P R O G R A M M E


Wednesday, 1st of July 2009

12:00 - 20.00 (noon - 8.p.m.)
Registration at St. Virgil

18:45 (6.45 p.m.)
Welcome drink and warm reception by the cooperating
partner Alfred Winter (Gouvernment of Land Salzburg)
and Peter Eckl (Department of Cell Biology,
University of Salzburg) - "Everyone is welcome"


Thursday, 2nd of July 2009

09:00 - 12:00 (9.a.m. - noon)
Registration

09:00 - 17:30 (9.a.m. - 5.30 p.m.)
Full Conference Programme

Morning: 9:00 - 12:30

09:00 - 09:15
Erich Hamberger:
Motives to organize this congress

Opening talk
Harald ZUR HAUSEN:
Viruses causing cancer

Tadatsugu TANIGUCUI:
Nucleic Acids, Interferons and Immunity: Implications in Cancer Therapy

11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Breack -Tea Time

Yuri LAZEBNIK
On the consequences of cell promiscuity, or whether viruses can cause
cancer by fusing cells

Afternoon: 14.30 - 17.30

Günther WITZANY
Biocommunication of Cancer Cells from the „Virus first“-Perspective

Guiseppe CARRUBA
Steroid Enzymes and Cancer

16:00 – 16:30
Coffee Breack -Tea Time

Martin LACKMANN
/Eph on – Eph off: /insights into molecular switches that (mis)guide cancer cell positioning Open discussion

Friday, 3rd of July 2009

9:00 - 12:00
Registration

09:00 - 17:30
Full Conference Programme

Morning: 09:00 – 12:00

Leon BIGNOLD
Morphology of tumours and cell-cell communication

James E. TROSKO
Cancer as a Stem Cell Disease, a Disease of differentiation, and a Disease of Homeostasis: The role of Cell–Cell Communication

10:45 - 11:15 Coffee Breack -Tea Time
Erna PAP
Letter in an envelope - microvesicular information transfer. A new way of cell-to-cell communication

Afternoon:
14:00-17:30

Ulrike KÄMMERER
The human placenta as a „well behaving tumour“ and model to study regulation of cell growth, proliferation and invasion


Mariano BIZZARRI
Complexity and Cancer: self-organizing attractors and non-linear dynamics of regulatory networks

15:45 - 16:15 Coffee Breack - Tea Time

Marty SERENO
Cells, Language and Communication Open discussion

18:45 - 21:00 (6.45 p.m. - 9.p.m.)
Invitation to the Congress-dinner by the local organizer committee in St. Virgil "Everyone is welcome"

19.00 - 19:30 (7. p.m. - 7.30 p.m.)
Cultural performance (Bernadette Furch, Alt; Hassan Mamoud, Oud)

Saturday, 4th of July 2009

09:00 - 12:00
Registration

09:00 17:30
Full Conference Programme

Morning: 09:00 – 12:30

Manuela BACCARINI
Targets of the Raf pathway in tumorigenesis

Karin de VISSER
The inflammatory tumor microenvironment: Tumor-protective or Tumor-promoting?

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Breack -Tea Time

Angelika RIEMER
Interactions between the Immune System and Cancer / Immunotherapy Approaches

Veronika SEXL
Tumor surveillance in leukemia

Afternoon: 14:30 – 17:30

Mary Helen BARCELLOS-HOFF
Rethinking Radiation Carcinogenesis

Ana SOTO
The Tissue Organization Field Theory

15:45 - 16:15 Coffee Breack -Tea Time

Erich HAMBERGER
Cancer and Message Transduction. Fragments of a Bio-Communication-Approach for a better Understanding of Carcinogenesis General open discussion/Closing remarks

Sunday, 5th of July 2009

08.00 a.m. - 17.30 p.m. (Subject to Change)

Sunday-Excursion (whole day) to a Pinzgau Tour visiting the Wildkogel Peak (one of the most exiting mountain panoramas of Austria) Leopold Kohr Academy (Neukirchen am Großvenediger) Bramberg Heimat Museum (a folkloristic museum with outstanding examples of alpine mineralogy)