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Date: 20 November 2007

Venue: ICMS, Queen Mary's University London

Chairperson: Prof. Ian Mackenzie (QMUL)

Registration fee: £50 + VAT

(Please note VAT is applicable to the registration fees)

Registration deadline: Friday 2 November.

9.00 - 9.30

Registration with tea and coffee (Old Library)

9.30 – 9.40

Introduction - Professor Tom MacDonald

9.40 – 10.10

Malcolm Alison (Queen Mary, University of London)

Recent advances in cancer stem cells

Session 1 - Basic models for cancer stem cells

Chair: Ian Mackenzie

10.10 – 10.40

Dave Langenau (Children's Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School)

Identifying the Cancer Stem Cell in Transgenic Models of Zebrafish Rhabdomyosarcoma

10.40 - 11.10

John Stingl (University of Cambridge)

Mammary stem cells and the breast cancer stem cell hypothesis

11.10 – 11.40

Dennis Roop (University of Colorado)

The isolation and characterization of skin cancer stem cells

11.40 – 12.10

Silvia Marino (Queen Mary, University of London)

Neural stem cells, tumour stem cells and brain tumour: Dangerous relationships?

12.10 – 13.30

Lunch - Old Library

Session 2 – Human systems

Chair: Mike Curtis

13.30 – 14.00

Keith Brennan (University of Manchester)

Notch signalling in human breast cancer

14.00 – 14.30

Kim Jensen (University of Cambridge)

Stem cell gene expression profile of human squamous cell carcinomas

14.30 – 15.00

Anne Collins (University of York)

Evidence for a stem cell hierarchy in prostate cancer

15.00 – 15.30

David Prowse (Queen Mary, University of London)

Wnt signalling in prostate cancer stem cells

15.30 – 16.10

Tea and coffee break

Session 3 – Human Systems continued

Chair: Malcolm Alison

16.10 – 16.40

Simon Leedham (CRUK)

Expansion of a mutant clone – from stem cell to colon cancer

16.40 – 17.10

Tarik Enver (Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Oxford)

Leukaemic Stem Cells

17.10 – 17.40

Ian Mackenzie (Queen Mary, University of London)

Cancer cell lines as models of malignant stem cell behaviour

17.40 – 18.10

Nicol Keith (Beatson Laboratories, University of Glasgow)

Translational opportunities in signalling and cellular immortality

18.10 – 19.30

Reception