Dive into the World of Cancer Biology - 5th CoMo Educational Symposium

Date: 27.10.2022

Place: Unioninkatu 35, Aud 116

Registration (open until 16:00 on 25.10.22): https://elomake.helsinki.fi/lomakkeet/118889/lomake.html

Program

9:00 Welcome words

Satu Kuure, GM-unit Coordinator, University of Helsinki

Session I

9:10 "Translational cancer biology: pro-metastatic mechanisms and CAR-T cell therapies"

Päivi Ojala, University of Helsinki

9:40 "Trunk neural crest enriched MOXD1 is a novel tumor suppressor gene in neuroblastoma"

Sophie Mohlin, Lund University

10:10 "Exploiting model organisms to interrogate ALK signaling in neuroblastoma"

Ruth Palmer, Göteborg University, Sweden

10:40 Coffee

11:00 "Targeting vulnerabilities in malignant brain tumous"

Pirjo Laakkonen, University of Helsinki

11:30 "Zebrafish core service introduction"

Henri Koivula, University of Helsinki

12:00 Lunch (included)

Session II

13:15-14:15 "How the Choice of Animal Model can Positively Affect the Reproducibility of Research"

Minttu-Maria Martikainen, Scanbur

14:15 "Systemic tumor homing peptides: identification and preclinical development for cancer imaging and therapy"

Tambet Teesalu, University of Tartu

15:00 Coffee

15:30 "Barriers to replicating preclinical cancer biology research - challenges or opportunities?"

Tim Errington, Center for Open Science, Charlottesville, United States (zoom)

16:15 "Culture change toward more open, rigorous, and reproducible research"

Brian Nosek, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, United States (zoom)

17:00 Closing remarks

Vootele Voikar, University of Helsinki

Organizers: Satu Kuure (satu.kuure at helsinki.fi) Vootele Voikar (vootele.voikar at helsinki.fi) and Pirjo Laakkonen