Spring TRANSPAN Early Career Stage Investigators’ Workshop for Research in Pancreatic Cancer and Rare Pancreatic Neoplasms

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Spring TRANSPAN Early Career Stage Investigators’ Workshop for Research in Pancreatic Cancer and Rare Pancreatic Neoplasms

Informations

This workshop is specifically designed for young researchers. This is a PRE-ANNOUNCEMENT call for applications, and further details will be communicated via email and our social media channels in the next few hours and days.

It is dedicated to PhD students and post-docs without a faculty/permanent position, and it is entitled “Spring TRANSPAN Early Career Investigators’ Workshop for Research in Pancreatic Cancer and Rare Pancreatic Neoplasms”.

 The workshop will be held in Padova (Italy) on April 17th, 2024 (one full day).

Venue: Palazzo della Salute, Via San Francesco 90, 35121 Padova.

Participants will have the chance to present their ongoing projects on several topics related to the TRANSPAN mission and the focus of this year’s workshop, “Pancreatic Cancer and Rare Pancreatic Neoplasms”. These sessions will led by experienced mentors from different research fields.

For the upcoming TRANSPAN event, we will financially support up to 12 participants. They can claim reimbursement up to 450€ for travel expenses and 150€ per day as a maximum daily allowance. Please read the reimbursement COST rules.

In addition, we welcome up to 10-15 more participants who can attend the meeting without reimbursement.

For more details, please check your mail and our social media pages during the next few days.

If you are interested in attending, please fill out the application form at this link.

[link: https://forms.gle/KdLjHa1mU6RDa4SMA ]

The deadline for submitting your application is March 15th, 2024. Your application will be evaluated by the workshop organizer and a group of selected specialists based on the quality of your CV and the content of your motivation letter.

The results of the evaluation will be announced before March 21st, 2024. If you are selected to participate in the workshop, your abstract will be published in a Special Issue of Frontiers in Oncology (IF 4.7), along with the abstract selected for the workshop of 2023.

We strongly believe this workshop is a great opportunity for early career stage investigators to build new connections and to start new collaborative projects within the Action and beyond.

Best regards

 

The workshop organization.

Scientific Committee

Prof. Claudio Pasquali, Dr. Anna Caterina Milanetto, Dr. Manuel Gentiluomo, Dr. Stefania Bunduc

 

 

P.S.

in case of problems with the form, contact manuel.gentiluomo@biologia.unipi.it

Scientific Committee and Mentors
Scientific Committee

Anna Caterina Milanetto (Host)

Claudio Pasquali (Host)

Manuel Gentiluomo (Italy)

Stefania Bunduc (Romania)

Mentors

Eithne Costello (Liverpool, UK)

Maria Del Pilar Acedo Nuñez (London, UK)

Justo Pastor Castaño Fuentes (Cordoba, Spain)

Program

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08.00 – 08.30 Registration and Welcome
08.30 – 08.45

Welcome to COST action TRANSPAN

Manuel Gentiluomo and Stefania Bunduc

 
08.45 – 09.00

Welcome to Padova: the cradle of modern medicine

Anna Caterina Milanetto and Claudio Pasquali
SESSION I “Non-invasive biomarkers”
9.00 – 9.20

“The long way from mentee to mentor”

Eithne Costello, United Kingdom
9.20 – 9.45 “SERS-based immunosensor for pancreatic cancer biomarker MUC4 detection in serum”
Speaker: Ayse Mine Saridag, Turkey
9.45 – 10.10 “Cost-benefit analysis of biomarker-driven early detection of pancreatic cancer in individuals with new-onset diabetes”
Speaker: Irena Stefanova, United Kingdom
10.10 – 10.35 “Assessing the aggressiveness of pancreatic cancer and its liver metastatic potential through the study of exosomes and new exosomes-related biomarkers”
Speaker: Annalisa Comandatore, Italy
10.35 – 11.00 “Circulating tumor cells profiling in patients with pancreatic lesions”
Speaker: Ioanna Angelioudaki, Greece

 

11.00 – 11.30

 

 Coffee Break
SESSION II “Disease risk profiling”
11.30 – 11.50

“The long way from mentee to mentor”

Justo Pastor Castaño Fuentes, Spain
11.50 – 12.15 “Integrating familial data for pancreatic cancer risk assessment through multiomic analysis”
Speaker: Elif Öz, Turkey
12.15 – 12.40 “Evidence of causality between circulating metabolites, gut microbiome and pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma risk: a Mendelian randomization study”
Speaker: Riccardo Farinella, Italy
12.40 – 14.30 Lunch Break: free lunch in Padova city center
SESSION III “Functional genomics and therapy”
14.30 – 14.50

“The long way from mentee to mentor”

Maria Del Pilar Acedo Nuñez, United Kingdom
14.50 – 15.15 “Cancer stem cell-derived PGLYRP1 induces tumor microenvironment remodelling and immune suppression in pancreatic cancer”
Speaker: Juan Carlos López-Gil, Spain
15.15 – 15.40 “Development of a co-culture model to study the effect of cGAS/STING immune activation pathway in pancreatic periampullary intestinal adenocarcinoma”
Speaker: Panagiotis Sarametidis, Ireland
15.40 – 16.05 “Exploring aryl hydrocarbon receptor modulation in peripheral blood mononuclear cells: implications for pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma immune dysregulation”
Speaker: Arenida Bartkeviciene, Lithuania
16.05 – 16.30 “Influence of TGF-β1 on pancreatic cancer cell proliferation and expression of selected proteins involved in epithelial-mesenchymal transition”
Speaker: Oskar Szafrański, Poland

 

16.30 – 17.00

 

 Coffee Break
SESSION IV “Tumor profiling”
17.00 – 17.20

“Best publications on pancreatic NETs: what’s new in the field of basic science?”

Justo Pastor Castaño Fuentes, Spain
17.20 – 17.45 “Distinct spliceosomic profiles provide novel insights on pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor biology”
Speaker: Sergio Pedraza-Arevalo, Spain
17.45 – 18.10 “A possible link between RNA methylation and splicing in pancreas carcinoids”
Speaker: Daniel Ruiz Palacios, Spain
18.10 – 18.30

Final remarks and Conclusions

(Scientific Committee and Mentors)

 

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