Biology of Cancer: Microenvironment & Metastasis
October 12 - 15, 2021 Virtual
Abstract Deadline: July 23, 2021
Registrations submitted after 5:00 p.m. ET on October 7, 2021 are subject to late fees
Organizers:
Scott Lowe, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
M Celeste Simon, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine
Valerie Weaver, University of California, San Francisco
We are pleased to announce the sixth Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory meeting on the Biology of Cancer: Microenvironment & Metastasis. Abstracts should contain new and unpublished material. Selection of material for oral and poster presentation will be made by the organizers and individual session chairs. The meeting will be held virtually, beginning late morning ET on Tuesday, October 12, and ending late afternoon ET on Friday, October 15, 2021.
| Day | Time (ET) | Session # | Session Name |
| Tuesday |
9:30 am - 12:30 pm |
1 |
Crosstalk Between the Tumor and Microenvironment (TME) |
| Tuesday |
12:30 pm - 1:15 pm |
|
Keynote Speaker: Lisa Cousssens |
| Tuesday |
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm |
|
Poster Session* |
| Tuesday |
2:30 pm - 5:30 pm |
2 |
Immune Surveillance |
| Wednesday |
9:30 am - 12:30 pm |
3 |
Cancer Heterogeneity and Plasticity |
| Wednesday |
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm |
4 |
Special Single Cell Session |
| Wednesday |
1:45 pm - 2:45 pm |
|
Poster Session* |
| Wednesday |
2:45 pm - 5:45 pm |
5 |
Metastatic Niche |
| Thursday |
9:30 am - 12:30 pm |
6 |
Inflammation |
| Thursday |
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm |
|
Poster Session* |
| Thursday |
2:00 pm - 2:45 pm |
|
Keynote Speaker: William Kaelin |
| Thursday |
2:45 pm - 5:45 m |
7 |
Systemic Factors |
| Friday |
9:30 am - 12:30 pm |
8 |
Stromal Control of Tumorigenesis |
| Friday |
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm |
|
Poster Session* |
| Friday |
2:30 pm - 5:30 pm |
9 |
The Stressful Tumor Microenvironment |
*Virtual Poster Session will be available for viewing throughout the meeting
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Virtual Icebreaker on Tuesday at 6:00 pm ET
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Discussion Zone follows each session as an open forum and runs for 30 minutes
On-demand recordings of the daily Zoom sessions will be made available for 48 hours starting the following day, followed by longer-term access to the Leading Strand archive the week after the meeting.
Daily Schedule
| City | "Morning" Oral Session | Poster Session | "Afternoon" Oral Session |
| Los Angeles |
6:30 am - 9:30 am |
10:00 am - 11:00 am |
11:30 am - 2:30 pm |
| New York |
9:30 am - 12:30 pm |
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm |
2:30 pm - 5:30 pm |
| London |
2:30 pm - 5:30 pm |
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm |
7:30 pm - 10:30 pm |
| Berlin |
3:30 pm - 6:30 pm |
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm |
8:30 pm - 11:30 pm |
| Tokyo |
10:30 pm - 1:30 am |
2:00 am - 3:00 am |
3:30 am - 6:30 am |
Keynote Speakers:
Lisa Coussens, Oregon Health & Science University
William Kaelin, HHMI/Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Discussion Leaders:
Cory Abate-Shen, Columbia University Medical Center
Eduard Batlle, IRB, Barcelona, Spain
Jeremy Borniger, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Heather Christofk, University of California, Los Angeles
Christina Curtis, Stanford University
Karin de Visser, The Netherlands Cancer Institute, Netherlands
Thomas Gajewski, University of Chicago Medical School
Andrei Goga, University of California, San Francisco
Nicholas Huntington, Monash University, Australia
Alec Kimmelman, NYU School of Medicine
Michelle Monje-Deisseroth, Stanford University
Jeffrey Myers, MD Anderson Cancer Center
Dana Pe'er, Memorial Sloan Kettering Institute
Rushika Perera, University of California, San Francisco
Jonathan Powell, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Jeffrey Rathmell, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Aviv Regev, Genentech
Pepper Schedin, Oregon Health and Science Center
Bruce Spiegelman, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
David Tuveson, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Matthew Vander Heiden, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Karen Vousden, Francis Crick Institute, UK
Timothy Wang, Columbia University
Kathryn Wellen, University of Pennsylvania
Please bring this notice to the attention of any of your colleagues who may be interested in participating in the meeting.
All abstracts must be submitted by the abstract deadline. Late registrations may be accepted after the abstract deadline if the meeting is not oversubscribed. In the event of over-subscription, every effort will be made to ensure that all groups who wish to participate will be represented. The status (talk/poster) of abstracts will be posted on our web site as soon as decisions have been made by the organizers.
We are eager to have as many young people as possible attend since they are likely to benefit most from this meeting. We have applied for funds from government and industry to partially support graduate students and postdocs. Please apply in writing via email to Val Pakaluk and state your financial needs; preference will be given to those who submit abstracts.
Social Media:
The designated hashtag for this meeting is #cshlcancer. Note that you must obtain permission from an individual presenter before live-tweeting or discussing his/her talk, poster, or research results on social media. Click the Policies tab above to see our full Confidentiality & Reporting Policy.
Partial support provided by: National Cancer Institute
Pricing:
Late Pricing: (registrations submitted after 5:00 p.m. ET on October 7, 2021)
Late Virtual Academic Package: $395
Late Virtual Graduate Student Package: $280
Late Virtual Corporate Package: $535