Brain Tumor Meeting 2024

We are pleased to announce that the 12^th Brain Tumor Meeting will take place at the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) in Berlin (Germany) in 2024. The Brain Tumor meeting is an open scientific forum organized to foster the development of multi-center, international and inter-disciplinary collaborations that will lead to a better understanding of the etiology, biology, outcomes and prevention of brain tumors. The two-day conference on brain tumor biology and genetics provides an excellent opportunity for clinicians, neuroscientists, neuro-oncologists, Pls, postdocs, PhD students and research technicians to meet, present and discuss their work, build informal networks and set up new collaborations. More than 300 participants and almost 200 poster presentations in 2022 documented the increasing interest in the field. Internationally renowned speakers agreed to present their newest data on these topics. Furthermore, abstracts for oral and poster presentations are invited and the best presentations will be awarded a prize. We expect exciting scientific exchange and invite you to join this meeting.
 

Scientific Program

Thursday, May 23, 2024

14:00 – 14:05	Welcome Address: Gaetano Gargiulo and Rainer Glass
14:05 - 15:25	Session I: Pediatric brain tumors Chair: Gaetano Gargiulo
14:05 – 14:45	Plenary I, Speaker:  Mariella Filbin (Dana-Farber/Boston Children's Cancer and Blood Disorder Center) "Developmental pathways and plasticity of pediatric high-grade glioma"
14:45 – 15:05	Srijita Banerjee,  "Matched primary-relapse pedHGG patient-derived xenograft models to identify therapy resistance profiles"
15:05 - 15:25	Lola Boutin,  "Gamma Delta T cell recognition and activation potential in Medulloblastoma"
15:25 – 16:10	Poster Session and Coffee Break
16:10 – 17:40	Session II: Vascular biology in the CNS and brain tumors Chair: Rainer Glass
16:10 – 16:50	Plenary II, Speaker:   Britta Engelhardt (Theodor Kocher Institut) "The role of the brain barriers in maintaining CNS homeostasis and immune privilege"
16:50 - 17:30	Plenary III, Speaker:  Yi Fan (University of Pennsylvania) "Vascular regulation of glioma immunity"
17:30 – 18:15	Coffee Break and Poster Session
18:15 – 19:35	Session III: Brain tumor cell and molecular biology Chair: Charlotte Flüh
18:15 – 18:55	Plenary IV, Speaker:  Gaetano Gargiulo (Max Delbrück Center, Berlin) "Cell states and fate transitions in glioblastoma revealed by synthetic genetic tracing"
18:55 – 19:15	Guillaume Bourmeau,        "Tracking glioblastoma cell plasticity identifies GB-Hybrid, a therapy resistant cell state dependent on nuclear import"
19:15 – 19:35	Roland Friedel "Regulation of membrane tension by Plexin receptors facilitates diffuse invasion of GBM"
20:00 – 23:00	Reception at the Stadtgut Buch Barn
20:15 – 20:45	Short pitches from poster presenters, travel grant holders and industry partners.
21:00 – 21:30	Short talks on selected topics

Friday, May 24, 2024

9:00 - 10:20	Session IV Brain tumor microenvironment and metabolism Chair:  Christoph Harms
9:00 - 9:40	Plenary IV Speaker:  Saverio Tardito (Cancer Research UK Scotland Institute) "Steroids-dependent metabolic rewiring reveals novel therapeutic and imaging approaches for glioblastoma"
9:40 – 10:00	Haris Babačić,  "Longitudinal blood plasma proteomics stratifies glioblastoma patients in two groups that differ in overall survival"
10:00 - 10:20	Krishna Bhat,  "Single Cell Genomics Identifies Anti-Glioma Phagocytic Immunomodulators"
10:20 – 11:00	Poster Session and Coffee Break
11:00 – 12:20	Session V: Macrophage biology in the CNS and brain tumors Chair: Franz Josef Müller
11:00 – 11:40	Plenary V Speaker: Marco Prinz (Freiburg University) "The myeloid side of the brain"
11:40 – 12:20	Plenary VI Speaker:  Kiavash Movahedi (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) "Single-cell mapping and modulation of brain immune ecosystems"
12:20 – 13:30	Lunch and Poster Session
13:30 – 14:10	Session VI Brain Metastasis Chair:  Michela Serresi
13:30 – 13:50	Aylin Möckl,  "Dissecting the role of CSF2Rb-STAT5 signaling in tumor-associated inflammation in brain metastasis"
13:50 – 14:10	Nils R. Hebach,  "The Aging Microenvironment exacerbates Leptomeningeal Metastasis"
14:10 – 14:40	Coffee Break and Poster Session
14:40 – 15:40	Session VII: Cancer Neuroscience Chair:  Pilar Sanchez-Bailon
14:40 – 15:00	Niels Olshausen,  "Spontaneous Cancer Cell Intrinsic Calcium Oscillations drive Brain Metastasis Progression"
15:00 – 15:40	Plenary VIII Speaker:  Varun Venkataramani (Heidelberg University) "Brain-Wide Neural Circuits Of Glioblastoma Drive Tumor Progression"
15:45 – 16:00	Farewell address: G. Gargiulo, R. Glass
16:00	End of BTM2024

