
AGENDA
Tuesday, October 18th
7:00am - 5:00pm
Registration Open
Strathblane Foyer
8:00am-10:06am
PLENARY SESSION 1 - Therapy Response and Resistance - Session Chair - Corine Bertolotto
Pentland Suite
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8:00am - 8:20am
Towards rational combination therapies: Understanding tumor evolution during therapy response and resistance
Presented by: Anna Obenauf
8:20am - 8:35am
Loss of LYN in targeted-therapy resistant melanoma cells favors metastatic properties.
Presented by: Céline Pisibon
8:35am - 8:50am
Targeting up-regulated cIAP2 in SOX10-deficient drug tolerant melanoma
Presented by: Claudia Capparelli
8:50am - 9:05am
CD4+ T cell-induced inflammatory killing controls immune evasive tumors
Presented by: Anthony Buzzai
9:05am - 9:20am
Clinical Activity of Combined Telomerase Vaccination and Pembrolizumab in Unresectable Melanoma
Presented by: Yousef Zakharia
9:20am - 9:35am
The CD58:CD2 axis: a critical regulator of cancer immunity
Presented by: Patricia Ho
9:35am - 10:00am
Combating immunotherapy resistance – a functional genomics approach
Presented by: Daniel Peeper
10:00am - 10:06am
Flash Talks:
Implications of AMBRA1 in phenotype plasticity and response to MAPKi
Presented by: Luca Di Leo
Tumor Biomarker Analysis From COLUMBUS Part 1: Encorafenib + Binimetinib for BRAF V600E/K-Mutant Advanced or Metastatic Melanoma
Presented by: Nuzhat Pathan
10:05am - 10:30am
Refreshment Break
Cromdale Hall & Strathblane Hall
10:30am - 12:35pm
CONCURRENT SESSION 2A - Melanocyte and Melanoma Cell Biology - Session Chair - Vicky Sanz-Moreno
Pentland Suite
10:30am - 10:50am
What drives oncogenic competence?
Presented by: Richard White
10:50am - 11:05am
Acetylation reprograms MITF target selectivity
Presented by: Pakavarin Louphrasitthiphol
11:05am - 11:20am
Novel mesenchymal-like melanoblasts yield insights into aggressive mesenchymal-like melanomas
Presented by: Kerrie Marie
11:20am - 11:35am
Gain of chromosome 1q perturbs a competitive endogenous RNA network to promote melanoma metastasis
Presented by: Florian Karreth
11:35am - 11:50am
HDAC8-mediated inhibition of EP300 drives a neural crest-like transcriptional state that increases melanoma brain metastasis
Presented by: Keiran Smalley
11:50am - 12:05pm
TAZ: a novel driver of Uveal Melanoma
Presented by: Swanny Lamboy Rodriguez
12:05pm - 12:25pm
Epigenetic Regulation of Endogenous Retroelement Expression Modulates Anti-Melanoma Immune Responses
Presented by Marcus Bosenberg
12:25pm - 12:35pm
Flash Talks:
Androgen- and fucosylation-regulated invasiveness: a key molecular mechanism underpinning disparate sex- associated invasiveness and metastasis in melanoma
Presented by: Eric Lau
Cytosolic EZH2-IMPDH2 complex regulates melanoma progression via GTP
Presented by: Gamze Kuser Abali
10:30am - 12:25pm
CONCURRENT SESSION 2B - Prevention and Early Detection and Biomarkers - Session Chair - Paul Lorigan
Lomond Suite
10:30am - 10:50am
Tailoring skin check recommendations according to personal risk: acceptability, feasibility and fidelity
Presented by: Anne Cust
10:50am - 11:05pm
Primary melanoma prevention: effectiveness of sunscreen application counseling
Presented by: Maria Wei
11:05pm - 11:20pm
ctDNA can predict overall survival in patients with advanced cutaneous melanoma
Presented by: Vinicius Vazquez
11:20pm - 11:35pm
Trial design and assay validation for the phase II/III DETECTION trial: Circulating tumor DNA guidEd
