Scientific Programme

Day 1: Cancer and Immunology

Thursday, 28 September 2023

8:15 - 8:50 am

Registration

8:50 - 9:00 am Opening Remarks by Reshma Taneja, Head of Department of Physiology, and Veronique Angeli, Director of Immunology Translational Research Programme
SESSION 1: Cancer Immunology
9:00 - 9:45 am

Michael Dustin

Engaging the immunological synapse to combat infection and cancer

University of Oxford, United Kingdom

9:45 - 10:15 am

Shawn Chen

Cancer theranostics

National University of Singapore

10:15 - 10:45 am

Tea Break

10:45 - 11:15 am

Stephan Gasser

Off-the-shelf Redirection of T Cells to Tumors

Roche, Switzerland

11:15 - 11:45 am

Jinhua Lu

The winding roads to cancer vaccines, e.g. NY-ESO-1

National University of Singapore

11:45 - 11:55 am

Jyothsna Vasudevan

An in vitro human multicellular vascularized solid liver tumor model as a pre-clinical tool for assessing targeted drug delivery and adoptive cell therapy

National University of Singapore

11:55 - 12:05 pm

Emily Nickles

Characterization of anti-CD137L antibodies and their potential therapeutic application for treatment of autoimmune diseases

National University of Singapore

12:05 - 12:15 pm

Jiajun Tan

Whole tissue 3D imaging for the exploration of biological architectures

Miltenyi Biotec Asia Pacific sponsor short talk

12:15 - 1:30 pm

Lunch

SESSION 2: Immunophysiology of Disease
1:30 - 2:00 pm

Enfu Hui

T cell costimulation in cis

University of California, San Diego

2:00 - 2:30 pm

Thai Tran

Deciphering the "Jekyll and Hyde" effects of corticosteroids in the treatment of influenza viral infections

National University of Singapore

2:30 - 3:00 pm

Gloryn Chia

Exploring alternative neoantigens for development of cancer vaccines

National University of Singapore

3:00 - 3:10 pm

Yajing Liang

DMTF1 promotes neural stem cell proliferation by regulating cell cycle gene expression via H2AZ

National University of Singapore

3:10 - 3:40 am

Tea Break

3:40 - 4:10 pm

Lina Lim

Overcoming chronic stress-induced breast tumor development, growth and metastasis: an immune mediated mechanism?

National University of Singapore

4:10 - 4:40 pm

Haiyan Liu

IL-37 dampens immune suppressive functions of MDSCs via metabolic reprogramming in the tumor microenvironment

National University of Singapore

4:40 - 5:10 pm

Shruti Bhatt

Modeling and targeting therapy resistance in myeloid leukemia

National University of Singapore

5:10 - 5:25 pm

You Heng Chuah

CAMK2D serves as a molecular scaffold for RNF8-MAD2 complex to induce mitotic checkpoint in glioma

National University of Singapore

6:00 - 9:30 pm

Dinner (by invitation only)

 

End of Day One

Day 2: New Technology

Thursday, 29 September 2023

8:30 - 9:00 am

Registration

SESSION 3: New Technology (Delivery Technology)
9:00 - 9:45 am

Richard Harbottle

DNA Vectors an alternative platform for genetic engineering

German Cancer Research Center, Germany

9:45 - 10:15 am

Yi Yan Yang

Synthetic Macromolecules and Assemblies Overcoming Drug Resistance in Cancer

Bioprocessing Technology Institute, Singapore

10:15 - 10:45 am

Tea Break

10:45 - 11:15 am

Giorgia Pastorin

Recent advances in nanomedicine for cancer treatment: Synthesis or Biomimicry?

National University of Singapore, Singapore

11:15 - 11:45 am

Yongliang Zhang

DUSP10 therapy for colorectal cancer treatment

National University of Singapore

11:45 - 11:55 am

Previtha Dawn

LCK knockout CAR‐T cells as a novel allogeneic platform

National University of Singapore

11:55 - 12:05 pm

Mugdha Vijay Patwardhan

GSTT2 and the response to BCG Immunotherapy

National University of Singapore

12:05 - 12:15 pm

Amrita Roy

Spatially mapping transcriptomic gene expression profiles using gold standard RNAscope in situ hybridization technology

Singlabs sponsor short talk

12:15 - 12:20 pm

Closing Remarks by Organising Committee Chairmen, Lucky draw

12:20 - 1:20 pm

Lunch

SESSION 4: Digital Technology Workshop
1:20 - 1:50 pm

Chengwei Zhong

Interpretable spatial dimensional reduction of spatial transcriptomics with STAMP

Singapore Immunology Network, Singapore

1:50 - 2:20 pm

Sethi Raman

ezSingleCell: An integrated one-stop single-cell and spatial omics analysis platform for bench scientists

Singapore Immunology Network, Singapore

2:30 - 4:30 pm

Jianzhou Cui

Hands-on teaching session on Single Cell Analysis

National University of Singapore

 

End of Day Two


Venue

Centre for Life Sciences

National University of Singapore
Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine
28, Medical Drive
Singapore 117456

 CC24  Kent Ridge MRT station is the nearest MRT station to the venue.

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ORGANISING COMMITTEE

 

Chairman:

A/Prof Herbert Schwarz

 

Dr Andrew Tan

Committee Members:

Cheng Man Si

Chong Pey Rou

Nurul Suhana Binte Ali Ahamed

Koh Ting Wei Kelvin

Dr Sonja Chua

 

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Scientific Manager