ITN-CONTRA Kickoff 2018
July 15-20
University Residential Center
Bertinoro (Forlì-Cesena), Italy
Scope
This meeting will set the stage for the series of training events organized by CONTRA (Computational ONcology TRaining Alliance) Innovative Training Network, a joint effort of- KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden (coordinator),
- University of Warsaw, Poland,
- University of Cambridge, UK,
- King's College London-Francis Crick Institute, UK,
- The Institute of Cancer Research, UK,
- Institute of Biomedical Research (IRB), Spain,
- University of Vigo, Spain, and
- ETH Zurich, Switzerland.
The meeting will be divided into three parts:
- CONTRA introductory and lecturing day (arrival Sunday July 15, end Monday July 16 evening, 2018), will be divided between introductory lectures to cancer biology, modeling and basic mathematical tools, as well as CONTRA organizational meetings.
- Workshop (arrival Monday evening July 16, end Thursday July 19 noon, 2018), where internationally recognized, exceptional researchers in the area of tumor evolution will present their work in this area.
- Lecturing days (Thusday July 19 afternoon-Friday July 20 noon, 2018), where invited speakers, but also the CONTRA principal investigators and partners will give lectures, covering their area of expertise relevant for computational oncology and for tumor evolution.
Confirmed workshop speakers
- Christophe Andrieu, University of Bristol, UK
- Valentina Boeva, Institut Cochin, France
- Brian Cleary, MIT / Broad Institute, USA
- Nicholas McGranahan, UCL Cancer Institute, UK
- Carlo Maley, Arizona State University, USA
- Quaid Morris, University of Toronto, Canada
- Rasmus Nielsen, Berkeley UC Research, USA
- Johannes Reiter, Stanford, USA
- Roland Schwarz, MDC Berlin, Germany
- Russell Schwartz, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
- Sohrab Shah, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK), USA
- Eike Staub, Merck, Germany
- Ben Raphael, Princeton University, USA
- Cristian Tomasetti, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, USA
- Jeffrey Townsend, Yale University, USA
- Bartłomiej Wacław, The University of Edinburgh, Scotland
- David Wedge, Oxford Big Data Institute, UK
- Benjamin Werner, The Institute of Cancer Research, UK