratcliffe, 2009 Louis-Jeantet prize-winner, University of Oxford
Pierre-Yves Dietrich, University of Geneva
09:00 – 09:25 Roland H. Wenger, University of Zurich
Modulating the human hypoxia response
09:25 – 09:50 Stephen Lee, University of Ottawa
Translational control of oncogenic pathways by HIF-2alpha
09:50 – 10:05 Break
10:05 – 10:30 M. Celeste Simon, University of Pennsylvania
Hypoxia signal pathway cross-talk in cancer
10:30 – 10:55 Randall S. Johnson, University of Cambridge
Functional diversity in the HIF system; implications for cancer
10:55 – 11:10 Break
Session 1.2: 11:10 – 12:25
11:10 – 11:35 Wilhelm Krek, ETH Zurich
HIF-dependent and HIF-independent function of the von Hippel-Lindau
tumour suppressor
11:35 – 12:00 Massimiliano Mazzone, University of Leuven
Oxygen vessels, and inflammation: implications for cancer and ischemia
12:00 – 12:25 Peter J. Ratcliffe, University of Oxford
Keynote Lecture
12:25 – 13:40 Lunch
SESSION 2 : LYMPHOGENESIS AND CANCER
Session 2.1: 13:40 – 15:35
Chairmen Kari Alitalo, 2006 Louis-Jeantet prize-winner, University of Helsinki
Beat Imhof, University of Geneva
13:40 – 14:05 Holger Gerhardt, Cancer Research UK, London
Principles of collective endothelial cell behaviour driving vascular pattern
formation
14:05 – 14:30 Anne Eichmann, Yale University
Factors guiding of vascular patterning
14:30 – 14:45 Break
14:45 – 15:10 Christer Betsholtz, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm
Regulation of the vascular pericyte
15:10 – 15:35 Ralf H. Adams, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine, Münster
Molecular regulation of blood vessel remodeling and stabilization
15:35 – 15:50 Break
Session 2.2: 15:50 – 17:05
15:50 – 16:15 Taija Makinen, Cancer Research UK, London
Origins of the lymphatic vasculature revisited
16:15 – 16:40 Tatiana Petrova, CHUV and University of Lausanne
Biomechanical and transcriptional regulation of lymphatic vessels
16:40 – 17:05 Kari Alitalo, University of Helsinki
Keynote Lecture
17:05 – 17:15 Jürg A. Schifferli, University of Basel
Concluding remarks
17:15 End of the Symposium