Welcome address

09:00-09:05 Weng-Onn Lui, John Paoli, Nicole Fischer, Jürgen Becker, Lisa Villabona & Thibault Kervarrec

Session I: Merkel cell polyomavirus and oncogenesis

Chair: Nicole Fischer (Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany) and Ugo Moens (Tromsø, Norway)

09:05-09:35 Denise Galloway (Seattle, WA, USA)
Does ALTO contribute to MCPyV latency?

09:35-10:05 Etienne Coyaud (Lille, France) 
Exploring the molecular mechanisms of MCC oncogenes through proximal interactomics

10:05-10:35 John Charles Rotondo (Genoa, italy)
Epigenetic dysregulation in MCC: a potential therapeutic target

10:35-10:50  Isaac Brownell (Bethesda, MD, USA)
The paranuclear dot as a regulator of extrinsic apoptosis

10:50-11:20 Coffee break   

11:20-11:35  Amanda Macamo (Maastricht, The Netherlands)
Title TBD

11:35-12:00 Flash poster presentations (2 minutes/presentation)     
Krista Lachance and Rima Kulikauskas (Seattle, WA, USA), Brendan McCann (Glasgow, Scotland, UK), Candice Church (Seattle, WA, USA), Sara Passerini (Rome, Italy), Valeria Antonietta Pietropaolo (Rome, Italy), Xiaohao Wang (Stockholm, Sweden), Büke Celikdemir (Turkey) and Peter Ch’en (Seattle, WA, USA).

12:00-12:45 Poster session

12:45-13:45 Lunch         

Session II: Immunobiology and tumor microenvironment

Chairs: Thibault Kervarrec (Tours, France) and John Paoli (Gothenburg, Sweden)

13:45-14:15 Maximilian Haist (Palo Alto, CA, USA)
MCPyV-linked spatial Immunomodulation of the MCC tumor microenvironment and its impact on patient survival

14:15-14:45 Jaehyuk Choi (Dallas, TX, USA)
Title TBD

14:45-15:15 Göran Jönsson (Lund, Sweden)
Title TBD

15:15-15:45 Coffee break   

15:45-16:00 Tomas Bencomo (Seattle, WA, USA)
Spatial transcriptomics analysis of MCC reveals tumor-intrinsic factors involved in T cell exclusion

16:00-16:15 Paul Harms (Ann Arbor, MI, USA)
The Diagnostic Utility of H3K27Me3 Immunohistochemistry for Merkel Cell Carcinoma

16:15-16:30 Haroldo Rodríguez (Seattle, WA, USA)
Title TBD