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Monday, March 23

Time Session/Lecture info
09:00-09:30
Get-together and light refreshments
 
09:30-09:45
Opening remarks
 
09:30-09:45
Prof. Michal Neeman, Vice President, Weizmann Institute of Science
Prof. Asher Barzilai, MD, Director, Edmond and Lily Safra Children's Hospital
Dr. Ayelet Erez, MD, PhD, Weizmann Institute of Science
Ms. Levia Passwell
09:45-12:50
Morning Session
Chair: Prof. Raanan Berger, MD, PhD (Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Israel) 
09:45-10:30
Prof. Lewis Cantley, PhD , Weill Cornell Medical College and New York-Presbyterian Hospital, USA
PI 3-kinase and cancer metabolism
10:30-11:00
Prof. Eyal Gottlieb, PhD , Beatson Cancer Research Institute, UK
Exploiting liabilities of metabolically-challenged tumors
11:00-11:20
Coffee Break
11:20-11:50
Dr. Yael Mardor, PhD , Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Israel
Delayed contrast MRI for differentiating tumor from treatment effects in brain tumor patients
11:50-12:20
Prof. Batsheva Kerem, PhD , Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
The different layers determining chromosomal instability in cancer
12:20-12:50
Dr. Ido Wolf, MD, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Israel
The hormone klotho: A novel regulator of tumor metabolism
13:00-14:30
Lunch
 
14:30-17:15
Afternoon Session
Chair: Dr. Ido Wolf, MD, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Israel 
14:30-15:15
Prof. David Sabatini, MD, PhD , Whitehead Institute, MIT, Howard Hughes Medical Institute,USA
Systematic approaches to study cancer and metabolism
15:15-15:45
Prof. Eytan Ruppin, MD, PhD , Tel Aviv University, Israel, and University of Maryland, USA
Recent developments in the computational study of cancer metabolism ? a tale of two tales
15:45-16:15
Dr. Tami Geiger, PhD , Tel Aviv University, Israel
Elucidation of metabolic changes in breast cancer, using genome-scale proteomic profiling
16:15-16:45
Coffee Break
16:45-17:15
Dr. Ayelet Erez, MD, PhD, Weizmann Institute of Science
The urea cycle?s moonlighting role in cancer metabolism
17:15-18:30
Roundtable Discussion
Moderators: Prof. Tamar Yablonski-Peretz, MD (Hadassah Medical Center, Israel), and Prof. Benny Geiger, PhD (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel) 
18:30-20:30
Dinner