Draft program
Here you can find details of the draft program for CAMCON26.
Day 1, Tuesday 30 June
17:00 - 18:30 - REGISTRATION, WELCOME RECEPTION AND POSTER SET-UP
18:30 - 18:45 - Welcome and introduction (Chair: Judy Coulson)
18:45 - 19:15 - KEYNOTE 1: Domenico Ribatti, University of Bari, Italy - “An historical overview of the use of the CAM assay in the study of tumor angiogenesis”
19:15 - 19:45 - KEYNOTE 2: Megan Davey, University of Edinburgh, UK - “Genetically modified eggs and opportunities in CAM research”
Day 2, Wednesday 1 July
09:00 - 09:25 - DELEGATE ARRIVAL / POSTER SET-UP
09:25 - 09:30 - Welcome, housekeeping, and announcements
Session one: Non-oncological models (Chair: Pedro Gomes, Co-chair: Ayca Uvez)
09:30 - 09:55 - Plenary: Nassim Ghaffari Tabrizi-Wizsy, University of Graz, Austria - “From Trophoblast Invasion to Intervillous Perfusion: A Refined Ex Ovo CAM Model of Early Human Placentation”
09:55 - 10:10 - Invited short talk: Pedro Gomes, University of Porto, Portugal - “Ex vivo embryonic chick femur culture as a platform to study osteogenesis”
10:10 - 10:20 - Selected short talk: Zeudi Petrone, University of Naples, Italy - “Diabetic Corneal Damage in the Chick Embryo model: A Platform for Ocular Safety and Therapeutic Screening”
10:20 - 10:30 - Selected short talk: Judith Rees, Deutsches Herzzentrum der Charité, Germany - “Using the incubated Chicken Egg as a novel alternative tool in basic cardiovascular electrophysiological research”
10:30 - 11:00 - COFFEE BREAK AND POSTER VIEWING
Session two: Regenerative medicine and biomaterials (Chair: Veronika Huntošová, Co-chair: Johanna Buschmann)
11:00 - 11:25 - Plenary: Eva Petrovova, University of Veterinary Medicine and Pharmacy in Kosice, Slovakia - “Chorioallantoic Membrane – Alternative Model for Biomaterial Testing”
11:25 - 11:40 - Invited short talk: Veronika Huntošová, University in Košice, Slovakia - “Multimodal MOF Based Nanoplatform for Localised Photodynamic and Combination Therapy Evaluated in the Quail CAM Model”
11:40 - 11:50 - Selected short talk: Rita Araujo, University of Porto, Portugal - “Development of a Controlled Burn Injury Model on the Chicken Chorioallantoic Membrane (CAM)”
11:50 - 12:00 - Selected short talk: Jiao Jin, University College London, UK - “Evaluating the Chick Chorioallantoic Membrane (CAM) as a Biomimetic and Multifunctional Platform for the Performance Assessment of Orodispersible Films (ODFs)”
Poster flask talks 1 (Chair: Niall Kenneth)
12:00 - 12:30 - 10x two minutes; selected from abstracts
12:30 - 13:30 - LUNCH AND POSTER VIEWING
Workshop 1: The 3RS and sustainability in CAM research (Chair: Sarah Barnett)
13:30 - 13:40 - Jenna Lowe, University of Liverpool, UK - LEAF: Laboratory Efficiency Assessment Framework
13:40 - 13:50 - Sustainability in CAM research (TBC)
13:50 - 14:00 - Simon Allison - 3Rs in CAM research
14:00 - 14:20 - Group discussions
Workshop 2: Enabling uptake of CAM research (Chair: Marta Teixeira Pinto)
14:20 - 14:30 - Charlotte Colle, Capstone DC, UK - “New Alternative Methods (NAMs) in Pharma”
14:30 - 14:40 - Marta Teixeira Pinto, i3S, Porto, Portugal - "Evaluating the CAM model as an alternative to murine models in biomedical research: a systematic review of comparative studies”
14:40 - 15:00 - Group discussions
Poster flask talks 2 (Chair: Ann Hopkins)
15:00 - 15:30 - 10x two minutes; selected from abstracts
15:30 - 17:00 - POSTER DISCUSSION SESSION WITH DRINKS RECEPTION
Conference social event
18:00 - 21:00 - Optional ticketed event
Day 3, Thursday 2 July
09:00 - 09:25 - DELEGATE ARRIVAL AND POSTER VIEWING
09:25 - 09:30 - Housekeeping and announcements
Session three: Hallmarks of cancer (Chair: Regine Schneider-Stock, Co-chair: Cathy Richards)