Important Dates & Information

January 2024: Registration opens

March 23, 2024: Deadline for abstract submission
March 23, 2024: Deadline for early registration 

March 23, 2024: Deadline for stipend application
May 05, 2024: Deadline for late poster registration

 

Registration fees (taxes included)	Early Bird Rates Until 23/03/2024 - 23h59	Regular Rates Until 23/05/2024 - 23h59
Students	30,00€ *	90,00€**
Researchers/Clinician/Clinician Scientist	70,00€ *	190,00€ **
Exhibitors and Industrials	TBA	TBA
Extended event	60,00€	110,00€

*excluding extended event
**including extended event
 

On-site registration will be available.

On-site Registration / Office Hours	Thursday, May 23, 2024 Friday, May 24, 2024	11:00 - 19:00 08:00 - 16:30
Poster Boards	Height 120 cm Width 100 cm	Wider formats cannot be accepted,  the poster board space is strictly limited.
Talks	Plenary Speakers	30 min. (talk) + 10 min. (disc)
	Oral Presentations	15 min.( talk) + 5 min. (disc)

Language

The official meeting language is English.

Stipends

Travel grants will be awarded to young qualified researchers for participation in the Brain Tumor Meeting 2024.
More details will be announced.

Criteria for application:

• eligible are students, Ph.D. students and young postdocs
• the age limit is 35 years by the time of application
• the applicant participates with an own contribution (poster or oral presentation)
• the applicant is first (co-)author/presenter 

The application must contain the following documents:

• short cover letter with contact data
• 1 page CV
• list of publications (if applicable)
• copy of the abstract
• one short letter of recommendation
• if a preprinted/published version of the work is available, please indicate the link

Hotels in the vicinity of the venue

A25Hotel Berlin-Karow, Hagenstr. 1A, 13125 Berlin-Karow
Tel.: +49 (0) 30 94 20 09 0
http://www.a25hotel-berlin.de
(distance to venue: 4 bus stops)

 

Hotel Alt-Karow, Alt-Karow 2, 13125 Berlin-Karow
Tel.: +49 30 94 20 94 0
http://www.hotel-alt-karow.de/index.php
(distance to venue: 3 bus stops)
 

Pension Boje, Alt-Karow  37, 13125 Berlin Karow

Tel.: +49 30 9430106, mobile: 0179 8787094

www.pension-boje.de

(distance to venue: 3 bus stops)
 

Hotel Stadtgut Berlin-Buch, Alt Buch 45-51, 13125 Berlin-Buch
Tel.: +49 3094796580
http://www.hotel-stadtgut-berlin-buch.de
(distance to venue: 10 min. walk)

 

Pension Il Castello, Karower Str. 1, 13125 Berlin-Buch

Tel.: +49 30 941 37 40

https://il-castello-berlin.de/pension-in-berlin-buch/

(distance to venue: 10 min. walk)

 

Pension am Helios, Rudolf-Breitscheid-Straße 81, 16341 Panketal

Tel.: +49 30 67062685; +49 1590 2426647 (mobile)

http://www.pension-am-helios.de/

(distance to venue: 15 min. walk / via Helios Clinic)

Alternative options in the city center may be found in close proximity of the S-Bahn (S2 line)

Credit Points

The following message concerns medical doctors practicing in Germany only.

Alle Brain Tumor Meetings sind bisher von der Berliner Ärztekammer als Fortbildungsveranstaltung für Mediziner anerkannt worden, so dass Teilnehmer*innen an der Tagung Fortbildungspunkte erhalten.

Auch für das Brain Tumor Meeting 2024 wird die Anerkennung wieder beantragt werden, so dass Teilnehmer*innen an der Tagung Fortbildungspunkte erhalten.

2022 hatte die Ärztekammer insgesamt 12 Punkte (6 Punkte für Donnerstag und 6 Punkte für Freitag) vergeben.

Für die Meldung der Teilnehmer*innen an die Ärztekammer liegen dann Teilnehmerlisten aus, in die sich die an Fortbildungspunkten interessierten Teilnehmer*innen eintragen müssen. Dafür wird ein Barcode-Etikett benötigt. Bitte bringen Sie diese zum Einkleben mit. Die Teilnahme-Bescheinigungen erhalten Sie ebenfalls an der Registrierung.

Contact

Organisational Inquiries:
MDC Events Team
Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association (MDC)
Robert-Rössle-Str. 10
13125 Berlin
Email: events@mdc-berlin.de

Scientific inquiries:
Dr. Gaetano Gargiulo
Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association (MDC)
Robert-Rössle-Str. 10
13125 Berlin
Email: Gaetano.Gargiulo@mdc-berlin.de