Preliminary Programme

November 7, 2024 / Thursday
9:00-9:30Registration
9:30-10:00Opening
SESSION 1 – Clinical Care & Diagnostics
Chairs: Vesna Musani, Miljana Tanić / Maja Sirotković-Skerlev, Ana Podolski-Renić
10:00-10:30Miljana Tanić (Serbia)
"Biobanking from scratch: A roadmap to setup a rectal cancer biobank within the STEPUPIORS project"
10:30-11:00Iva Kirac (Croatia)
"Prehabilitation in colorectal cancer care"
11:00-11:15Ivica Belina (Croatia)
"Access to Precision Medicine for Cancer Patients in Croatia"
11:15-11:45Coffee break
11:45-12:15Ana Podolski-Renić (Serbia)
"Functional diagnostics in personalized therapy for non-small cell lung carcinoma"
12:15-12:30selected from abstracts
12:30-12:45selected from abstracts
12:45-13:00selected from abstracts
13:00-13:15Marina Panek (Croatia)
"Advanced molecular technologies in the fight against cancer: Single-cell Sequencing & Digital PCR" [Sponsored by Labena d.o.o.]
13:15-14:15Lunch break
14:15-15:00Poster Session
PLENARY SESSION
Chair: Sonja Levanat
15:00-15:45René Bernards (Netherlands)
"Therapeutic over-activation of oncogenic signaling as a cancer treatment strategy" [Sponsored by EACR]
SESSION 2 - Emerging Hallmarks of Cancer
Chairs: Petar Ozretić, Gary Moran / Sandra Sobočanec, Aleksanda Janković
15:45-16:15Gary Moran (Ireland)
"The microbiome of oral potentially malignant disease: can we predict malignant progression?"
16:15-16:30selected from abstracts
16:30-16:45selected from abstracts
16:45-17:15Coffee break
17:15-17:45Aleksanda Janković (Serbia)
"Redox-metabolic signatures of cancer-associated adipose tissue shed light on breast cancer metabolism"
17:45-18:15Özlen Konu (Turkey)
"CAP-RNAseq: An online application for clustering, annotation and prioritization of RNA-seq data: Essential genes in cancer and senescence"
18:15-18:30selected from abstracts
18:30-18:45selected from abstracts
November 8, 2024 / Friday
SESSION 3 - Mechanisms of Tumorigenesis
Chairs: Ivan Šamija, Tanja Matijević Glavan / Neda Slade, Siniša Volarević
9:00-9:30Tanja Matijević Glavan (Croatia)
"The role of TLR3 and DAMPs in cancer stem cells"
9:30-10:00Inga Urlić: (Croatia)
"Cancer stem cell population through different stages of osteosarcoma"
10:00-10:15selected from abstracts
10:15-10:30Robert Stad (USA)
"From spatial discovery to spatial signatures, at scale: Akoya Biosciences solutions for multiplex fluorescent IHC" [Sponsored by a&b d.o.o.]
10:30-11:00Coffee break [Sponsored by Gorea Plus d.o.o.]
11:00-11:30Siniša Volarević (Croatia)
"How do cells with impaired ribosome production become malignant?"
11:30-12:00Nino Sinčić (Croatia)
"Epigenetics in prostate cancer: Game changer or just another stray?"
12:00-12:15selected from abstracts
12:15-12:30selected from abstracts
12:30-13:30Lunch break
SESSION 4 - Tumor Therapy & Resistance
Chairs: Maja Sabol, Neil Conlon / Katja Ester, Rainer Schindl
13:30-14:00Neil Conlon (Ireland)
"OvaLoad: The combinatorial use of DNA-damaging antibody-drug conjugates and targeted therapies for ovarian cancer"
14:00-14:30Mladen Paradžik (Croatia)
"Modulation of the adhesion complex by miR-214 in triple-negative breast cancer"
14:30-14:45selected from abstracts
14:45-15:00Ines Topalović Piteša (Croatia)
"Non-invasive and label-free live cell imaging, weighing and sorting in 3D and more!" [Sponsored by Altium International d.o.o.]
15:00-15:30Coffee break
15:30-16:00Rainer Schindl (Austria)
"Continuous iontronic chemotherapy reduces brain tumor growth in embryonic avian in vivo models"
16:00-16:30Anamaria Brozović (Croatia)
"Interconnection of drug resistance and drug-induced epithelial-mesenchymal transition in drug-resistant ovarian cancer"
16:30-17:00Marijeta Kralj (Croatia)
"Deciphering the role of the Golgi apparatus in cancer progression and treatment"
17:15-17:30selected from abstracts
17:30-17:45Coffee break
17:45-18:00Closing & Best posters awards [Sponsored by EACR]