Day 1
Tuesday 27 May 2025
All talks will take place in the IMAX Theatre, Glasgow Science Centre.
Registration: 0815 - 0915 (Atrium). Refreshments will be available on arrival.
SESSION 1
CHAIR
Philip Dunne
17:15 - 17:30
Conclude day 1 and close
Welcome Address - Cancer Research UK Scotland Institute
Kevin Ryan, Chair of BICC Scientific Committee
Crispin Miller, Co-chair of BICC Scientific Committee
09:15
Trevor Graham, The Institute of Cancer Research
”Inferring cancer evolutionary dynamics at clinical scale”
09:30
Rachael Natrajan, The Institute of Cancer Research
”Rationalising the epigenetic and transcriptional heterogeneity in therapy resistant triple negative breast cancer”
Sponsored by:
10:00
Sabine Tejpar, KU Leuven
”Emerging concepts on wnt driven, fetal like and inflamed cells in colorectal cancer”
10:30
Refreshment break - Atrium
11:00
SESSION 2
CHAIR
Alex Pancheva
Short Talks
Mikaela Behm, The German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ)
”Mutation shedding and a tumour hostile niche protect naked mole-rats against cancer”
11:30
Edward Esiri-Bloom, University of Edinburgh
”Long-read sequencing detects novel structural variants and complex rearrangements in high-serous ovarian cancer”
ECR Invited Speaker
Mirjana Efremova, Barts Cancer Institute
”Phenotypic heterogeneity and plasticity in colorectal cancer metastasis”
12:00
Poster Taster Session
Kirsteen Campbell
Rodrigo García-Tejera
Jasmine Ho
Harsimran Kaur
David MacLean
Joshua Moore
12:45
Lunch - Atrium
13:00
Poster Session and Trade Exhibition - Atrium
13:30
SESSION 3
CHAIR
Seth Coffelt
Simon Leedham, University of Oxford
”Using spatial biology to understand cell interactions in colorectal neoplasia”
Sponsored by:
15:30
Sir George Beatson Lecture
Scott W. Lowe, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
”Rewiring tumour-stroma interactions by targeting senescent-like cell states”
16:00
Sara A. Wickström, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine
"Phenotype and cell state dynamics in cancer”
16:30
Speakers' Dinner (19:30, by invitation only) and evening at leisure.