Day 3
THURSDAY 29 May 2025
All talks will take place in the IMAX Theatre, Glasgow Science Centre.
Refreshments will be available on arrival.
SESSION 7
CHAIR
Vicky Cowling
Ramanuj DasGupta, CRUK Scotland Institute & University of Glasgow
”Mapping trajectories of therapy-induced tumour evolution in space and time”
9:30
10:00
Tony Ly, University of Dundee
”Breaking the cycle: mechanisms that underpin proliferation-dormancy switches”
Jernej Ule, King’s College London
”PRMT activity promotes global 3’ UTR shortening in proliferating cells”
Sponsored by:
10:30
Refreshment break - Atrium
11:00
SESSION 8
CHAIR
Kendle Maslowski
Karuna Ganesh, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
”Dissecting plasticity during metastasis”
11:30
Short Talks
Lisa Duff, CRUK Scotland Institute
”A translational pipeline for quantitative PET analysis of whole-body metabolism: characterising metabolic dysregulation in cancer cachexia”
12:00
Jana Travnickova, University of Edinburgh
”Role of cancer-associated fibroblasts in melanoma residual disease”
12:30
Lunch - Atrium
SESSION 9
CHAIR
Ed Roberts
Short Talk
Luis Pardo-Fernandez, CRUK Scotland Institute
”Increased mRNA translation delays lung adenocarcinoma initiation and exposes a therapeutic vulnerability to MEK inhibitors”
13:15
Kathryn Lilley, University of Cambridge
”The study of cell wide protein relocalisation to understand therapy resistance mechanisms”
13:30
14:00
Marco Fritzsche, The Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology
”Engineering new technology to harvest the physics of T-cell to control the human immune response”
Ken S. Lau, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
”Crypt stem cells and non-crypt cells in colorectal tumour initiation”
14:30
Refreshment break - Atrium
15:00
SESSION 10
CHAIR
Gareth Inman
Short Talk
Raheleh Amirkhah, Queen's University Belfast
”Deciphering intestinal zonation and its role in tumour initiation, evolution and progression in mouse models of colorectal cancer”
15:30
Rong Fan, Yale University
”Spatially exploring RNA regulation and epigenetics in human lymphoma FFPE specimens”
15:45
Best Poster / Short Talk Prize Announcement
Sponsored by:
16:15
Closing remarks
Owen Sansom, Director of CRUK Scotland Institute
16:30
Close
16:45