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Second Annual IMPPC Conference: Signalling to Chromatin in Differentiation and Cancer[2011-04-01]
31 March & 1 April 2011
Invited speakers are currently selected and will be announced shortly.
We will further select several short talks on hot topics from young scientists on the basis abstract quality."
LIST OF SPEAKERS FIRST ANNUAL IMPPC CONFERENCE MARCH 2010
Keynote Speaker
Walter Bodmer
University of Oxford, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine
Genetics and Epigentics of Colorectal Cancer
Cancer Genetics
Eduard Serra and Mayka Sanchez (Chairs) IMPPC
Frank McCormick, UCSF Helen Diller Cancer Center
Cancer Treatment Based on the Ras Pathway
Webster Cavenee, UCSD Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research
Targeted Therapies: Why Do They Fail?
Gabriel Capellà, Institut Català d'Oncologia (ICO), Barcelona
Genetic Diagnosis of Hereditary Colorectal Cancer: advances and challenges
Miguel Angel Piris, Spanish National Cancer Research Center (CNIO), Madrid
Targeting the B-cell Receptor in lymphomas
Cancer Epigenetics
Fumi Yamamoto & Pepita Giménez (Chairs) IMPPC
Marcus Buschbeck, IMPPC, Barcelona
MacroH2A - a novel player in the regulation of cell fate
Susan Clark, Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Univ. New South Wales
Remodelling of the cancer epigenome
Miguel Angel Peinado, IMPPC, Barcelona
Illuminating the dark side of the epigenome
Manel Esteller, Cancer Epigenetics & Biology Program (PEBC), Idibell, Barcelona
Cancer Epigenetics: from DNA Methylation to non-coding RNAs
Manuel Perucho, IMPPC, Barcelona
A "wear & tear" model linking epigenetic-genetic alterations with aging & cancer
Cancer Prediction
Lauro Sumoy & Ana Rojas (Chairs) IMPPC
Ian Tomlinson, University of Oxford, Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics
Albert Tenesa, University of Edinburgh, School of Molecular & Clinical Medicine
Common genetic variants and the risk of colorectal cancer onset Colorectal cancer predisposition and the BMP pathway
Agustin Ruiz, Neocodex, Inc., Sevilla
Genome wide epistasis analysis: facts and challenges
Jun Yokota National Cancer Center Res. Institute, Tokyo
Ethnic differences in lung cancer susceptibility
Allan Balmain UCSF Hellen Diller Cancer Center
Cancer complexity: lessons from systems genetics analysis of tumor susceptibility