Day 3
WEDNESDAY 24 JUNE 2026
SESSION 4
Enabling and disabling metastasis by innate immune cells
(part 1)
Chair:
Leo Carlin
All talks will take place at Cancer Research UK Scotland Institute.
Welcome
09:15
09:20
Tim Halim, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute
“ILC2 regulate a fibroblast progenitor niche in the pancreas”
Short talk 7 - Aitana Guiseris Martinez, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ)
"An oncofetal immune-regulatory cancer cell state drives immune evasion during early metastasis"
09:50
Rahul Roychoudhuri, University of Cambridge
"Immune interception of cancer metastasis"
Sponsored by:
10:05
Lai Guan Ng, School of Medicine, Westlake University
"Neutrophils: born different, adapted for purpose"
10:35
Comfort break
11:05
Short talk 8 - Gemma Cairns, Cancer Research UK Scotland Institute
"Integrin activation-dependent neutrophil slowing obstructs the capillaries of the pre-metastatic lung in a model of breast cancer"
11:30
Ilaria Malanchi, The Francis Crick Institute
"Innervation-driven cellular priming"
11:45
Short talk 9 - Leqi Tang, University of Cambridge
"Hyperactivation of phosphoinositide 3-kinase delta (PI3Kδ) in T cells mediates IFNγ-dependent protection from lung metastasis"
12:15
Poster taster session
Jing Xuan Lim / Ross McInnes / Alicia Nieto Valle / Paul Moritz Tarlatt / Catherine Winchester / Celine Wittke
12:30
Poster session & Trade exhibition (lunch included)
13:00
SESSION 4
Enabling and disabling metastasis by innate immune cells
(part 2)
Chair:
Colin Steele
Adrienne Boire, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
“Cancer cells mimic macrophages to overcome the blood-CSF-barrier”
15:00
Keynote speaker
Karin E. de Visser, Netherlands Cancer Institute
"Eosinophils as unexpected regulators of anti-tumor immunity"
Sarah Walmsley, University of Edinburgh
"Repairing neutrophil immunity"
15:30
16:00
Conclude day 3
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.
17:00
Ceilidh Dinner @ Òran Mór (entry by ticket only)
19:30