Program Book

MORNING
8.30-10.10 Papers
(Moderators: D. Wilson, H. Grossniklaus)
1836 RES 1
GENE EXPRESSION DIFFERENCES BETWEEN
MONOSOMY 3 AND DISOMY 3 UVEAL MELANOMA
Arun D. Singh, Nakul Singh, Gurkan Bebek, Charis Eng, Raymond Tubbs,
Yogen Saunthararajah, Pierre Triozzi
2242 RES 2
CORRELATION BETWEEN GEP AND OTHER
PROGNOSTIC FACTORS FOR METASTATIC DEATH IN
205 PATIENTS WITH POSTERIOR UVEAL MELANOMA
EVALUATED BY FNAB
Zélia M. Corrêa, James J. Augsburger, J. William Harbour
2227 RES 3
MOLECULAR GENETICS MUTATION PROFILES OF
UVEAL MELANOMA METASTASES ASSOCIATED WITH
SURVIVAL
Colleen M. Cebulla, Benjamin N. Christopher, Vishal Verma, Dominic
Buzzacco, Thomas Olencki, Frederick H. Davidorf, Mohamed H. Abdel-
Rahman
2226 RES 4
NOTCH SIGNALING PROMOTES UVEAL MELANOMA
GROWTH
Charles Eberhart, Katayoon Ebrahimi, Karisa Schreck, Eli Bar, J. William
Harbour James Handa, Shannath Merbs, Laura Asnaghi
1624 RES 5
IN VIVO CONTRAST-ENHANCED HIGH-FREQUENCY
ULTRASONOGRAPHY OF UVEAL MELANOMA
IN ANIMAL MODELS: IMAGING FEATURES AND
HISTOPATHOLOGIC CORRELATIONS
Hans E. Grossniklaus, Qing Zhang, Hua Yang, Shin J. Kang, Yanggan
Wang, Tonya Coulthard
21 RES 6
HISTOPATHOLOGICAL AND DOSIMETRIC FINDINGS
IN A PORCINE MODEL OF OCULAR RADIATION INJURY
FROM IODINE-125 PLAQUE BRACHYTHERAPY
Scott C. N. Oliver, Victor Hsu, Lucy Bollinger, Moyed Miften, Laurie Gaspar,
Philip Boyer
2347 RES 7
USE OF A MICROCATHETER TO OBTAIN BIOPSIES
FROM UVEAL MELANOMA
David J. Wilson, William J. Harbour
RESEARCH DAY
Monday November 14, 2011
15
148 RES 8
EVALUATION OF HISTONE H3K4 METHYLATION BY
IMMUNOHISTO-CHEMISTRY AND RELATIONSHIP TO
AGGRESSIVE UVEAL MELANOMA
L. Schoenfield, M. Turell, P. Carver, R. Tubbs, A. Singh, Y.
Saunthararajah
42 RES 9
ROLE OF THE CHEMOKINE RECEPTOR CXCR4 IN
THE DEVELOPMENT AND PROGRESSION OF UVEAL
MELANOMA
Shahar Frenkel, Ariela Miller, Amnon Peled, Jacob Pe’er
1703 RES 10
EXPRESSION OF MACROPHAGE-ATTRACTION
MOLECULES IN UVEAL MELANOMA: INDUCTION BY
HYPOXIA?
I.H.G. Bronkhorst, M. Versluis, G.P.M. Luyten, P.A. van der Velden, M.J.
Jager
10.10-10.40 BREAK
10.40-11.05
Keynote Lecture: Dr. Emine Kilic
CLINICAL IMPLICATIONS OF GNAQ AND GNA11
MUTATIONS IN UVEAL MELANOMA
11.05-12.00 Papers
(Moderators M. Materin, Z. Correa)
525 RES 11
ONCOGENE MUTATION PROFILING IN OCULAR
MELANOMA
Ivana K. Kim, Laura MacConaill, Emanuele Palescandolo, Shan Lu, Joo-
Eun Lee, Scott Adams, Margaret M. DeAngelis, Paul Van Hummelen,
Anthony Daniels, Levi Garraway, J. William Harbour, Evangelos S.
Gragoudas
1958 RES 12
DETECTION OF GNAQ/GNA11 MUTATIONS IN
CIRCULATING CELL-FREE DNA AS A BIOMARKER OF
UVEAL MELANOMA
Jordan Madic, Bénédicte Trouiller, David Gentien, Maud Milder,
Stéphanie Saada, Franck Assayag, Fariba Nemati, Didier Decaudin,
Laurence Desjardins, Sophie Piperno-Neumann, Olivier Lantz, Marc-
Henri Stern