Networking meeting for breast cancer research in Tromsø
A group of researchers and clinicians has taken the initiative to form a local network for breast cancer research in Tromsø. We hereby invite you to join a one-day seminar about on-going breast cancer research in Tromsø!
The purpose of this network is to stimulate local collaboration and facilitate interaction between researchers and clinicians working with breast cancer. The overall goal of the network is to promote breast cancer research of high quality in Tromsø. In this regard, we invite you to join a one-day seminar where local researchers and clinicians present on-going breast cancer research. We will discuss future plans and activities within the network.
The meeting is open for everybody, but particularly relevant for employees, MSc- and «forskerlinje» students at UiT and UNN Tromsø that are doing, or are interested in breast cancer research.
We encourage people to join lunch and a social gathering after the meeting for networking.
| Auditorium 7, MH-øst | Chair: Maria Perander |
| 09:00 | Opening of meeting |
| 09:05 | Welcome from the faculty Johanna U. Ericson, vice-dean research, Faculty of health sciences, UiT. |
| 09:10 | Information about EU Horizon Europe “Mission Cancer” Inge Waller Nilsen, senior advisor, project office, Faculty of health sciences, UiT. |
| 09:25 | Nephronectin as a matrix effector in breast cancer metastasis Synnøve Magnussen, Department of Medical Biology, UiT. |
| 09:45 | Single cell sequencing of breast cancer Erik Knutsen, Department of Medical Biology, UiT. |
| 10:05 | Coffee break |
| Auditorium 7, MH-øst | Chair: Karina Standahl Olsen |
| 10:25 | Establishing an animal model of cardiotoxicity induced by breast-cancer treatment Anne Dragøy Hafstad, Department of Medical Biology, UiT. |
| 10:45 | Functional analysis of genetic variants in the BRCT-domains of BRCA1 Nicola Bassi, Department of medical genetics, UNN. |
| 11:05 | Autophagy and breast cancer / The WD-repeat protein MORG1 connects selective autophagy regulation to breast cancer metastasis Eva Sjøttem/Yakubu Princely Abudu, Department of Medical Biology, UiT. |
| 11:25 | NEAT1 and paraspeckles in breast cancer Maria Perander, Department of Medical Biology, UiT. |
| 11:45 | Lunch (Lysgården, MH-øst) |
| Aud. Cerebellum, MH-vest | Chair: Erik Knutsen |
| 12:45 | Information about the Norwegian national network for breast cancer research Kristine Kleivi Sahlberg, network leader, Vestre Viken |
| 13:10 | Epidemiological perspectives on breast cancer Eiliv Lund, Department of Community Medicine, UiT. |
| 13:30 | Blood gene expression during the cancer trajectory Karina Standahl Olsen, Department of Community Medicine, UiT. |
| 13:50 | Approaching precision medicine in breast cancer Lill-Tove Busund, Department of Medical Biology, UiT. |
| 14:10 | Coffee break |
| Aud. Cerebellum, MH-vest | Chair: Synnøve Mangnussen |
| 14:25 | Stress activated signaling pathways in breast cancer Ole Morten Seternes / Ingvild Mikkola, Department of Pharmacy, UiT. |
| 14:45 | Breast cancer from a surgeon’s perspective Åse Florholmen-Kjær, UNN Tromsø. |
| 15:05 | Breast cancer from a pathologists’ perspective Elin Mortensen, UNN Tromsø / Department of Medical Biology, UiT. |
| 15:25 | Clinical breast cancer studies at UNN Tromsø Egil Støre Blix / Thomas Berg, UNN Tromsø. |
| 15:45 | Discussion and future plans for the network |
| 16:15 | Closure |
| 18:00 | Social gathering at Casa Inferno |