Day 2
TUESDAY 23 JUNE 2026
SESSION 2
Outside in: how microbiota shape cancer progression
Chair:
Kendle Maslowski
All talks will take place at Cancer Research UK Scotland Institute.
Welcome
Registration
08:15
09:15
09:20
Roger Geiger, Institute for Research in Biomedicine and Technical University, Germany
Enhancing antitumor T cell function through bacterial therapeutics and CRISPR screening
Short talk 3 - Lena Schorr, German Cancer Research Center
"Chronic bacterial exposure drives progressive epithelial reprogramming and promotes metastasis-relevant phenotypes in colorectal cancer"
09:50
Federica Facciotti, University of Milano-Bicocca
“The gut microbiota–iNKT cell axis as a critical regulator of colorectal cancer pathogenesis”
10:05
Wendy Garrett, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
"The gut microbiota, immunity and colon cancer"
10:35
Comfort break
11:05
SESSION 3
The lymph node as ground zero for anti-tumour immunity
(part 1)
Chair:
Alison Galloway
Short talk 4 - Kunal Reshamwala, Cancer Research UK Scotland Institute
"Deciphering the role of lymph node immune memory in cancer metastasis"
Santiago Zelenay, Cancer Research UK Manchester Institute
"The dual role of inflammation in the immune control of metastasis"
11:30
12:00
12:15
Short talk 5 - Christopher Jones, University of Manchester
"Radiotherapy promotes the recruitment and activation of intra-tumoural DCs and enhances CD64+CCR7+ cDC2 egress to the draining lymph node"
Poster taster session
Joe Bellotti / Baptiste Brauge / Rashmi Gibikote Nagendra / Natalie Phinney / Sophie Rogers / Sarah Williams
12:30
Poster session & Trade exhibition (lunch included)
13:00
SESSION 3
The lymph node as ground zero for anti-tumour immunity
(part 2)
Chair:
Ed Roberts
Tech talk - Transnetyx
15:00
Short talk 6 - Nabina Pun, University of Oxford
"Real time tracking of cell fate reveals constant and rapid replenishment of tumour associated macrophages from circulating monocytes"
Amanda W. Lund, NYU Grossman School of Medicine
"Lymphatic circuits regulate persistent anti-tumor immune surveillance"
15:15
15:45
Keynote speaker
John Wherry, University of Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine
"Immune pharmacology of PD-1 blockade"
16:00
Conclude day 2
Coaches will be available from the Institute to the West End (Byres Road) and the city centre (Killermont Street, adjacent to Buchanan Bus Station) for delegates and speakers.
Speakers’ dinner (19:30 by invitation only) and evening at leisure.
17:00