Thursday, 21st March 2019
12.00 registration New cells in old brains 13.45 break |
Session 1 -Pluripotency, Differentiation & Reprogramming 14.15 Thorsten Boroviak (University of Cambridge) How to build a primate: Towards a synthetic model of primate embryogenesis 14.45 Joshua Brickman (University of Copenhagen) 15.15 Pablo Navarro (Institut Pasteur) 15.45 break 16.15 Uli Elling (IMBA) The Genetics of Cell Identity Change 16.45 short talks chosen from abstract 17.25 break |
First Author Session 18.00 Jimena Andersen (Stanford University) Generating multi-region assembloids in vitro to study human development and disease 18.20 Huili Hu (Hubrecht Institute) Long-term expansion of 3D hepatocytes organoids 18.40 Gregor Pilz (University of Zurich) 19.00 Fredrik Salmén (Hubrecht Institute) 19.20 Symposium dinner |
Friday, 22nd March 2019
Session 2 - Germ Lines & Totipotency 09.00 Déborah Bourc'his (Institut Curie) Maternal epigenetic contribution to zygotic genome activation 09.30 Frederic Berger (Gregor Mendel Institute) Reprogramming of H3K27me3 in sperm and its impact after fertilization 10.00 Katsuhiko Hayashi (Kyushu University) A stem cell-based approach to understanding of mammalian oogenesis 10.30 Coffee break (IMP Foyer) 11.00 Juan Vaquerizas (Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine) Transposable element-driven reorganisation of 3D chromatin during early embryonic development 11.30 Eva Hoermanseder (Institute of Epigenetics and Stem Cells) Epigenetic Barriers to Cell Fate Reprogramming 12.00 short talk chosen from abstracts 12.40 Lunch (Cafeteria) |
Session 3 - Organoids 14.00 Madeline Lancaster (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology) Advances in brain organoid technologies and their application to human biology 14.30 Nicolas Rivron (Maastricht University) Blastoids: blastocyst-like structures formed from solely stem cells 15.00 Joo-Hyeon Lee (Cambridge Stem Cell Institute) Stem Cells and Their Dynamic Niche in Lung Repair and Regeneration 15.30 short talk chosen from abstracts 16.10 Poster session 1 18.00 Socializing |
Saturday, 23rd March 2019
Session 4 – Adult Stem Cells
09.00 Marieke Essers (German Cancer Research Center) Homeostatic IFN priming in hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) 09.30 Marlen Knobloch (University of Lausanne) Metabolic regulation of neural stem cells 10.00 Coffee break (IMP Foyer) 10.30 Carolina Florian (Center of Regenerative Medicine in Barcelona) Aging alters the epigenetic asymmetry of HSC division 11.00 Bon-Kyoung Koo (IMBA) Defining the identity and dynamics of adult gastric isthmus stem cells 11.30 short talks chosen from abstract 12.10 Lunch 13.00 Poster session 2
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Session 5 - Regeneration & Ageing
14.30 Elisa Gomez Perdiguero (Institut Pasteur) Ageing and Inflammation drive the specific loss of HSC-independent tissue resident macrophages 15.00 Christian Petersen (Northwestern University) Regenerative growth and scaling in planarians 15.30 Coffee break (IMP Foyer) 16.00 keynote lecture: Janet Rossant (SickKids Research Institute) From totipotency to pluripotency- how the early embryo makes its decisions 17.00 closing remarks |