09:30 - 09:55 - Plenary: Ruby Huang, National Taiwan University, Taiwan - “Functional assessment of epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) in the chick chorioallantoic membrane (CAM) model”
09:55 - 10:10 - Invited ECR talk: Kerstin Hubner, University Erlangen, Germany - "Spatial whole-transcriptomics of CAM ovografts reveals downregulation of MYC targets and cell cycle arrest at the tumor invasion front”
10:10 - 10:20 - Selected short talk: Raphaela Ranjan, University of Munich, Germany - “Integrated Cell Line, Organoid, and CAM Models Reveal Tumor-Intrinsic Control of Stromal Remodeling and Functional Heterogeneity in PDAC”
10:20 - 10:30 - Selected short talk: Thomas Bauer, Medical University of Graz, Austria - “Microplastics Shape Colorectal Cancer Growth, Morphology and Angiogenesis in a CAM Xenograft Model”
10:30 - 11:00 - COFFEE BREAK AND POSTER VIEWING
Session four: Complex cancer models (Chair: Ruby Huang, Co-chair: Tobias Faehling)
11:00 - 11:25 - Plenary: Andrew Sikora, University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Centre, USA - “Leveraging CAM-based tumor models for preclinical evaluation of cellular immunotherapies”
11:25 - 11:40 - Invited short talk: Joe Sacco, University of Liverpool, UK - “Developing co-culture CAM models to interrogate cell interactions in the metastatic niche and improve assessment of novel therapeutics in uveal melanoma”
11:40 - 11:50 - Selected short talk: Shari Aerts, Ghent University, Belgium - “Species-specific mitochondrial DNA digital PCR improves the quantification of human and canine metastatic burden in CAM xenograft models”
11:50 - 12:00 - Selected short talk: Georg Fleugen, Heinrich-Heine-University and UniversityHospital Duesseldorf, Germany - “Detection and Isolation of Spontaneous Human Circulating Gastrointestinal Tumor Cells in the In Vivo CAM Model”
12:00 - 13:00 - LUNCH AND POSTER VIEWING
Session five: Pre-clinical applications (Chair: Yan Wang, Co-chair: Albert Odunlade)
13:00 - 13:25 - Plenary: Yan Wang, Inovotion, France - “Chicken CAM assay: An alternative, 3Rs-compliant, in vivo model for the development of immunotherapy for cancer”
13:25 - 13:40 - Invited short talk: Miltiadis Fiorentzis, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Germany - “An Optimized Multimodal Uveal Melanoma CAM Platform for Longitudinal Imaging and Preclinical Therapy Evaluation”
13:40 - 13:50 - Selected short talk: Izabela Cymer, RCSI, Ireland - “Detection and Isolation of Spontaneous Human Circulating Gastrointestinal Tumor Cells in the In Vivo CAM Model”
13:50 - 14:00 - Selected short talk: Mirja Gerbach, University Cancer Centre Hamburg, Germany - “Establishing the CAM model for radiobiological investigations”
Session six: Biomolecular imaging (Chair: Rainer Schindl, Co-chair: Victor Martins)
14:00 - 14:25 - Plenary: Tim Whitney, King’s College London, UK - “PET imaging of tumour response to therapy using the CAM”
14:25 - 14:40 - Invited ECR talk: Sandra Krause, Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany - “Role of positron emission tomography (PET), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and ex vivo autoradiography for translational orthotopic brain tumour imaging”
14:40 - 14:50 - Selected short talk: Karl McCullagh, University of Galway, Ireland - “Novel method to measure the impact of VEGF on haemodynamics in the microcirculation of the CAM using Hoechst-labelled erythrocytes and intravital microscopy”
14:50 - 15:00 - Selected short talk: Jan Schulze, University of Liverpool, UK - “BAP1-stratified arginine deprivation therapy in epithelioid pleural mesothelioma: preclinical PET/CT validation using an in ovo PDX Model”
15:00 - 15:30 - COFFEE BREAK
Workshop 3: Barriers to uptake of the CAM model (Coordinators: Judy Coulson and Sarah Barnett)
15:30 - 16:30 - Interactive workshop
16:30 - 16:55 - SUMMARY, PRIZES, AND CONFERENCE CLOSE