POET 2023 AGENDA
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 12th
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| 7:00 AM | Registration |
| 7:15 AM – 8:15 AM | Continental Breakfast |
| 8:15 AM – 9:00 AM | Welcome Address – Drs. Jennifer Chan, Don Morris, Todd Anderson, Steven Yip & Pinaki Bose |
| 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM | SESSION 1: AI in Cancer Session Chair: Dr. Steven Jones, Genome Science Centre, BC Cancer Research Institute, Vancouver, BC |
| 9:00 AM – 9:20 AM | Machine Learning to Accelerate Clinical Inference – Dr. Steven Jones |
| 9:20 AM – 9:30 AM | Q&A |
| 9:35 AM – 9:55 AM | Machine Learning – Driven Computational Pathology for Cancer Biomarker Discovery – Dr. Ali Bashashati, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC |
| 9:55 AM – 10:05 AM | Q&A |
| 10:10 AM – 10:30 AM | Interpreter of Maladies: Applications of Interpretable AI to Precision Medicine – Dr. Anant Madabhushi, Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University, Georgia, USA |
| 10:30 AM – 10:40 AM | Q&A |
| 10:40 AM – 10:55 AM | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 AM – 11:20 AM | Guiding Brain Tumor Surgery Through Rapid Optical Imaging and Artificial Intelligence – Dr. Todd Hollon, University of Michigan, Michigan, USA |
| 11:20 AM – 11:30 AM | Q&A |
| 11:30 AM – 11:50 AM | Extracting the Meaning of Cancer Genes and Mutations from the Biomedical Literature – Dr. Jake Lever, Glasgow University, Scotland, UK |
| 11:50 AM – 12:00 PM | Q&A |
| 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM | Lunch |
| 1:05 PM – 5:00 PM | SESSION 2: Precision Oncology “It’s All in the Data” Clinical Trials & RWE Chair: Dr. Steven Yip, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB |
| 1:05 PM – 1:25 PM | Precision Oncology, Biomarker Testing, and Targeted Therapies in Prostate Cancer – Dr. Steven Yip |
| 1:25 PM – 1:35 PM | Q&A |
| 1:40 PM – 2:00 PM | Precision Therapy for Advanced Prostate Cancer – Dr. Kim Chi, BC Cancer, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC |
| 2:00 PM – 2:10 PM | Q&A |
| 2:15 PM – 2:35 PM | Epigenomic Profiling of Cancer with Liquid Biopsy to Advance Precision Oncology – Dr. Sylvan Baca, Dana Farber, Harvard University, Boston, USA |
| 2:35 PM – 2:45 PM | Q&A |
| 2:45 PM – 3:10 PM | Coffee Break |
| 3:10 PM – 3:30 PM | Targeting NSCLC: The Evolution of Expectations – Dr. Ross Camidge, University of Colorado Cancer Centre, Denver, USA |
| 3:30 PM – 3:40 PM | Q&A |
| 3:45 PM – 4:05 PM | Precision Oncology studies: OPTIMAL (Organoids to Guide Post-Resistance Therapy in Driver MutAted Lung Cancers) and CARMA BROS (Canadian Rare Molecular Alteration Basket-Umbrella Real-World Observational Studies – Dr. Geoff Liu, Princess Margaret / University Health Network, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON |
| 4:05 PM – 4:15 PM | Q&A |
| 4:20 PM – 4:40 PM | Precision and Progress: Innovative Sources and Uses of Real-World Data – Dr. Winson Cheung, University of Calgary, Cancer Control Alberta, Calgary, AB |
| 4:40 PM – 4:50 PM | Q&A |
| 4:55 PM – 5:00 PM | Day 1 Closing Remarks – Drs. Steven Yip & Pinaki Bose |
| 5:00 PM – 5:30 PM | POET Reception Sky Garden, 54th Floor, Bow Tower |
