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Saturday, September 9, 2006

 

  • La Grande Motte Congress Center
  • 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm, Registration
    6:45 pm - 9:30 pm, Welcome Reception (open to all attendees)

     

     

    Sunday, September 10, 2006

    CHECK-IN/REGISTRATION: 8:00 am- 9:00 am

    OPENING PROCEEDINGS

  • Jonathan J. Li, Ph.D. & Suresh Mohla, Ph.D. (USA)
  • 9:00 am - 9:05 am, Welcome
  • Dinah Singer, Ph.D., Director, Division of Cancer Biology, NCI (USA)
  • 9:05 am - 9:10 am, Opening Remarks
  • Henri Rochefort, M.D., Ph.D. & Thierry Maudelonde, M.D., Ph.D. (FRANCE)
  • 9:10 am - 9:15 am, Speaker Introduction

    PLENARY SPEAKER

  • Suresh Mohla, Ph.D. (USA):
  • 9:20 am - 9:25 am, Speaker Inroduction
  • I. Bernard Weinstein, M.D. (USA)
  • 9:25 am - 10:15 am, “Oncogene Addiction: A Rationale for Novel Anticancer Drugs and Targets”
    10:15 am - 10:30 am, BREAK

    CELLULAR ORIGINS OF ENDOCRINE-RELATED CANCERS

  • Chairpersons: Jonathan J. Li, Ph.D. (USA), Satyabrata Nandi, Ph.D. (USA)
  • 10:35 am - 10:40 am
  • Gilbert H. Smith, Ph.D. (USA):
  • 10:40 am - 11:10 am, “What About Stem Cells Marks Them Credible Candidates as Tumorigenic Targets?”
    11:10 am - 11:25 am, Discussion
  • Robert B. Clarke, Ph.D. (United Kingdom)
  • 11:25 am - 11:55 am, “The Origins of ER Positive and ER Negative Breast Cancer”
    11:55 am - 12:10 pm, Discussion
  • Hong Wu, M.D., Ph.D. (USA)
  • 12:10 pm - 12:40 pm, “PTEN, Prostate Cancer, and HRPC Development”
    12:40 pm- 12:45 pm, Discussion
    12:55 pm - 2:10 pm, Lunch

    SPECIAL LECTURE

  • Vivian Pinn, M.D., Director, Office of Research on Women's Health (USA)(USA)
  • 2:10 pm - 2:50 pm, Women's Health Research: Perspectives from the National Institutes of Health

    MITOTIC KINASES, CENTROSOME AMPLIFICATION, AND GENOMIC INSTABILITY

  • Chairpersons: William R. Brinkley, Ph.D. (USA) & Jeffrey Salisbury, Ph.D. (USA)
  • 2:50 pm - 2:55 pm
  • Wilma Lingle, Ph.D. (USA)
  • 2:55 pm - 3:25 pm, “Estrogen and Centrosome Amplification in Breast Cancer”
    3:25 pm - 3:40 pm, Discussion
  • Subrata Sen, Ph.D. (USA)
  • 3:40 pm - 4:10 pm, “Functional Significance of Aurora Kinase A in Centrosome Amplification & Genomic Instability”
    4:10 pm - 4:25 pm, Discussion
    4:25 pm - 4:40 pm, Break
  • Stefan Duensing, M.D. (USA)
  • 4:40 pm - 5:10 pm, “HPV-16 E7 and centriole duplication errors in cervical cancer: novel molecular insights and unexpected cellular mechanisms”
    5:10 pm - 5:25 pm, Discussion
     

     

    Monday, September 11, 2006

    STATE OF THE ART LECTURE

  • Michael F. Clarke, M.D. (USA)
  • 8:30 am - 9:15 am, “Self-renewal and Cancer Stem Cells”
    9:15 am - 9:30 am, Discussion

    NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN STEROID-RECEPTOR INTERACTIONS

  • Chairpersons: Elwood Jensen, Ph.D. (USA), Miguel Beato, M.D., Ph.D. (SPAIN)
  • 9:30 am - 9:35 am
  • Vincent Cavaillès, Ph.D. (FRANCE)
  • 9:35 am - 10:05 am, “Regulation of Hormone Signaling by Nuclear Receptor Interacting Proteins”
    10:05 am - 10:20 am, Discussion
    10:20 am - 10:40 am, Break
  • Raphael Metivier (FRANCE)
  • 10:40 am - 11:10 am, “Dynamics of ER-mediated Transcriptional Activation of a Responsive Gene In-vivo: Apprehending Transcription in Four Dimensions”
    11:10 am - 11:25 am, Discussion
  • Pascal Roger, M.D., Ph.D. (FRANCE)
  • 11:25 am- 11:55 am, “Estrogen Receptors Alpha and Beta Expression in Early Steps of Human Breast Carcinogenesis”
    11:55 am - 12:10 pm, Discussion
    12:10 pm – 1:25 pm, Lunch

