Conference Program
 
RADIATION ONCOLOGY

January 30 - February 4, 2005
Crowne Plaza
Ventura, CA

Chair:
Elizabeth L. Travis

Vice Chair:
Simon N. Powell

We gratefully acknowledge contributions from the following supporters:

American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology
Department of Energy
Genentech, Incorporated
Gordon Research Conferences
Medimmune, Incorporated
Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Incorporated
National Institutes of Health
Radiation Research Society
Varian Medical Systems, Incorporated
Glaxo Smith Kline
Carl Storm underrepresented Minority Fellowships


SUNDAY
4:00 pm - 9:00 pmArrival and Check-in
6:00 pmDinner
7:15 pm Welcome and Introduction
7:30 pm - 9:30 pmMOLECULAR MECHANISMS OF BYSTANDER EFFECTS
7:30 pm - 7:40 pmDiscussion Leader: Bill Morgan (Bressler Research, University of Maryland)
7:40 pm - 8:10 pmZelanna Goldberg (UC Davis Cancer Center)
"Humans as the Model System: Examining the Low Dose Radiation Response"
8:10 pm - 8:40 pmKevin Prise (Gray Cancer Institute, Mt. Vernon Hospital)
"Mechanisms of the Bystander Response in Targeted Normal and Tumor Cells"
8:40 pm - 9:10 pmYuri Dubrova (University of Leicester)
"The Offspring of Irradiated Parents. Why Are They Unstable?"
9:10 pm - 9:30 pmSelected Short Presentations / General Discussion
9:30 pm -Welcome Reception
MONDAY
7:30 am - 8:30 amBreakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pmGENOMIC APPROACHES TO UNDERSTAND RADIATION SENSITIVITY AND GENOMIC STABILITY
9:00 am - 9:10 amDiscussion Leader: Martin Brown (Stanford University School of Medicine)
9:10 am - 9:40 amSally Amundson (Columbia University)
"Gene Expression Profiling of Radiation Response in Human Cells"
9:40 am - 10:10 amDavid Hill (Dana Farber Cancer Institute)
"Metazoan Interactome Maps: Elucidating Properties of Complex Systems"
10:10 am - 11:10 amCoffee Break / Photo Session
11:10 am - 11:40 amJames Brown (Stanford University)
"Clustering of Genome-Wide Quantitative Phenotypic Response Profiles and Maintenance of Genomic Fidelity to Determine Functional Pathways"
11:40 am - 12:00 pmSelected Short presentations
12:00 pm - 12:30 pmGeneral Discussion
12:30 pmLunch
1:30 pm - 4:30 pmFree Time
4:30 pm - 6:00 pmPoster Session
6:00 pmDinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pmTARGETING SIGNALING PATHWAYS
7:30 pm - 7:40 pmDiscussion Leader: Beverly Teicher (Genzyme Corporation)
7:40 pm - 8:10 pmAdam Dicker (Kimmel Cancer Center / Thomas Jefferson University)
"Tumor Microenvironment Modulate Radiosensitization to EGFR Blockade"
8:10 pm - 8:40 pmMukesh Nyati (University of Michigan)
"Modulation of Extracellular Receptor Kinase (Erk) by Radiation - New Role of ATM Kinase"
8:40 pm - 9:10 pmAdrienne Cox (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
"Regulation of Radiation Response by Ras and Rho Small GTPases"
9:10 pm - 9:30 pmSelected Short Presentations / General Discussion
TUESDAY
7:30 am - 8:30 amBreakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pmRADIATION INDUCED MICROENVIRONMENT INTERACTIONS
9:00 am - 9:10 amDiscussion Leader: Mary Helen Barcellos-Hoff (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
9:10 am - 9:40 amEric Neilson (Vanderbilt University School of Medicine)
"Mechanisms of Tissue Fibrogenesis with Special Reference to EMT"
9:40 am - 10:10 amValerie Weaver (University of Pennsylvania)
"Injury-Induced Spatial-Mechanical Regulation of Tissue Homeostasis"
10:10 am - 10:40 amCoffee Break
10:40 am - 11:10 amEric Wright (University of Dundee, Ninewells Hospital)
"Microenvironmental and Genetic Factors Influencing Radiation Responses in the Hemapoietic System"
11:10 am - 11:40 amAndrei Gudkov (The Lerner Research Institute / Cleveland Clinic Foundation)
"Latent TGF2 and Other Modulators of NF-B as Radioprotectants"
11:40 am - 12:00 pmSelected short presentations
12:00 pm - 12:30 pmGeneral Discussion
12:30 pmLunch
1:30 pm - 4:30 pmFree Time
4:30 pm - 6:00 pmPoster Session
6:00 pmDinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pmTHE IMPACT OF ENDOTHELIUM ON TUMOR RESPONSE TO RADIATION
