2010 Autumn Meeting
Friday 12th November 2010
The Royal Society, Carlton House Terrace, London
Lessons from Cancer for Biology and Genetics
Scientific organisers:
- Veronica van Heyningen (MRC Human Genetics Unit, Edinburgh)
- Terry Rabbitts (Leeds Institute of Molecular Medicine)
- Andrew Ward (University of Bath)
The meeting will include the 2010 Mendel Lecture to be delivered by Susan Lindquist, MIT Whitehead Institute.
Genetics has become one of the most widely used tools to study a broad range of biological phenomena. Studies in genetics require the presence of variation to compare and contrast the same system in different states opening the way to deciphering broader biological mechanisms. Cancer studies use the same principle of comparing the functioning of perturbed and "normal" tissues. Over the past three decades since the advent of molecular biology, we have learnt a great deal about developmental control and the functioning of normal cells from the study of aberrant cancers.
Our hopes for better cancer treatments are also based on our improved understanding of how malignant transformation and progression might be reverted to normal control.
The confirmed speakers are:
Dr Terry Rabbits, Leeds Institute of Molecular Medicine, UK
Prof Ken Kinzler, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA
Prof Ashok Venkitaraman, Cambridge Cancer Centre, UK
Sir David Lane, A*STAR, Singapore
Dr Andrew Feinberg, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA
Prof Anne Ridley, King's College London, UK
Prof Peter Ratcliffe, Nuffield Dept. of Clinical Medicine, Oxford, UK
Dr Stuart Orkin, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard University, Boston, USA
Fiona Watt, Cancer Research UK, Cambridge, UK
and
Susan Lindquist, Whitehead Institute, MIT, Cambridge, USA
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