Liquid Biopsies

Bergamo, Italy : 24 - 26 May 2022

Scientific Programme

Tuesday 24th May 2022

12:00

Registration & Welcome Lunch

13:00

Conference Welcome

Scientific Programme Committee

SESSION 1: Circulating Tumor DNA

Chair: Alberto Bardelli

13:10

Keynote Lecture

Dan Landau New York Genome Center, USA

"Machine learning guided signal enrichment for ultrasensitive plasma tumor burden monitoring"

Q&A: 13:40 - 13:55

13:55

Nitzan Rosenfeld CRUK Cambridge Institute, UK

“Expanding roles of liquid biopsies for cancer diagnostics”

Q&A: 14:15 - 14:25

14:25

Angela An University of Cambridge, UK

Proffered Paper 1: "Detecting ctDNA in dried blood spots from patients with advanced cancer and xenograft mouse models"

Q&A: 14:35 - 14:40

14:40

Exhibitor Introductions

60-second intro pitches by each company

14:50

Coffee Break & Exhibition

SESSION 2: Predicting immunotherapy responses

Chair: Alberto Bardelli

15:20

Luis Diaz MSKCC, USA (Presenting Remotely)

Q&A: 15:40 - 15:50

15:50

Sara Valpione Cancer Research MI, UK

"Liquid biopsies to investigate T cell dynamics during immunotherapy"

Q&A: 16:10 - 16:20

16:20

Poster Spotlights

3 top abstracts presented as 3 minute flash talks

16:30

Discussion Forum

“Alternatives to blood for liquid biopsy”

17:15

Welcome Reception

including drinks and light food

18:15

Poster Discussion Session 1 (Posters 1 - 55)

until 19:45

Wednesday 25th May 2022

08:30

Poster Viewing - coffee and biscuits

Posters may be freely browsed

SESSION 3: Circulating tumor cells

Chair: Evi Lianidou

09:15

Industry Spotlight - Precision For Medicine

Darren Davis Precision For Medicine

“Using Circulating Tumor Cells as Pharmacodynamic Biomarkers in Clinical Trials”

Q&A: 09:20 - 09:30

09:30

Haichao Wang University of Cambridge, UK

Proffered Paper 2: "cfDNAPro: an R/Bioconductor package to characterise and visualise cell-free DNA biological features in liquid biopsy"

Q&A: 09:40 - 09:45

09:45

The EMBO Keynote Lecture

Caroline Dive CRUK Manchester Institute, UK

"Circulating Tumour Cells in Lung Cancer"

Q&A: 10:05 - 10:15

10:15

Claus Jørgensen CRUK Manchester Institute, UK

“The phenotypic landscape of circulating tumour cells in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma patients”

Q&A: 10:35 - 10:45

10:45

Coffee Break & Exhibition

11:15

Nicola Aceto ETH Zurich, Switzerland

“Biology and vulnerabilities of circulating tumor cell clusters”

Q&A: 11:35 - 11:45

11:45

Francesco Gatto Elypta, Sweden

Proffered Paper 3: "Multi-cancer early detection using non-invasive profiling of free glycosaminoglycans as biomarkers of tumor metabolism"

Q&A: 11:55 - 12:00

12:00

Poster Spotlights

3 top abstracts presented as 3 minute flash talks

12:10

Industry Symposium - Thermo Fisher Scientific

David Guttery

"Verification of an NGS approach for earlier detection of endometrial cancer relapse using liquid biopsies"

12:40

Lunch & Exhibition

13:40

Poster Discussion Session 2 (Posters 56 - 108)

15:05

Milana Frenkel-Morgenstern Bar-Ilan University, Israel

"Liquid Biopsy using gene-gene fusions in Complex Diseases"

Q&A: 15:25 - 15:35

15:35

Daniel Haber Harvard Medical School, USA (Presenting remotely)

"Functional Annotation of Circulating Tumor Cells"

Q&A: 15:55 - 16:05

16:05

Roni Ben Ami The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

Proffered Paper 4: "Protein biomarkers and alternatively methylated cell-free DNA for detection of early-stage pancreatic cancer"

Q&A: 16:15 - 16:20

16:20

Efrat Shema Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

Proffered Paper 5: "Multiplexed Single-Molecule Epigenetic Analysis of Plasma-Isolated Nucleosomes for Cancer Diagnostics"

Q&A: 16:30 - 16:35

16:35

Coffee Break & Exhibition

SESSION 4: ctDNA-MRD

Chair: Nickolas Papadopoulos

17:05

Ryan Corcoran Harvard Medical School, USA

“Clinical Applications of Liquid Biopsy to Detect Minimal Residual Disease”

Q&A: 17:25 - 17:35

17:35

Silvia Marsoni IFOM, Italy

"Interventional liquid biopsy in colorectal cancer"

Q&A: 17:55 - 18:05

18:05

Discussion Forum (40 minutes)

“Beyond ctDNA mutations, as a liquid biopsy for personalised cancer medicine”

19:00

Conference Dinner

Taverna Valtellinese

Optional ticketed dinner

Thursday 26th May 2022

08:30

Poster Viewing - coffee and biscuits

Posters may be freely browsed

08:45

Industry Spotlight - Novosanis

Amit Arora DNA Genotek

“Bridging the gap: moving urine as a liquid biopsy into clinical practice"

SESSION 5: CTDNA, Methylation & Fragmentomics

Chair: Caroline Dive

09:00

Dominic Rothwell CRUK Manchester Institute, UK

"Profiling of the cfDNA methylome for detection, monitoring and characterisation of cancer"

Q&A: 09:20 - 09:30

09:30

Sarah-Jane Dawson Peter Mac, Australia

“Genomic and Epigenomic Monitoring of Cancer Using Liquid Biopsies”

Q&A: 09:50 - 10:00

10:00

Coffee Break & Exhibition

10:30

Ellen Heitzer Medical University of Graz, Austria

"Genome-wide analysis of ctDNA for cancer monitoring and stratification"

Q&A: 10:50 - 11:00

11:00

Yari Ciani University of Trento, Italy

Proffered Paper 6: "Detection and tracking of breast cancer signal in the plasma of patients on neoadjuvant chemotherapy treatment via cfDNA and EV-RNA analysis"

Q&A: 11:10 - 11:15

11:15

Gabriella Sozzi Istituto Nazionale Tumori, Italy

"Liquid biopsy for screening and early detection of lung cancer"

Q&A: 11:35 - 11:45

11:45

Conference Summary & Depart

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