    RISK ASSESSMENT AND RELEVANT EARLY BIOMARKERS

  • Chairpersons: Pradip Roy-Burman, Ph.D. (USA) and Marileila Varella-Garcia, Ph.D. (USA)
  • 1:25 pm – 1:30 pm
  • Ross L. Prentice, Ph.D., M.Sc., B.Sc. (USA)
  • 1:30 pm – 2:00 pm, “Women's Health Initiative Studies of Postmenopausal Hormone Therapy and Breast Cancer”
    2:00 pm – 2:15 pm, Discussion
  • Susan E. Hankinson, M.P.H., Sc.D. (USA)
  • 2:15 pm – 2:45 pm, “Endogenous Hormone Concentrations and Risk of Breast Cancer in Pre-menopausal Women”
    2:45 pm – 3:00 pm, Discussion
    3:00 pm – 3:15 pm, Break
  • Stephen G. Hillier, M.S., Ph.D., DSc, FRCPA (SCOTLAND)
  • 3:15 pm – 3:45 pm, “Ovulation and Ovarian Cancer”
    3:45 pm – 4:00 pm, Discussion
  • Elaine A. Ostrander (USA)
  • 4:00 pm – 4:30 pm, “Mapping Genes for Prostate Cancer Susceptibility”
    4:30 pm – 4:45 pm, Discussion
    6:00 pm – 8:30 pm, Tour of the 12th century Faculty of Medicine and cocktail (Open to all attendees)

     

     

    Tuesday, September 12, 2006

    STATE OF THE ART LECTURE

  • Gordon Mills, M.D., Ph.D. (USA)
  • 8:30 am - 9:15 am, “Ovarian Cancer: Linking Genomics to New Target Discovery and Molecular Markers: The Way Ahead”
    9:15 am - 9:30 am, Discussion

    NOVEL STRATEGIES FOR PREVENTION & TREATMENT OF ENDOCRINE-RELATED CANCERS

  • Chairpersons: James Pickar, M.D. (USA) and Shutsung Liao, Ph.D. (USA)
  • 9:30 am - 9:35 am
  • Christopher J. Logothetis, M.D. (USA)
  • 9:35 am - 10:05 am, “Novel Strategies to Treat Prostate Cancer”
    10:05 am - 10:20 am, Discussion
    10:20 am - 10:40 am, Break
  • Anthony Howell, M.B.B.S. (UNITED KINGDOM)
  • 10:40 am - 11:10 am, “Endocrine Prevention and Treatment of Breast Cancer”
    11:10 am - 11:25 am, Discussion
  • Sara Antonia Li, Ph.D. (USA)
  • 11:25 am- 11:55 am, “Estrogen-induced Oncogenesis: Modulation by an Aurora Kinase Inhibitor”
    11:55 am - 12:10 pm, Discussion
    12:10 pm – 1:25 pm, Lunch

    SPECIAL LECTURE

  • Henri Rochefort, M.D., Ph.D. (FRANCE)
  • 1:25 pm – 1:30 pm, Speaker introduction
  • Satyabrata Nandi, Ph.D. (USA)
  • 1:30 pm – 2:05 pm, Breast Cancer Biology: Conceptions, Misconceptions and new Concepts

    POSTER PRESENTATIONS

    2:10 pm - 4:30 pm, Poster Presentations
  • Oral Poster Presentation I Chairpersons: Sara Antonia Li, Ph.D. (USA) & Thierry Maudelonde, M.D., Ph.D. (FRANCE)
  • 4:30 pm – 4:40 pm, “The Curious Pharmacology of the Antiestrogens'," Elwood Jensen, Ph.D. (USA)
    4:40 pm – 4:43 pm, Discussion
    4:43 pm – 4:53 pm, “Identification of Downstream Targets of Estrogen and c-Myc in Breast Cancer Cells," Elizabeth Musgrove, Ph.D. (AUSTRALIA)
    4:53 pm – 4:56 pm, Discussion
  • Oral Poster Presentation II Chairpersons: Zoran Culig, M.D. (AUSTRIA) & Albert Brinkmann, Ph.D. (NETHERLANDS)
  • 4:56 pm – 5:06 pm, “Inactivation of Id-1 Gene Induces Sensitivity of Prostate Cancer Cells to Chemotherapeutic Drugs," Y.C. Wong, Ph.D. (CHINA)
    5:06 pm – 5:09 pm, Discussion
    5:09 pm – 5:19 pm, “Molecular Signatures Of Estrogen Receptor-Associated Genes In Breast Cancer Predict Clinical Outcome," James Wittliff, Ph.D. (USA)
    5:19 pm – 5:22 pm, Discussion

