Tuesday - Immunology and the Micro-world – Austin Hospital Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Centre Inaugural Research Conference 2017

Opening Remarks: Fergus Kerr and Natasha Stork

• Chimeric antigen receptor modified T cells for B cell malignancies - Stan Riddell
• Intratumoral inflammation modifies the immunopeptidome in melanoma - Jonathan Cebon
• Tumor immunoevasion by conversion of effector NK cells into type 1 innate lymphoid cells - Mark Smyth
• New strategies for enhancing CAR T cell cancer therapy - Phil Darcy
• Atypical chemokine receptor 4 restrains anti-tumour CD8⁺ T cell responses in a breast cancer model - Shaun McColl

• (This presentation will not be recorded) Mechanisms of immune evasion and metastasis in colorectal cancer - Eduard Batlle
• (This presentation will not be recorded) Tumour inherent IFNs: Impact on dormancy, prognosis and therapeutic sensitivity - Belinda Parker
• The biomechanics of the microenvironment and its dysregulation in cancer - Michael Samuel
• Transient tissue ‘priming' via ROCK inhibition uncouples pancreatic cancer progression, sensitivity to chemotherapy, and metastasis: insights from intravital imaging. - Paul Timpson
• (This presentation will not be recorded) Cancer associated fibroblasts in bowel cancer - Dan Worthley
• (This presentation will not be recorded) Tumours and their microenvironment - Therapeutically targeting reciprocal interactions - Matthias Ernst

• Gut microbiome and metabolites and Western lifestyle diseases - Charles Mackay
• Our microbiome and cancer - Paul Johnson
• Discovery and development of therapy for cancer cachexia - Nick Hoogenraad
• Stress remodels the tumour microenvironment:  the impact on cancer progression - Erica Sloan
• The protective role of an innate immune molecule in gastric B cell lymphomagenesis due to chronic Helicobacter infection - Richard Ferrero
• Hdac3 regulates lipid oxidation in the intestinal epithelium - John Mariadason

Closing Remarks: Matthias Ernst

•     - Matthias Ernst