On the day guide

Welcome to The Invisible Phase of Metastasis 2022! This page brings together all the information you’ll need while attending this EACR Virtual Conference. 

Quick Links

• Scientific Programme
• Virtual Poster Discussion Sessions
  • Session 1 Posters
  • Session 2 Posters​
• Digital Abstracts and Posters (Login required for access)
• Participant List (You will receive the password at the start of the conference)
• Code of Conduct

Zoom

We run our EACR Virtual Conferences across two Zoom formats – Webinars (for the conference talks) and Meetings (for our poster discussion sessions). As an attendee during the webinar, you won’t be able to switch on your camera and will need to have your microphone enabled to ask questions. During the Poster Discussion Sessions, you will be in control of your own camera and microphone. You will need to have both switched on to get the most out of these sessions. 

Accessing the Webinar

Approximately 24 hours before the start of each day of the conference, you should receive an email from Zoom with your link to access the conference webinar. As this is an automated email, it might be sorted into your junk folder. If you have not received your email by the morning of the conference, then please email Christopher.Iliffe@eacr.org. This webinar link is specific to you and should not be shared with anyone else.

If you click on this link before the conference is due to start, you will see a holding screen. Once EACR has started the webinar, the system will automatically move you into the conference space. If you need to leave the conference, you can rejoin later using the same link.

Asking Questions

There are two ways that you can ask questions to our speakers during the conference talks.

If you want to ask your question live, then please use the ‘Raise Hand’ button. This might be located at the top or bottom of your screen. The Chair will invite you to ask your question, and the EACR will enable your microphone.

If you do not want to ask your question live, then use the Q&A box. This might be found at the bottom of your screen. You will have the option to ask your question anonymously if that is your preference. The Chair will then read questions from the Q&A box on your behalf.

Virtual Poster Discussion Sessions

Tuesday 06 December, 17:20-18:20 CET
Wednesday 07 December, 12:30-13:30 CET

The Poster Discussion Sessions are scheduled to take place at the end of Day 1 and the beginning of Day 2 of the conference. They will each be held as a seperate Zoom meeting. You will receive the links to join these meetings in the email sent to you a week before the conference. During the Virtual Poster Discussion Sessions, each poster presenter will have their very own 'Breakout Room' where they will be displaying their poster. All attendees will have full control over their camera and microphone, be able to communicate using the chat, and navigate across the breakout rooms to view each poster and talk to the poster presenter.

When you first enter the meeting, you will go straight to the “Lobby”. EACR staff will be there throughout the session should you have any questions. Details of each of the posters on display in the session and their relevant breakout rooms will also be shown on the screen in this main area. You can also access the list of posters via our Online Abstract Book and through our ‘On the Day’ guide (you can find the lists further down this page!).

Conference participants are invited to join any of the rooms to browse the posters, discuss the work on show and make new connections. To navigate to a specific breakout room, click on the ‘Breakout Room’ button and then on the specific room you would like to join. Zoom will then move you to that breakout room. Keep in mind that each poster discussion session only lasts 1 hour, so make sure you leave yourself plenty of time to browse!

If you are a Poster Presenter, you will have your own designated breakout room which corresponds to your poster number. This space is entirely yours and can be used to present your research however you think is best! We recommend sharing your poster as a PowerPoint slide or presentation. 

Poster Discussion Session 1: Tuesday 06 December 2022

17:20 – 18:20 CET

Posters on display:

Poster 01 – Maria Secrier “Genomic and microenvironmental heterogeneity shaping epithelial-to-mesenchymal trajectories in cancer”

Poster 02 - Sally K Y To “Intratumoral heterogeneity of β-catenin and Hippo signaling promotes ovarian cancer metastasis”

Poster 03 – Tommaso Virgilio “Subcapsular Sinus Macrophages Promote Melanoma Metastasis to the Sentinel Lymph Nodes via an IL1a–STAT3 Axis”

Poster 04 – Adedoyin Adeoye “Antiproliferative and curative effects of fraction from Calliandra portoricensis against mammary carcinogenesis induced by N-methyl-N-nitrosourea and benzo(a)pyrene through augmenting apoptosis and antioxidant pathway in rats”

Poster 05 – Esraa Aldujaily “Prediction of metastasis using epithelial-mesenchymal biomarkers in Iraqi patients with papillary thyroid carcinoma”

Poster 06 – Isabell Armstark “Zeb1 expression in cancer-associated fibroblasts promotes distant metastasis in PDAC”

Poster 07 – Anshika Chauhan “Extensive molecular heterogeneity in circulating tumor cells plays crucial role in oral squamous cell carcinoma prognosis”

Poster 08 – Ana Clavel “EMT-dependent transcriptional enhancers important for metastatic colonization”