| 5:30 PM – 8:20 PM | POET Welcome Dinner INNOVATION IN PRECISION ONCOLOGY Co-Chairs: Dr. Steven Yip & Dr. Pinaki Bose Mountain View Room, 54th Floor, Bow Tower |
| 5:30 PM – 5:40 PM | Welcome – Dr. Steven Yip & Dr. Pinaki Bose |
| 5:45 PM – 6:25 PM | Showing Data and Explaining Science Visually: The Rules, The Guidelines and The Warning – Mr. Martin Krzywinski, Canada’s Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre, Vancouver, BC |
| 6:25 PM – 6:35 PM | Q&A |
| 6:35 PM – 7:35 PM | Dinner |
| 7:35 PM – 8:05 PM | Translational Opportunities to Expand Precision Medicine: Molecular Residual Disease and Immune Resistance
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Lillian Siu, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Toronto, On |
| 8:05 PM – 8:15 PM | Q&A |
| 8:15 PM – 8:20 PM | Dinner Closing Remarks – Dr. Steven Yip & Dr. Pinaki Bose |
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 13th
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| 8:00 AM – 9:00 AM | Registration & Continental Breakfast |
| 9:00 AM – 9:05 AM | Opening Remarks – Dr. Steven Yip & Dr. Pinaki Bose |
| 9:05 AM – 12:00 PM | SESSION 3: Immuno-Oncology / Cell Therapy Chair: Dr. Doug Mahoney, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB |
| 9:05 AM – 9:25 AM | Precision CAR-T Therapy for GPNMB – Expressing Cancers – Dr. Doug Mahoney |
| 9:30 AM – 9:50 AM | One Cell to Rule Them All? – Dr. Jonathan Bramson, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON |
| 9:55 AM – 10:15 AM | Academic Manufacturing of CAR-T Cells in the Canadian System: The CLIC Experience – Dr. Kevin Hay, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB |
| 10:15 AM – 10:30 AM | Coffee Break |
| 10:35 AM – 10:55 AM | Improving Function and Persistence of CAR-T Cell Therapy – Dr. Shannon Maude, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, USA |
| 11:00 AM – 11:20 AM | Mechanisms of Immune Evasion: Insights from High – Throughout Screening and Sequencing – Dr. Pinaki Bose, POET, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB |
| 11:25 AM – 11:55 AM | Panel Discussion: Drs. Mahoney, Bramson, Hay, Maude, Bose |
| 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM | Lunch |
| 1:00 PM – 3:45 PM | SESSION 4: Microbiome in Precision Oncology Chair: Dr. Kathy McCoy, University of Calgary, International Microbiome Centre, Calgary, AB |
| 1:00 PM – 1:20 PM | Defining Mechanisms Underlying Microbiome Modulation of Cancer Immunotherapies – Dr. Kathy McCoy |
| 1:20 PM – 1:30 PM | Q&A |
| 1:35 PM – 1:55 PM | Dietary Modulation of the Microbiome and Metabolome to Improve Immunotherapy Outcomes – Dr. Jennifer McQuade, MD Anderson Cancer Centre, Texas, USA |
| 1:55 PM – 2:05 PM | Q&A |
| 2:10 PM – 2:30 PM | Gut Microbiome: Second Paradigm Shift in Immuno-Oncology – Dr. Bertrand Routy, Université de Montréal, Montreal, QC |
| 2:30 PM – 2:40 PM | Q&A |
| 2:40 PM – 3:00 PM | Coffee Break |
| 3:05 PM – 3:25 PM | Facts and Hopes for Gut Microbiota Interventions in Cancer Immunotherapy – Dr. Hassane M. Zarour, UPMC Hillman Cancer Center, Pittsburgh USA |
| 3:25 PM – 3:35 PM | Q&A |
| 3:40 PM – 3:45 PM | Day 2 Closing Remarks – POET Chairs, Dr. Steven Yip & Dr. Pinaki Bose |
