Fueling Cancer Progression by the Nervous System (Agenda)

Agenda

(all the presentations are from 11am to 12pm EST)

Introductory talk: Neuroepithelial interactions in cancer
Gustavo Ayala, MD

Peripheral nerve-tumor interactions and cancer progression
Timothy C. Wang, MD and Veena Padmanaban, PhD

Neural mimicry, bioelectrical signaling, and metastatic progression
Leanne Li, MD, PhD and Madeleine Oudin, PhD

Perineural invasion
Moran Amit, MD PhD and Richard J. Wong, MD

Cancer neuroscience of brain metastasis
Frank Winkler, MD, PhD and Humsa Venkatesh, PhD

Psychological stress fueling metastatic colonization
Mikala Egeblad, PhD and Xueyan He, PhD