T-Cell Acute Lymphoblatic Leukemia (T-ALL) meets normal T-Cell Development

7-9 May 2010, Hotel Pullman Mandelieu (La Napoule), France.

Chairs: Jules P. Meijerink (Rotterdam, NL), Jan Cools (Leuven, Belgium), Adolfo A. Ferrando (New York, USA), Jean Soulier (Paris, France).

 

Program

Friday 7 May

14:00 - 14:10

 

Welcome to the participants

14:10 - 15:30

 

Introduction key note conferences

14:10 - 14:50

 

Harald von Boehmer (Boston, USA): Normal T-cell development

14:50 - 15:30

 

Tom Look (Boston, USA): Acute T-cell lymphoblastic leukemia

15:30 - 16:00

 

Coffee break

16:00 - 18:30

 

Session 1: Normal and leukemic lymphoid development in the thymus (1)

16:00 - 16:30

 

Maria-Luisa Toribio (Madrid, Spain)

16:30 - 17:00

 

Iannis Aifantis (New York, USA)

17:00 - 17:30

 

Franck J. Staal (Leiden, NL)

17:30 - 18:00

 

Tom Taghon (Gent, Belgium)

18:00 - 18:15

 

Selected short communication

18:15 - 18:30

 

Selected short communication

18:30 - 19:30

 

Poster viewing

20:00

 

Dinner

Saturday 8 May

08:30 - 10:30

 

Session 2: Signaling pathways in normal and leukemic T cells

08:30 - 09:00

 

Warren Pear (Philadelphia, PA, USA)

09:00 - 09:30

 

Jan Cools (Leuven, Belgium)

09:30 - 10:00

 

Jacques Ghysdael (Orsay, France)

10:00 - 10:15

 

Selected short communication

10:15 - 10:30

 

Selected short communication

10:30 - 11:00

 

Coffee break

11:00-13:00

 

Session 3: Genetics, epigenomics, and expression analysis in T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia

11:00 - 11:30

 

Jules P. Meijerink (Rotterdam, NL)

11:30 - 12:00

 

Jean Soulier (Paris, France)

12:00 - 12:30

 

Pieter Van Vlierberghe (Gent, Belgium)

12:30 - 12:45

 

Selected short communication

12:45 - 13:00

 

Selected short communication

13:00

 

Lunch

14:30 - 16:30

 

Session 4: Normal and leukemic lymphoid development in the thymus (2)

14:30 - 15:00

 

Freddy Radtke (Lausanne, Switzerland)

15:00 - 15:30

 

Juan Carlos Zuniga-Pfliicker (Toronto, Canada)

15:30 - 16:00

 

Francoise Pflumio (Fontenay-aux-Roses, France)

16:00 - 16:15

 

Selected short communication

16:15 - 16:30

 

Selected short communication

16:30 - 17:00

 

Coffee break

17:00 - 19:00

 

Poster session

20:00

 

Gala Dinner

Sunday 9 May

08:30 - 12:00

 

Session 5: T-ALL therapy; molecular targets, prognostic markers

08:30 - 09:00

 

Adolfo A. Ferrando (New York, NJ, USA)

09:00 - 09:30

 

Joao T. Barata (Lisbon, Portugal)

09:30 - 10:00

 

Bertrand Nadel (Marseille-Luminy, France)

10:00 - 10:15

 

Selected short communication

10:15 - 10:30

 

Selected short communication

10:30 - 11:00

 

Coffee break

11:00 - 11:30

 

John Aster (Boston, MA, USA)

11:30 - 12:00

 

Elizabeth A. Macintyre (Paris, France)

12:00 - 12:15

 

Selected short communication

12:15 - 12:30

 

Selected short communication

12:30 - 13:00

 

Conference closure: new directions, towards a T-ALL Network?

13:00

 

Lunch

Last updated on Monday 23 November 2009.