Development & Cancer - 16th edition

The course is dedicated to the most current knowledge linking developmental biology with the cellular and molecular study of cancers. Neural crest and melanomas, from their initiation to their migration (metastasis) as well as pediatric cancer from embryonic origins such as medulloblastomas and neuroblastomas are taken as examples. 

The course benefits from a multidisciplinary approach at multiple scales (embryology on various models, biophysics, cell biology, transcriptomics, imaging ...). It also breaches therapeutic approaches and focuses on 3R with the invitation of researchers developing organoids and alternative animal models.

The course includes round tables on careers in academia or industry, on scientific article publication as well as on ethics in animal experimentation. Posters sessions for doctoral students are also organized and prizes for the best posters will be awarded by the attendees.

Topics:

• Pigment cell development: signals, differentiation and migration
• Cell migrations in vivo, in embryos and cancer
• Cutaneous melanomas
• Medulloblastoma biology
• Neuroblastoma biology
• High throughput technologies and imaging for tumor analysis
• Melanoma and therapies.

SPEAKERS

Laura BROUTIER - FR
Céline DELLOYE-BOURGEOIS - FR
Silvia FRE - FR
Fabrice LAVIAL - FR
Carmit LEVY – IL
Virginie MARCEL - FR
Silvia MARINO - UK
Cédric MAURANGE - FR
Celio POUPONNOT - FR
Olivier SAULNIER - FR
Eric THEVENEAU - FR
Piotr TOPILKO - FR
Margareta WILHELM - SE

OBJECTIVE

To discuss the most relevant questions in the field of Development and Cancer. To highlight the multiple complementary approaches available to study the complex processes involved in development and cancer.  To discuss melanocyte and melanoma biology, as well as pediatric cancers such as medulloblastoma and neuroblastoma. For master and doctoral students as well as for researchers and clinicians.