Tuesday, 16 December 2025
9:00 a.m. – 9:15 a.m. Registration
9:15 a.m. – 9:30 a.m. Opening remarks and welcome note
9:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. Speaker: Herbert Levine
Title: Immune evasion via tumor adaptation
10:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. Speaker: Jeffrey West
Title: Exploiting drug-induced resistance and addiction for adaptive cancer therapy
10:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. Speaker: Mohit Kumar Jolly
Title: Interconnected axes of phenotypic plasticity drive coordinated cellular behaviour and worse clinical outcomes in breast cancer
11:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. - Tea Break
11:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Speaker: Sanjeev Shukla
Title: A Hypoxia-Induced Epigenetic-Splicing Axis Promotes EMT in Breast Cancer
12:00 p.m. – 12:30 p.m. Speaker: Shamik Sen
Title: Mechanoregulation of EMT
12:30 a.m. – 01:00 p.m. Speaker: Ramray Bhat
Title: Interactions between macro- and micro-environmental regulators of phenotypic plasticity in cancer progression
01:00 p.m. – 02:30 p.m. - Lunch Break
02:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. Speaker: Bhavani Shankar
Title: PGE2/TGF-β signaling as a driver of cellular plasticity in the tumor microenvironment
03:00 p.m. – 03:30 p.m. Speaker: Annapoorni Rangarajan
Title: Crosstalk between energy metabolism and tumor cell plasticity
03:30 p.m. – 04:00 p.m. Speaker: Thomas Höfer
Title: Interplay of genetic evolution and cellular plasticity in carcinomas
04:00 p.m. – 04:30 p.m. Speaker: Anushka Dongre
04:30 p.m. – 06:00 p.m. High Tea, Group Photo & Poster Session