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Program

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 17

Monday, NOVEMBER 18

Tuesday, NOVEMBER 19

Wednesday, NOVEMBER 20

Sunday, November 17

REGISTRATION

4-8 p.m.

Welcome and Introduction

5:30-6:15 p.m.

  • Mikala Egeblad, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, New York
  • Neta Erez, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
  • Sergei Grivennikov, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California
  • Ilaria Malanchi, The Francis Crick Institute, London, England

Opening Keynote Address

6:15-7 p.m. | CME Eligible

  • Introduction of keynote speaker
  • Title to be announced
    Ashani T. Weeraratna, John Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland
Monday, November 18

Continental Breakfast

7-8 a.m.

Plenary Session 1: Organ-Specific Microenvironments and Metastasis

8-10 a.m. | CME Eligible

  • Understanding and overcoming the numbers game that underlies disseminated tumor cell immune evasion
    Cyrus M.  Ghajar, Fred Hutch Cancer Center, Seattle, Washington
  • Title to be announced
    Ilaria Malanchi, The Francis Crick Institute, London, United Kingdom
  • Dissecting plasticity during colorectal cancer metastasis
    Karuna Ganesh, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York

Short talks from highly rated abstracts

Break

10-10:30 a.m.

Plenary Session 2: Systemic Macroenvironment and Metastasis: Effects of Aging and Stress

10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. | CME Eligible

  • Title to be announced
    Mikala Egeblad, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, New York
  • Understanding the immune macroenvironment to improve outcomes for older breast cancer patients
    Sandra S. McAllister, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA
  • Respiratory virus infections promote metastatic outgrowth through alterations in immune landscapes
    James V. DeGregori, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, Colorado

Short talks from highly rated abstracts

Lunch on Own

12:30-2:30 p.m.

Plenary Session 3: The Metabolic Microenvironment, including Immune Metabolism

2:30-4:30 p.m. | CME Eligible

  • Systemic and local metabolites controlling cancer immunity
    Greg M. Delgoffe, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
  • Modulating amino acid cross talk between cancer and the host to improve diagnosis and therapy
    Ayelet Erez, Weizman Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
  • Metabolic networks in the tumor microenvironment 
    Costas Lyssiotis, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan

Short talks from highly rated abstracts

Break

4:30-5 p.m.

Plenary Session 4: Metabolic Macroenvironment: Obesity and Cancer Cachexia

5-7 p.m. | CME Eligible

  • Intratumoral immune cells and their role in cancer cachexia
    Marcus DaSilva Gonsalves, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, New York
  • Lydia Lynch, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
  • Swarnali Acharya, Columbia University, New York, New York

Short talks from highly rated abstracts

Lightning Talks

7:30-9 p.m.

POSTER SESSION A AND RECEPTION

7-8:30 p.m.

Tuesday, November 19

Continental Breakfast

7-8 a.m.

Plenary Session 5: Stromal Changes as Tissue Becomes Tumor: The Expanding Functions of TME Components

8-10:15 a.m. | CME-Eligible

  • Neta Erez, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
  • Edna Cukierman, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
  • Kairbaan Hodivala-Dilke, Cancer Research UK, London, United Kingdom
  • Vascular control of metastasis
    Hellmut G. Augustin, Heidelberg University & German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) Heidelberg, Germany

Short talks from highly rated abstracts

BREAK

10:15-10:45 a.m.

Plenary Session 6: Multicellular Interactions within Tumor Immune Microenvironments

10:45 a.m-12:45 p.m. | CME-Eligible

  • Lisa Coussens, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, Oregon
  • Modulation of pancreatic tumor microenvironment and immune response
    Yulia Pylaeva-Gupta, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
  • Cedric Blanpain, Free University of Brussels, Brussels, Belgium 

Short talks from highly rated abstracts

Lunch on own

12:45-2:30 p.m.

Plenary Session 7: Inflammation, the Immune Microenvironment, and the Systemic Interface

2:30-4:30 p.m. | CME-Eligible

  • Title to be announced
    Leah M. Cook, Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska
  • Microbes and cytokines regulating tumor microenvironment and metastasis 
    Sergei Grivennikov, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California
  • Dissecting how breast tumours hijack myelopoiesis to promote metastasis
    Karin E. de Visser, Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Short talks from highly rated abstracts

LIGHTNING TALKS

4:30-5 p.m.

POSTER SESSION B AND RECEPTION

4:30-6 p.m.

Wednesday, November 20

Continental Breakfast

7-8 a.m.

Plenary Session 8: Microbiome and Immune Therapy

8-10 a.m. | CME-Eligible

  • Systemic and local metabolites controlling cancer immunity
    Susan Bullman, Fred Hutch Cancer Center, Seattle, Washington
  • Florencia McAllister, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas
  • Giorgio Trinchieri, National Institute of Health, Bethesda, Maryland

Short talks from highly rated abstracts

BREAK

10-10:30 a.m.

Plenary Session 9: Therapy-induced Changes in Organ-specific Microenvironment and Therapeutic Strategies for Targeting the TME

10:30 a.m-12:30 p.m. | CME-Eligible

  • Title to be announced
    Adrienne Boire, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York
  • Age-related stromal changes drive tumorigenesis
    Sheila A. Stewart, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri
  • Implicit order, disease, and cancer 
    Garry P. Nolan, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California

Short talks from highly rated abstracts

CLOSING REMARKS

12:30 p.m.