Sessions: long talks (45’ including questions) and short talks (25’ including questions).

Monday October 25

9:30 – 10:00 Welcome

Session 1: Chemical biology for cancer therapy

10:00 – 10:45 Raphaël Rodriguez – Institut Curie, Paris (France)
“Reprogramming the reactivity of iron in cancer” – Abstract
10:45 – 11:10 Thierry Virolle – Institut de Biologie Valrose, Nice (France)
“Targeting Glioblastoma stem cell plasticity : toward an innovative and efficient anti-cancer stem cell therapy” – Abstract
11:10 – 11:35 Méliné Simsir – Institut de Pharmacologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire & Inria, Sophia Antipolis (France)
“On the drug export mechanism by efflux pump Patched” – Abstract
11:35 -11:45 Le Canceropôle PACA
11:45 – 11:55 Société Française du Cancer

Lunch

Session 2: Personalized and translational medicine

13:30 – 14:15 Alfonso Valencia – Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Barcelona (Spain)
“Molecular basis of disease comorbidities” – Abstract
14:15 – 15:00 Florian Markowetz – University of Cambridge, Cambridge (UK)
“A pan-cancer compendium of chromosomal instability“

Break

Session 3: Mathematical models of tumor growth

15:20 – 16:05 Dirk Drasdo – Inria, Paris (France)
“Quantitative single-cell-based modeling reveals predictable response of growing tumor spheroids on external mechanical stress” – Abstract
16:05 – 16:30 Kévin Atsou – Inria, Sophia Antipolis & Laboratoire J.-A. Dieudonné, Nice (France)
“A size and space structured model for tumors and immune cell interactions” – Abstract
16:30 – 16:55 Sébastien Benzekry – Inria, Sophia Antipolis & Centre de Recherche en Cancérologie de Marseille, Marseille (France)
“Quantitative modeling of metastasis: cancer at the organism scale” – Abstract

Tuesday October 26

Session 4: Network and systems biology of cancer

9:15 – 10:00 Noël Malod-Dognin – Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Barcelona (Spain)
“Towards a data-integrated cell” – Abstract
10:00 – 10:45 Anaïs Baudot – Marseille Medical Genetics, Marseille (France)
“Mining and modeling networks to study diseases” – Abstract

Break

Session 5: Response to cancer treatment

11:00 – 11:45 Jean Clairambault – Inria, Paris (France)
“A modelling view on drug resistance in cancer, reversible or not, and how to circumvent it” – Abstract
11:45 – 12:10 Jérémie Roux – Institute for Research on Cancer and Aging, Nice (France) / Madalena Chaves – Inria, Sophia Antipolis (France)
“Modeling cell response heterogeneity to cancer treatment” – Abstract
12:10 – 12:35 Gilles Bernot & Jean-Paul Comet – Laboratoire d’Informatique, Signaux et Systèmes, Sophia Antipolis (France)
“Towards a qualitative understanding of Cancer metabolism” – Abstract

Lunch

Session 6: Industrial transfer: local success stories