Poster 09 – Viviana De Rosa “Targeting cancer metabolism and oncogene drivers to improve therapeutic efficacy of TKIs in NSCLC cells”

Poster 10 – Anabel Eckerling “A role for tumor secretome in promoting postoperative metastasis through beta-adrenergic and prostaglandin signaling”

Poster 11 – Fabrizio Fontana “Prostate cancer-released extracellular vesicles endow adipocytes with pro-tumor features”

Poster 12 – Valerie Fritz “The long non-coding RNAs lncRNA-ADM-2 and lncRNA-NBPF3-9 are potential novel regulators of hepatocellular carcinoma stemness and migration”

Poster 13 – Mateusz Gielata “Catulin reporter marks a heterogeneous population of invasive and plastic breast cancer cells that express MCAM and participate in vascular mimicry”

Poster 14 – Hannah Harrison “Developing an In Vitro Model of Primary Breast Cancer Interactions with the Metastatic Niche”

Poster 15 - Wan Yong Ho “Tumour-regulatory and metastatic potential of miR-3934 in triple-negative breast cancer”

Poster 16 – Francesca Iommelli “Molecular mechanisms underlying the epithelial mesenchymal transition activation promoted by EGFR TKIs in NSCLC cells”

Poster 17 – Petra Jagušt “RET overexpression leads to increased brain metastatic competency in luminal breast cancer cells”

Poster 18 – Dina Mönch “MMP2/9 inhibition prevents peritoneal metastasis formation of colorectal and ovarian cancer cells in a human ex vivo peritoneum co-culture model”

This session will end at 18:20 CET so please make sure you give yourself enough time to browse each of the posters on display!

Poster Discussion Session 2: Wednesday 07 December 2022

12:30 – 13:30 CET

Before the main programme of scientific talks on Day 2 we will hold our second 60-minute ‘Virtual Poster Discussion Session’, showcasing even more posters submitted for the conference. Please make sure you have received the link to this meeting and that you have joined the session by 12:30 CET.

Posters on display:

Poster 19 – Jelena Korać Prlić “The antitumor effect of Shikonin in mouse urinary bladder cancer model”

Poster 20 – Aleksandra Markiewicz “Stromal content is the main confounder in the breast cancer molecular subtype-specific epithelial-mesenchymal transition program.”

Poster 21 – Paulina Marona “Hepatocellular carcinoma resistance to sorafenib – the role of MCPIP1 protein”

Poster 22 – Silvia Materna-Reichelt “Modelling interactions between niches and tumour cells to study metastasis-related pathways and to test drug efficacy”

Poster 23 – Mariana Nunes “Synergism Between Carboplatin and Repurposed Drugs in Chemoresistant High-Grade Serous Carcinoma”

Poster 24 – Olubukola Oyebode “Molecular targets of Calliandra portoricensis root bark in cancer cells”

Poster 25 – Hazel Quinn “Epigenetic placicity of disseminated cancer cell regulates latent disease in ER+ breast cancer”

Poster 26 – Branka Radic Sarikas “3D-models of pediatric bone sarcomas for personalized therapeutic screening”

Poster 27 – Belen Rivero Gutierrez “Characterization of the lymphovascular invasion microenvironment reveals immune response dichotomy”

Poster 28 – Charlotte Roelofs “MYC as a master regulator of dormancy in triple negative breast cancer”

Poster 29 – Mirja Rotinen “ONECUT2 promotes lineage plasticity of aggressive lung and breast cancer”

Poster 30 – Rebeca Sanz Pamplona “The role of the lung microenvironment in metastatic colorectal cancer”

Poster 31 – Sonja Schmidt “Comparative molecular analysis of proliferating versus dormant melanoma cells in 3D printed models”

Poster 32 – Yusra Siddiqui “Investigating how Human Papilloma Viruses (HPVs) affect prostate cancer progression”

Poster 33 – Bozena Smolkova “DNA Methylation Regulates Genes Involved in Uveal Melanoma Progression”

Poster 34 – Laura Wormser “12-O-tet-radecanoylphorbol-13-acetat induces epithelial-to-mesenchymal Transition in Hepatocellular Carcinoma Cells comparable to Transforming Growth Factor β 1”

Poster 35 – Derya Yıldız “The combinatorial drug repurposing strategy enhances cytotoxicity in hepatocellular carcinoma”

Poster 36 – Simin Zhang “β-arrestin signaling downstream orchestrate the uveal melanoma metastasis”

This session will end at 13:30 CET so please make sure you give yourself enough time to browse each of the posters on display!

There will then be a 30-minute break before we move over to Zoom Webinar for our second day of scientific talks.