BTEC 2019 Annual Conference: June 5-7, 2019
Brain Tumor Disparities: From Biology to Social Determinants
Hawthorne, California (near Los Angeles)
Venue: Ayres Hotel Manhattan Beach-Hawthorne: click here for hotel information
NOTE: special hotel rates for BTEC: $139/179: book hotel here! (before May 20)
Registration now available! Early Bird (until April 30): $500. Regular: $550. One day registration only $200.
Abstract deadline extended to March 25, 2019! See instructions under the meeting tabs above.
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AGENDA
Wednesday, June 5
6:00-8:00 pm Reception at the Ayres Hotel
Thursday, June 6
8:00 – 8:30 am Breakfast and badge pick-up at the registration desk
8:30 – 8:40 am Welcome Remarks
8:40 – 9:25 am Presentation: Current evidence linking viral exposures to glioma risk. Kathleen Egan, PhD, Moffitt Cancer Center,Tampa, FL – USA Introduction by Johannes Hainfellner
9:25-9:40 am Discussion
9:40 – 10:25 am Presentation: The etiopathogenesis of diffuse low-grade gliomas: the functional theory. Luc Bauchet, MD, PhD, Montpellier University Hospital, Montpellier – France
Introduction by Judith Schwartzbaum
10:25-10:40 am Discussion
10:40 – 11:00 am Coffee break
11:00 –11:45 pm Keynote lecture: Exhaustion in Glioblastoma: Intricacies of Immune Checkpoints. Reza Mirzaei, PhD, Department of Neuroimmunology, University of Calgary – Canada
Introduction by Michael Scheurer
11:45-12:00pm Discussion
12:00 –1:30 pm Lunch Buffet andBTEC Advisory Board Meeting
1:30 – 2:00pm American Brain Tumor Association, Young Investigator Abstract Winner Lectures
1:30 – 1:45pm Are tumors of the central nervous system in children associated with socioeconomic factors? Findings from a nationwide case-control study in Denmark
Friederike Erdmann, Childhood Cancer Research Group, Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Copenhagen, Denmark
1:45 – 2:00pm Immune factors preceding diagnosis of glioma: a Prostate Lung Colorectal Ovarian Cancer Trial nested case-control study. Ivo S Muskens MD, Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles USA
2:00 – 2:45 pm Presentation: The DNA methylation landscape of glioblastoma disease progression shows extensive heterogeneity in time and space. Adelheid Wöhrer, MD, PhD, University of Vienna, Austria
Introduction by Judith Schwartzbaum
2:45- 3:00 pm Discussion
3:00 – 3:15 pm Coffee Break
3:15 – 4:00pm Keynote lecture:Immunomethylomic profiling of glioma patients at UCSF. Annette Molinaro, MA, PhD and John Wiencke, PhD, University of California at San Francisco, USA
4:00 – 4:15 pm Discussion
4:15 – 5:00 pm Panel discussion: Is glioma caused by “bad luck”? If so, is further research on glioma etiology productive?Moderated by Judith Schwartzbaum, Luc Bauchet and Kathleen Egan.
5:00 – 5:45 pm Abstract presentations
Chairs: Kimberly Johnson and Michael Scheurer
5:00 – 5:15pm Glioma incidence and survival variation by county-level socioeconomic measures. David J. Cote, Channing Division of Network Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, USA
5:15 – 5:30pm Comprehensive review of cranial chordomas using national databases in the United States
John L. Villano, MD, PhD, University of Kentucky, Lexington, USA
5:30 – 5:45pm Incidence and Survival of Pilocytic Astrocytoma in Children in the USA, 2000-2015. Qianxi Feng MPH, Department of Preventative Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA
7:30 pm Conference Dinner: Salt Creek Grille
2015 E. Park Place – El Segundo, CA 90245
Friday, June 7
8:00 – 8:30 am Welcome breakfast
8:30 – 9:15 am Keynote lecture: Epigenetics and understanding the impact of social determinants of health. Daniel Notterman, PhD, Molecular Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, USA
Introduction by Judith Schwartzbaum
9:15 – 9:30 am Discussion
9:30 – 10:15 am Presentation:Socioeconomic disparities in brain tumor risk and survival. Maria Feychting PhD, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
Introduction by Kimberly Johnson
10:15 – 10:30 am Discussion
10:30 – 10:45 am Coffee Break
10:45 am – noon Abstract Presentations
Chairs: Adelheid Wöhrer and Judith Schwartzbaum
10:45 – 11:00 am Socioeconomic Status and Childhood Central Nervous System Tumors in California. Stephen Francis, PhD, UCSF Neuro and Molecular Epidemiology Laboratory, San Francisco, USA
11:00 – 11:15 am Molecular Signatures of Glioma Causation. Elizabeth B. Claus, MD, PhD, Department of Biostatistics, Yale School of Public Health, Yale School of Medicine and Department of Neurosurgery, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, USA
11:15 – 11:30 am Hepatitis in Taiwan and Risk for Pediatric Central Nervous System Tumors. Julia E. Heck, PhD, Department of Epidemiology, Fielding School of Public Health and Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, UCLA, Los Angeles, USA.
11:30 – 11:45 am Recruitment and longitudinal sample collection in an immune profiles study of adult glioma patients. Pavan Shrestha, Department of Neurological Surgery, UCSF, San Francisco, USA
11:45 – noon Applying quantitative immunomethylomics to evaluate peripheral T cell status among glioma patients before and after surgical resection. Helen Hansen PhD, Department of Neurological Surgery, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, USA
Noon – 1:30 pm Lunch
BTEC Business Meeting
1:30-2:15 pm Presentation: Childhood Brain Tumors: Social determinants of disparities in risk and outcome. Michael Scheurer, PhD, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, USA.
2:15-2:45 pm Abstract presentations
Chairs: Johannes Hainfellner and Luc Bauchet
2:15 – 2:30pm Implementation of a targeted next-generation sequencing panel for the diagnosis and precision medicine treatment of adult patients with WHO grade IV diffuse gliomas. Yalan Zhang, MS, Department of Neurological Surgery, UCSF, San Francisco, USA
2:30 – 2:45pm Multiparametric MR-Imaging and machine learning in Glioblastoma patients. Pranathi Chunduru, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, USA