Therapy for stage IIB/C mElanoma after surgiCal resection
Presented by: Rebecca Lee
11:35am - 12:00pm
Slip versus Slop: A Head-to-Head Comparison of UV-Protective Clothing to Sunscreen
Presented by: Liz Berry
12:00pm - 12:25pm
Q&A
12:30pm - 2:00pm
Lunch - Exhibit and Poster Viewing
Cromdale Hall & Strathblane Hall
2:00pm - 4:03pm
CONCURRENT SESSION 3A - Melanoma Immune Modulators and Response - Session Chair - Goran Jonsson
Pentland Suite
2:00pm - 2:20pm
RNF5 and gut microbiome in anti-tumor and auto-immunity
Presented by: Ze'ev Ronai
2:20pm - 2:35pm
Distinct microbial communities play a role in melanoma brain metastasis
Presented by: Golnaz Morad
2:35pm - 2:50pm
The mucosal melanoma tumor microbiome is distinct from cutaneous with unfavorable
proportions of immune- associated species
Presented by: Pritika Parmar
2:50pm - 3:05pm
BRAFi+MEKi-mediated pyroptosis alters immune cell trafficking between the tumor and lymph node
Presented by: Nicole A.Wilski
3:05pm - 3:25pm
Multi-omic analysis of immune-related adverse events (irAEs) in melanoma patients (pts) treated with anti-PD1-based immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs)
Presented by: Florentia Dimitriou
3:25pm - 3:40pm
Melanosome as melanoma immune modulators
Presented by: Carmit Levy
3:40pm - 4:00pm
A revised classification of melanoma TILs informs patient outcomes and therapeutic strategies
Presented by: Niroshana Anandasabapathy
4:00pm - 4:03pm
Flash Talks
ZEB1 transcription factor promotes immune escape in melanoma
Presented by: Julie Caramel
2:00pm - 3:40pm
CONCURRENT SESSION 3B - Innovative Technologies - Session Chair - David Adams
Lomond Suite
2:00pm - 2:20pm
Personalised Immunotherapy Program (PIP): a multi-omic tool to predict the response of melanoma patients to anti-PD1-based immune checkpoint inhibitors.
Presented by: James Wilmott
2:20pm - 2:35pm
Defining tumor reactive T cells in uveal melanoma metastases
Presented by: Jonas A. Nilsson
2:35pm - 2:50pm
Spatially mapping the melanoma immune landscape of primary, regional, and brain metastases using Imaging Mass Cytometry
Presented by: Ian Watson
2:50pm - 3:05pm
Dissection of Melanoma-Microenvironment Interactions during Tumor Progression
Presented by: Giulia Lovati
3:05pm - 3:20pm
Short Talks
High-Throughput Screening Identifies Novel ROS-Inducing Small Molecules as a Therapy for Treatment- Resistant Melanoma
Presented by: Corinne I. Stoffel
LW-02 Column Immunopheresis® to Remove Soluble TNF Receptors: A Novel Immunotherapeutic Strategy for Melanoma and Other Solid Tumors
Presented by: Victoria Manax
Molecular analysis of tumor dormancy in a 3D printed melanoma model
Presented by: Sonja K. Schmidt
3:20pm - 3:40pm
Deep phenotyping and genetic susceptibility to melanoma
Presented by: Susana Puig
4:00pm - 4:15pm
Refreshment Break
Cromdale Hall & Strathblane Hall
4:15pm - 5:30pm
SMR Global Science Perspective
4:15pm - 4:25pm
Introduction and Vision
Presented by Daniela Robles-Espinoza
4:25pm - 4:40pm
Global Collaboration in Melanoma Modeling: A Case Study
Presented by: Chi-Ping Day
4:40pm - 4:55pm
Presented by: Gretchen Alicea
4:55pm - 5:10pm
Modeling in vitro melanoma heterogeneity: redox, resistance and pigmentation profiles
Presented by: Silvya Maria-Engler
5:10pm - 5:20pm
Presented by: Vito Rebecca
5:20pm - 5:30pm
Discussion
Chaired by: Daniela Robles-Espinoza, Vito Rebecca
5:30pm - 7:00pm
Poster Reception
Cromdale Hall
7:00pm - 11:00pm
Trainee Night Out - BrewDog Bar