     

     

    Wednesday, September 13, 2006

    STATE OF THE ART LECTURE

  • Claude Prigent, Ph.D. (FRANCE)
  • 8:30 am - 9:15 am, “Aurora, Polo, Nek, Cdk1 the Mitotic Bodyguards”
    9:15 am - 9:30 am, Discussion

    HORMONE DEPENDENCY VERSUS HORMONE INDEPENDENCY

  • Chairpersons: Etienne Baulieu, M.D. (FRANCE) and Donald Tindall, Ph.D. (USA)
  • 9:30 am - 9:35 am
  • James Mohler, M.D. (USA)
  • 9:35 am - 10:05 am, “Recurrent Prostate Cancer is not Androgen-Independent”
    10:05 am - 10:20 am, Discussion
    10:20 am - 10:40 am, Break
  • Jean-Marc Vanacker, Ph.D. (FRANCE)
  • 10:40 am - 11:10 am, “Estrogen-Receptor Related (ERR) Alpha Orphan Receptor and Hormone Signaling”
    11:10 am - 11:25 am, Discussion
  • Nancy Weigel, Ph.D. (USA)
  • 11:25 am- 11:55 am, “Androgen Receptor and Co-regulator Action in Hormone Dependent and Hormone Independent Prostate Cancer”
    11:55 am - 12:10 pm, Discussion
    12:10 pm – 1:30 pm, Lunch

    EMERGING FIELDS: HORMONES & COLORECTAL AND LUNG CANCERS

  • Chairpersons: Janet Daling, Ph.D. (USA) and Henri Rochefort, M.D., Ph.D. (FRANCE)
  • 1:25 pm – 1:30 am
  • Polly A. Newcomb, Ph.D., MPH (USA)
  • 1:30 pm - 2:00 pm, “Why Hormones Protect Against Colorectal Cancer: Old Ideas, New Evidence”
    2:00 pm - 2:15 pm, Discussion
  • Alberto Muñoz, Ph.D. (SPAIN)
  • 2:15 pm – 2:45 pm, “Vitamin D and Colon Cancer”
    2:45 pm - 3:00 pm, Discussion
    3:00 pm - 3:20 pm, Break
  • Diana C. Márquez-Garbán, M.D. (USA)
  • 3:20 pm – 3:50 pm, “Estrogen Signaling Pathways in Human Lung Cancer"
    3:50 pm - 4:05 pm, Discussion

    CLOSING REMARKS

  • Suresh Mohla, Ph.D. (USA)
  • 4:05 pm – 4:15 pm, Closing Remarks

     

     

    Social Program Schedule

    Saturday, September 9, 2006

  • La Grande Motte Congress Center
  • 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm, Registration
    6:45 pm - 9:30 pm, Welcome Reception (open to all attendees)

     

    Monday, September 11, 2006

  • La Grande Motte Congress Center
  • 6:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m., Visit of the 12th century Faculty of Medicine of Montpellier with a cocktail. Open to all attendees and guests

    Symposium attendees: Take a shuttle from the Congress Center after last presentation

    Guests/Spouses: Walk to the Faculty of Medicine after the tour of Historic Montpellier is over.

     

    Tuesday, September 12, 2006

  • Symposium Dinner at Le Chteau de Pouget
  • 7:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m., Symposium Dinner at Le Chteau de Pouget
    Depart from La Grande Motte Congress Center
    Open only to Registered Guests/Spouses

     

    Tours for Registered Guests/Spouses

  • Monday, September 11, 2006
  • 3:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m., Guided tour of Historic Montpellier and shopping time
    Depart from La Grande Motte Congress Center

  • Tuesday, September 12, 2006
  • 1:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m., Visit of Saint Guilhem Le Desert (typical Middle Ages village)
    Depart from La Grande Motte Congress Center

     

     

     


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