8th Annual Helsinki Biomedical Graduate Program Student Council Symposium
CELLULAR MICROENVIRONMENT
Speakers and their talk titles
SESSION 1: Cell Migration
Johanna Ivaska (Turku Centre for Biotechnology, Finland)
Integrin activity and filopodia regulate invasion and matrix remodeling in cancer
Roberto Mayor (London's Global University, UK)
Directional migration of mesenchymal cells: the case of the neural crest
Stefan Linder (University Medical Center Eppendorf, Germany)
Transport of MT1-MMP controls podosome-based matrix degradation and is regulated by kinesin motors and RabGPases"
Valerie M. Weaver (University of California, USA)
The dynamic interplay between extrinsic and intrinsic force regulates cancer progression
Véronique Le Cabec (Université de Toulouse, France)
Macrophage migration in 3-dimensional environments
SESSION 2: Extracellular Cues
Roland Wenger (University of Zurich, Switzerland)
Sensing and signalling environmental hypoxia
João Taborda Barata (Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal)
Signals from the outside, signals from within:IL-7 and IL-7R in acute T-cell leukemia
Henrik Semb (Danish stem cell center, Denmark)
Polarity is fate
Florian Rehfeldt (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany)
Stem Cell Cytoskeleton Structure and Nuclear Morphology is Dictated by Matrix Mechanics
SESSION 3: Targeting ECM in disease
Vladimir Berezin (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
Jin and Jang of a metastatic protein
Kim Midwood (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, UK)
Control of the inflammatory axis by the extracellular matrix
Janine Erler (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
Lysyl oxidases in cancer progression
Liliana Schaefer (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
Small leucine-rich proteoglycans orchestrate receptor crosstalk duringinflammation
Joanna J. Phillips (University of California, USA)
Proteoglycans regulate oncogenic signaling in brain cancer
Olga Tatti (University of Helsinki, Finland)
MT3-MMP controls a proteolytic switch between blood vascular and lymphatic
invasion of melanoma cells
Wei Zheng (University of Helsinki, Finland)
Angiopoietin-2 regulates the maturation of lymphatic endothelial junctions and
valves and maintains lymphatic vessel integrity during development
SESSION 4: Cellular Communication
Peter Krammer (Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, Germany)
CD95 mediated Life and Death Decisions
Cedric Gaggioli (Institute For Research On Cancer And Aging, France)
Tumor-Stroma Crosstalk in Invasive Carcinoma
Raphael Kopan (Washington University School of Medicine, USA)
Unintended consequences: How losing Notch signaling in the skin taught
us about tumor promotion and tumor resistance
Catherine Muller (Université de Toulouse, France)
Adipose Tissue and Cancer cells : a dangerous dynamic duo
Nienke Vrisekoop (Hubrecht Institute, the Netherlands)
Intravital imaging of tumor cells and their microenvironment
CELLULAR MICROENVIRONMENT
Speakers and their talk titles
SESSION 1: Cell Migration
Johanna Ivaska (Turku Centre for Biotechnology, Finland)
Integrin activity and filopodia regulate invasion and matrix remodeling in cancer
Roberto Mayor (London's Global University, UK)
Directional migration of mesenchymal cells: the case of the neural crest
Stefan Linder (University Medical Center Eppendorf, Germany)
Transport of MT1-MMP controls podosome-based matrix degradation and is regulated by kinesin motors and RabGPases"
Valerie M. Weaver (University of California, USA)
The dynamic interplay between extrinsic and intrinsic force regulates cancer progression
Véronique Le Cabec (Université de Toulouse, France)
Macrophage migration in 3-dimensional environments
SESSION 2: Extracellular Cues
Roland Wenger (University of Zurich, Switzerland)
Sensing and signalling environmental hypoxia
João Taborda Barata (Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal)
Signals from the outside, signals from within:IL-7 and IL-7R in acute T-cell leukemia
Henrik Semb (Danish stem cell center, Denmark)
Polarity is fate
Florian Rehfeldt (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany)
Stem Cell Cytoskeleton Structure and Nuclear Morphology is Dictated by Matrix Mechanics
SESSION 3: Targeting ECM in disease
Vladimir Berezin (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
Jin and Jang of a metastatic protein
Kim Midwood (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, UK)
Control of the inflammatory axis by the extracellular matrix
Janine Erler (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
Lysyl oxidases in cancer progression
Liliana Schaefer (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
Small leucine-rich proteoglycans orchestrate receptor crosstalk duringinflammation
Joanna J. Phillips (University of California, USA)
Proteoglycans regulate oncogenic signaling in brain cancer
Olga Tatti (University of Helsinki, Finland)
MT3-MMP controls a proteolytic switch between blood vascular and lymphatic
invasion of melanoma cells
Wei Zheng (University of Helsinki, Finland)
Angiopoietin-2 regulates the maturation of lymphatic endothelial junctions and
valves and maintains lymphatic vessel integrity during development
SESSION 4: Cellular Communication
Peter Krammer (Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, Germany)
CD95 mediated Life and Death Decisions
Cedric Gaggioli (Institute For Research On Cancer And Aging, France)
Tumor-Stroma Crosstalk in Invasive Carcinoma
Raphael Kopan (Washington University School of Medicine, USA)
Unintended consequences: How losing Notch signaling in the skin taught
us about tumor promotion and tumor resistance
Catherine Muller (Université de Toulouse, France)
Adipose Tissue and Cancer cells : a dangerous dynamic duo
Nienke Vrisekoop (Hubrecht Institute, the Netherlands)
Intravital imaging of tumor cells and their microenvironment