7:30 pm - 7:40 pmDiscussion Leader: Richard Hill (Ontario Cancer Institute)
7:40 pm - 8:10 pmMark Dewhirst (Duke University)
"Tumor-endothelial Cell Interactions: Evidence for Paracrine Survival as Influenced by hypoxia and Radiotherapy"
8:10 pm - 8:40 pmRichard Kolesnick (Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center)
"The Vascular Component of Tumor Response to High Dose Radiation"
8:40 pm - 9:10 pmDennis Hallahan (Vanderbilt University)
"The Host Component of Cancer is a Biological Target for the Development of Radiosensitizers"
9:10 pm - 9:30 pmSelected Short Presentations / General Discussion
WEDNESDAY
7:30 am - 8:30 amBreakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pmSTEM CELLS IN REPAIR OF TISSUE INJURY
9:00 am - 9:10 amDiscussion Leader: Joel Greenberger (University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute)
9:10 am - 9:40 amMartin Korbling (UT MD Anderson Cancer Center)
"Sex-Mismatched Transplantation of Human Peripheral Blood-derived Stem Cells for Tissue Repair"
9:40 am - 10:10 amJoel Greenberger (University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute)
"Molecular and Cellular Mechanisms of Radiation Pulmonary Fibrosis"
10:10 am - 10:40 amCoffee Break
10:40 am - 11:10 amRoss Summer (Boston University)
"The Study of Lung Vascular Progenitors"
11:10 am - 11:40 amDavid Piwnica-Worms (Washington University School of Medicine)
"Imaging Cell Trafficking and Protein-Protein Interactions"
11:40 am - 12:00 pmSelected short presentations
12:00 pm - 12:30 pmGeneral Discussion
12:30 pmLunch
1:30 pm - 4:30 pmFree Time
4:30 pm - 6:00 pmPoster Session
6:00 pmDinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pmDNA/HISTONE MODIFICATION AND RADIATION RESPONSE
7:30 pm - 7:40 pmDiscussion Leader: Peggy Olive (British Columbia Cancer Research Center)
7:40 pm - 8:10 pmPhil Tofilon (National Cancer Institute)
"Histone Acetylation as a Target for Radiosensitization"
8:10 pm - 8:40 pmMarkus Lobrich (University of Saarlandes)
"Repair of DNA Double-Strand Breaks at Low Radiation Doses"
8:40 pm - 9:10 pmJunjie Chen (Mayo Clinic College of Medicine)
"Signaling of DNA Damage Responses"
9:10 pm - 9:30 pmSelected short presentations / General Discussion
THURSDAY
7:30 am - 8:30 amBreakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pmTHE UBIQUITIN/PROTEASOME SYSTEM IM CANCER THERAPY
9:00 am - 9:10 amDiscussion Leader: Bill McBride (UCLA Medical Center)
9:10 am - 9:40 amBrad Wouters (University of Maastricht)
"The Role of Novel Polyubiquitin Chains in Recovery from Replication Arrest"
9:40 am - 10:10 amFrank Pajonk (University of Freiburg)
"Proteasome Inhibition as a Means of Enhancing the Therapeutic Benefit of Cancer Therapy"
10:10 am - 11:00 amCoffee Break / Business Meeting
11:00 am - 11:30 amWilliam Kaelin (Dana Farber Cancer Institute)
"VHL, HIF, And Cancer"
11:30 am - 12:00 pmKelvin Davies (University of Southern California)
"Role of the Proteasome in Oxidative Stress"
12:00 pm - 12:30 pmSelected short presentations / General Discussion
12:30 pmLunch
1:30 pm - 4:30 pmFree Time
4:30 pm - 6:00 pmPoster Session
6:00 pmDinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pmNOVEL ORGANISMS FOR STUDYING RADIATION RESPONSE
Discussion Leader: Richard Kolesnick (Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center)
7:30 pm - 8:00 pmJohn Abrams (University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center)
"Dying Like Flies: Radiation Induced Cell Death in a Genetic Model"
8:00 pm - 8:30 pmWilliam Dynan (Medical College of Georgia, Institute of Molecular Medicine and Genetics)
"Radiation Injury and Radioprotection in the Zebra fish"
8:30 pm - 9:00 pmJoanne Weidhaas (Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center)
"Understanding EGFR/Ras-MAPK-Mediated Accelerated Repopulation Using a C.Elegans model"
9:00 pm - 9:30 pmJames Maller (University of Colorado School of Medicine)
"Centrosomes, Cell Cycle Checkpoints, and Oncogenic Kinases: Xenopus as a Model System"
FRIDAY
7:30 am - 8:30 amBreakfast
9:00 amDepart

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