Radiation Science in the Netherlands: 2nd International NVRB Symposium
Radiation Science in the Netherlands: 2nd Symposium
Thursday April 19, 2012
8.30‐10.00 Registration with Coffee at Boston 9
10.00 Opening by the NVRB president Rob Coppes (hall Boston 17‐19)
Key Note Lecture
10.05‐10.45 Steve Jackson (Cambridge University, UK)
Cellular responses to DNA damage: new molecular insights and new approaches to cancer therapy
DNA Damage Response
Chair: Conchita Vens
10.45‐11.15 Peter O’Neill (Gray Institute, Oxford)
Tracking down the radiation effects of clustered DNA damage
11.15‐11:40 Haico van Attikum (LUMC, Leiden)
Chromatin remodeling in response to chromosomal DNA breaks
11.40‐12.05 Thomas Helleday (Karolinska Institute, Sweden)
Targeting homologous recombination for radiosensitization in fractionated radiotherapy
12.05‐12.25 proffered paper: Louise von Stechow (Leiden University)
DNA‐damage‐induced Wnt‐signaling through downregulation of Csnk1a1 attenuates p53‐mediated
apoptosis in pluripotent stem cells
12.30‐13.30 Lunch in Boston 9
Stem Cells
Chair: Klaas Franken
13.30‐14.00 Pier Guiseppe Pelicci (IFOM‐IEO, Milan, Italy)
Regulation of self‐renewal in cancer stem cells
14.00‐14.25 Sarah Pringle (UMC Groningen)
The development of a salivary gland stem cell therapy for radiation‐induced hyposalivation
14.25‐14.50 Louis Vermeulen (LexoR, AMC‐UVA, Amsterdam)
The developing of a cancer stem cell model
14.50‐15.10 proffered paper: Barry Jütten (MaastRO lab, Maastricht)
Inhibition of autophagy abrogates the proliferation and survival advantages of EGFRvIII expressing cells
under metabolic stress
Chair: Rob Coppes
15.10‐15.40 NVRB Young Investigator Award sponsored by XStrahl:
Twan van den Beucken (MaastRO lab, Maastricht)
New opportunities for targeting tumor hypoxia
Poster Session & NVRB workshop
16.00‐18.30 Poster session in Boston 9 with drinks sponsored by RPS
19.00 Dinner at Dali Restaurant of NH Conference Centre
20.45‐22.00 NVRB workshop at Cheers Sport Cafe (entrance next to Boston 9) at NH Conference Centre
22.00‐1.00 Party