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Mammary Gland Biology (GRS)

Gordon Research Seminar

Branching Toward New Horizons in Development and Disease

June 7 - 8, 2014
Chairs Lisa M. Arendt and Irina S. Babina
Renaissance Tuscany Il Ciocco
Via Giovanni Pascoli
Lucca (Barga), Lucca, Italy
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Conference Description

The Gordon Research Seminar on Mammary Gland Biology is a unique forum for graduate students, post-docs, and other scientists with comparable levels of experience and education to present and exchange new data and cutting edge ideas.

The focus of this meeting is to discuss research at the forefront of mammary gland biology in regards to the regulation of normal mammary gland growth and development as well as dysregulation during tumorigenesis. The goal of this seminar is provide young scientists with a forum to present their current research, develop a network to establish future collaborations, and exchange mentorship advice in preparation for the next steps in their career paths.

Related Meeting

This GRS will be held in conjunction with the "Mammary Gland Biology" Gordon Research Conference (GRC). Those interested in attending both meetings must submit an application for the GRC in addition to an application for the GRS. Refer to the associated GRC program page for more information.

Conference Program

SATURDAY
1:30 pm - 4:30 pmArrival and Check-in
3:00 pm - 3:15 pmIntroductory Comments by GRC Site Staff / Welcome by the GRS Conference Chair
3:15 pm - 4:00 pmRegulation of Mammary Gland Development and Function
Discussion Leader: Rachel Zwick (Yale University)
3:15 pm - 3:30 pmElizabeth Kass (Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center)
"Effect of Tissue-Specific and Genetic Changes on Homology-Directed Repair in the Mouse Mammary Gland"
3:30 pm - 3:40 pmDiscussion
3:40 pm - 3:55 pmLenha Mobuchon (Institut National de la Recher)
"Effect of a 48h Food Deprivation on the Expression of the Lactating Goat Mammary miRNome Obtained by Deep Sequencing"
3:55 pm - 4:00 pmDiscussion
4:00 pm - 5:30 pmPoster Session I
5:30 pm - 7:30 pmBreast Cancer Growth and Progression
Discussion Leader: Ania Wronski (Tufts University)
5:30 pm - 5:50 pmMicka Bertucci (Monash University)
"Investigating the Role of Myotubularin Related Protein 4 (MTMR4) in Breast Cancer"
5:50 pm - 6:00 pmDiscussion
6:00 pm - 6:20 pmKassondra Meyer (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
"REST Loss Induces a Growth Advantage in Breast Tumor Cells Through Upregulation of the Insulin Receptor Substrate 1"
6:20 pm - 6:30 pmDiscussion
6:30 pm - 6:50 pmSarah Hein (Baylor College of Medicine)
"Parity Reprograms the Mammary Epithelium to Lower the Apoptotic Anticancer Barrier to Oncogenic Mutations"
6:50 pm - 7:00 pmDiscussion
7:00 pm - 7:20 pmDavid Gallego-Ortega (Garvan Institute)
"Elf5-Forced Lactation Induces Lung Metastasis in the MMTV-PyMT Mouse Mammary Model"
7:20 pm - 7:30 pmDiscussion
8:00 pmDinner
SUNDAY
7:30 am - 8:30 amBreakfast
9:00 am - 11:00 amBreast Cancer Stem Cells and Metastasis
Discussion Leader: Milan Obradovic (Friedrich Miescher Institute for Cancer Research)
9:00 am - 9:20 amCaitlin Rugani (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
"A Lumen-Based In Vitro Model to Study Individual Cancer Cell Behavior in Normal Mammary Ducts"
9:20 am - 9:30 amDiscussion
9:30 am - 9:50 amSarah Boyle (University of Adelaide)
"The Important Role of Chemokine Receptor CCR7 in Regulation of Breast Cancer Stem Cells"
9:50 am - 10:00 amDiscussion
10:00 am - 10:20 amDevon Lawson (University of California, San Francisco)
"Single-Cell Analysis Reveals a Distinct Stem Cell Program in Early Human Metastatic Breast Cancer Cells"
10:20 am - 10:30 amDiscussion
10:30 am - 10:50 amBruno Simoes (Institute of Cancer Science, Manchester)
"Endocrine Therapy-Induced Cancer Stem Cell Activity in Patient-Derived Breast Samples is Dependent upon Notch Signaling"
10:50 am - 11:00 amDiscussion
11:00 am - 12:30 pmPoster Session II
Coffee will be served in the poster area from 11:00 am - 11:30 am
12:30 pmLunch
1:30 pm - 2:30 pmFunding Cutting-Edge Research
Discussion Leader: Ana Luisa Correia (Friedrich Miescher Institute for Cancer Research)
1:30 pm - 2:20 pmVictoria Seewaldt (Duke University)
"Dramatic Grant Writing Revisited: A.K.A. How to Write a Compelling Aims Page (and How Not to Annoy the Reviewers with Over-the-Top Purple Prose)"
2:20 pm - 2:30 pmDiscussion
2:30 pm - 3:00 pmEvaluation Period
Fill in GRS Evaluation Forms
3:00 pmSeminar Concludes

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