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Welcome to Day 1

Scientific Programme Committee

Session 1

Chair: Emmanuel Donnadieu

Johanna Ivaska University of Turku, Finland

"Rigidity and ECM composition guided cancer progression"

Q&A: 13:25 - 13:45

Sponsor Introductions

Marianna Kruithof-de Julio Bern University, Switzerland

"Patient derived organoids in Precision Medicine"

Q&A: 14:10 - 14:30

5-minute break

Industry Symposium - Nexcelom

Martin Theiss

From assay setup to quantitative data - Image Cytometry for 3D assays

Break

coffee & stretching

Session 2

Chair: Valerie Weaver

'The EMBO Keynote Lecture'

Matthias Lütolf EFPL, Switzerland

"Engineering next-generation tumoroids"

Q&A: 15:40 - 16:00

5-minute break

Proffered Paper 1: David Bryant CRUK Beatson Institute, UK

"Regulation of prostate cancer metastasis by crosstalk between the sialomucin Podocalyxin and integrin signalling"

Q&A: 16:15 - 16:25

Proffered Paper 2: Florijn Dekkers Prinzess Maxima Center for Pediatric Oncology, Netherlands

"Behavioral-transcriptomic landscape of engineered T cells targeting human cancer organoids"

Q&A: 16:35 - 16:45

Industry Spotlight - Fluicell

Andreas Svanström, Ph.D

Advanced Heterogeneous Cell Culture Models

5-minute break

Jasmin Hunsrucker Merck KGaA, Germany

"3D Co-culture system representing the tumor microenvironment"

Q&A: 17:15 - 17:35

Poster Spotlights

3 top abstracts presented as 3-minute flash talks

'Meet the Speakers and Scientific Programme Committee'

An informal opportunity to meet and ask questions to the speakers and members of the Scientific Programme Committee.

Informal Gathering in 'Gather'

Informal opportunity for participants to browse posters, visit trade stands and network. The virtual exhibition hall and posters will remain open for 24 hours for you to browse at your leisure.

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Virtual Poster Discussion Session

Welcome to Day 2

Scientific Programme Committee

Session 3

Chair: Peter Friedl

Philippe Bousso Institut Pasteur, France

"Decoding the mode of action of tumor immunotherapies using intravital imaging"

Q&A: 14:25 - 14:45

5-minute break

Proffered Paper 3: Kendelle Murphy Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Australia

"Intravital imaging technology guides FAK mediated priming in pancreatic cancer precision medicine according to Merlin status"

Q&A: 15:00 - 15:10

Proffered Paper 4: Patricia Pérez-Galán IDIBAPS, Spain

"Multi-cellular patient-derived non-Hodgkin lymphoma tumoroids: A tool to recapitulate tumor microenvironment, study disease biology and perform drug screening"

Q&A: 15:20 - 15:30

5-minute break

Industry Symposium - LGC Standards

Nirmal Perera

“Getting closer to in vivo with 3D cancer organoids”

Break

coffee & stretching

Session 4

Chair: Henriëtte Lanz

Danijela Vignjevic Marie Curie Institute, France

Cancer-associated fibroblasts actively compress cancer cells and modulate mechanotransduction

Q&A: 16:40 - 17:00

Industry Spotlight - UpNano

Aleks Ovsianikov

3D Printing and Biofabrication

5-minute break

Andrew Ewald John Hopkins Medicine, USA

Cellular and molecular mechanisms of breast cancer metastasis

Q&A: 17:30 - 17:50

5-minute break

Meet the Expert Talk

Valerie Weaver UCSF, USA

An interactive session where our expert will share personal and professional experiences and advice.

END OF DAY 2 SUMMARY