SYMPOSIUM

Cancer Genomics

9-10th November 2013 Hotel Sheraton, Montevideo

TIME SPEAKER PRESENTATION TITLE

SATURDAY 9th

8:30-9:00 Alfonso Cayota (FM-UDLEAR, IP-Mvdeo) Small RNAs as a new source of biomarkers in cancer 9:00-9:30 Ma. Ana Duhagon (FC/FM-UDELAR) MicroRNAs regulated during prostate cancer stem cell differentiation 9:30-10:00 Edna Kimura (USP, SP, Brasil) Oncogene and microRNA in thyroid cancer 10:00-10:30 Murilllo Vieira (USP, SP, Brasil) Understanding the role of microRNAs in thyroid cancer

Moderator: Beatriz Garat

10:30-11:00 COFFEE

11:00-11:30 Pablo Oppezzo (FM-UDLEAR, IP-Mvdeo) Genomic profiling of a proliferative tumor subpopulation in Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia

11:30-12:00 Jose Sotelo-Silveira (IIBCE, FC-UDELAR) Analysis of the effect of tumor suppressor PDCD4 in translation by ribosome footprinting (Ribo-seq)

12:00- 12:30 Adrián Turjanski (FC-UBA, BsAs, Argentina) Structure and dynamics to function relationships in MAP Kinases 12:30- 13:00 Monica Sans (FHCE-UDELAR) Ancestry and its importance in cancer studies

Moderator: Beatriz Garat

13:00- 14:00 LUNCH

14:00-14:15 Sabrina Fischer (FC-UDELAR) Genetic Variability of Humans Endogenous Retrovirus and its possible association with Chronic Lymphoid Leukemia

14:15-14:30 Viviana Ramas (FC-UDELAR, MSP) HPV genotypes in cervical samples of uruguayan women 14:30-14:45 Bernardo Bertoni (FM-UDELAR) Cancer and genetic structure of the uruguayan population 14:45-15:00 Mónica Capetta (FM-UDELAR) Search for epigenetic markers for breast cancer susceptibility 15:00-15:15 Julio Da Luz (FM-UDELAR) Pharmacogenomics in Acute Lymphoid Leukemia: toxicity and effective chemotherapy

15:15-15:30 Faride Uturbey (FM-UDELAR) Therpeutic targets genetically oriented in leukemia Moderator: Maria Ana Duhagon

15:30-16:00 COFFEE

16:15-16:45 Alejandra Larre Borges (HC/FM-UDELAR) Hereditary melanoma in Uruguay 16:45-17:00 Sandra Cataldi (HC/FM-UDELAR, INCA) Genetic studies and counselling of hereditary breast cancer in Uruguay 17:00-17:15 Adriana Della Valle (HCFA) Lynch syndrome in Uruguay 17:15-17:30 Juan Martín Marquéz (GENIA, IH/FM-UDELAR) New technologies for clinical diagnose: NGS for sequencing BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes

17:30-17:45 Gonzalo Manrique (ASESP) Contributions of massive sequencing to the study of Acute Myeloid Leukemia.

17:45-18:00 Nora Artagaveytia (HC/FM-UDELAR) Challenges in the implementation of a National Multidisciplinary Cancer Research Network in Uruguay. The International US-LACRN Breast Cancer Profiling Study as a model

Moderator: Maria Ana Duhagon

SUNDAY10th

8:30-9:00 Katia Ramos Leite (FMUSP, SP, Brasil) MicroRNA profiling of prostate cancer

9:00-9:30 Osvaldo Podhajcer (Instituto Leloir, CONICET, BSAs, Argentina) Low abundance transcriptome studies in advanced human gastrointestinal cancer

9:30-10:00 Julio Ricarte (USP, SP, Brasil) Identification of novel kinase fusion oncogenes in papillary thyroid cancer by paired-end RNA sequencing 10:00-10:30 Pedro Galante (Hosp. Sirio Libanes, SP, Brasil) Somatic retropositions in cancer genomes

Moderator: Jose Sotelo-Silveira

10:30-11:00 COFFEE

11:00-11:30 Heriberto Bruzzoni-Giovanelli (Hosp. Saint-Louis, Paris, France) A pharmacogenetic approach in the Chronic Myeloid Leukemia 11:30-12:00 Pilar Carvallo (FC-PUCC, Santiago, Chile) Genetics and genomics of breast cancer 12:00- 12:30 Gustavo Marin (FCM-UNLP, La Plata, Argentina) Nanoparticles as vectors for treatment alternatives to CLL targets 12:30- 13:00 David Munroe (NCI/NIH, Maryland, USA) The emergence and promise of molecular diagnostics and directed patient care in cancer

13:00-13:15 Closing remarks Moderator: Jose Sotelo-Silveira

13:15- 14:00 LUNCH