
ABOUT
SY-Stem - a symposium focusing on the next generation of stem cell researchers – is an annual meeting, located in the beautiful city of Vienna. It is organized jointly by the Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP) and Institute of Molecular Biotechnology (IMBA).
In this two-and-a-half-day event, recognized keynote speakers, as well as aspiring young group leaders will discuss the latest advances in stem cell biology in an informal and collaborative setting. Our goal is to strengthen a cooperative and dynamic spirit in this research area.
The 2022 sessions include the following topics:
Controlling Dynamics & Size Control
Synthetic Biology
Mechanobiology
Metabolism
Chimera
COVID AND ON-SITE SAFETY
All participants planning to attend in-person will be required to provide documentary proof of full vaccination according to the EU regulations.
During our symposium, we ask all participants to wear a mask in closed rooms, especially during the lectures.
In addition to this we would like to encourage all participants from Vienna / Austria, as well as those arriving the day before, to make use of Vienna’s testing system "alles gurgelt” (everybody gargles) that offers free PCR testing to everybody. Further details can be found online: https://allesgurgelt.at/en/wien/
For participants arriving only on the day of the meeting, we offer free antigen self-testing, which can be done at registration.
Please make sure to check your health status before you come. Note that we will refund the registration fees even at short notice if you have to cancel your participation.
Become part of the symposium
⇒ the registration is open, check here.
We especially invite young scientists to participate in this symposium, to connect with and shape the future of the stem cell community in Europe.
As every year, we give PhD students, postdocs and junior PIs the opportunity to present their work with a talk during the symposium.
In addition, all symposium participants are invited to contribute to the conversation by presenting a poster during one of the two poster sessions.
DEADLINES
Abstract submission to be considered for a talk from abstract: February17th2022.
Registration deadline & deadline for poster presenters: March 09th 2022
Stay Updated
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We will regularly update this website with new details on speakers, registration, poster sessions, sponsors and networking opportunities.
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us.
speakers
KEYNOTE LECTURES
Kathrin Plath- UCLA
James Briscoe - Francis Crick Institute
SESSION SPEAKERS
Nina Cabezas-Wallscheid - Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics
Kevin Chalut - University of Cambridge
Siddharth Dey - UC Santa Barbara
Sven Falk - FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
Agnete Kirkeby - University of Copenhagen
Marlen Knobloch - University of Lausanne
Simona Lodato - Humanitas University
Moritz Mall - DKFZ
Federico Mauri - Boehringer-Ingelheim
Naomi Moris - Francis Crick Institute
Leonardo Morsut, University of Southern California
David Oriola Santandreu - EMBL Barcelona
Mercedes Paredes - UCSF
Marta Shahbazi - MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Katharina Sonnen - Hubrecht Institute
Cornelia Schwayer - Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research (FMI)
Antoine Zalc - Cochin Institute
Scientific Organizers
Elly Tanaka (IMP) - Juergen Knoblich (IMBA)
Christa Bücker (Max Perutz Labs) - Sofia Grade (IMBA) - Nicolas Rivron (IMBA) - Noelia Urban (IMBA)
Program 2022
Day 1: Wednesday March 23rd
13:00 welcome & introduction
13:15 keynote lecture 1 - James Briscoe - About Time: The Dynamics of Neural Tube Development
14:15 coffee break & group picture
14:45 Katharina Sonnen - Signaling dynamics in the control of embryonic development and tissue homeostasis
15:15 Diana Pinheiro - Morphogen gradient orchestrates pattern-preserving morphogenesis via motility-driven (un)jamming
15:45 Yasuhiro Takashima - Modeling in vitro embryonic development using naive human pluripotent stem cells
16:05 break
16:35 Leonardo Morsut - Learning to Program Tissue Development with Artificial Genetic Circuits
17:05 David Oriola Santandreu - Towards a mechanochemical basis of symmetry breaking in a mammalian embryo-like system
17:35 Naomi Moris - In vitro 3D gastruloid models of mouse and human development
17:55 break
18:25 Harunobu Kagawa - Four features of human blastoids that model human blastocysts
18:45 Siddarth Dey - Integrated single-cell sequencing reveals principles of epigenetic regulation of human gastrulation and germ cell development in a 3D gastruloid model
19:15 Symposium dinner
Day 2: Thursday March 24th
09:00 Kevin Chalut - Mechanobiology of cell fate transitions
09:30 Marta Shahbazi - Coordinating cell fate decisions and tissue shape changes during mammalian development
10:00 Charisios Tsiairis - Mechanical tissue stretching drives Wnt organizer establishment in Hydra
10:20 coffee break
10:50 Cornelia Schwayer - Symmetry breaking in intestinal organoid formation
11:10 Alexandre Mayran - Cell-specific coordination of epithelial to mesenchymal transition potentiates gastruloids self-organization
11:30 coffee break
12:00 Federico Mauri - Switching to the dark side: role of NR2F2 in regulating tumor malignant progression, stemness and maintenance.
12:30 Mercedes Paredes - Late to the Game: Human Cortical Interneuron Development
13:00 Marcella Birtele - The autism-associated gene SYNGAP1 modulates human cortical neurogenesis
13:20 lunch
14:00 meet-the-editor session
14:20 poster session 1
16:20 Agnete Kirkeby - Repairing and modelling the human brain with stem cells
16:50 Oliver Harschnitz - Human stem cell models to study host-virus interactions in the central nervous system
17:10 Aleksandra Savina - Single-cell transcriptomics reveals age-resistant maintenance of cell identities, stem cell compartments in naked-mole rats
17:30 Simona Lodato - 3D Human Cortical Organoids to investigate early cortical activity and developmental and epileptic encephalopathy
18:00 end of talks – free evening for attendees
Day 3 – Friday March 25th
09:00 Nina Cabezas-Wallscheid - Regulation of dormant hematopoietic stem cells
09:30 Marlen Knobloch - How lipid droplet availability affects neural stem cell behaviour
10:00 Noelia Urban - A full, dynamic view of neural stem cell quiescence
10:20 coffee break
10:50 Sven Falk - Molecular control of cellular identity acquisition
11:20 Merrit Romeike - Stem cell specific interferon stimulated gene expression is regulated by the formative pluripotency network through IRF1
11:40 Tom Wyatt - Patterning from the bottom up: hPSC patterning via spatially controlled stimulation from the basal side
12:00 coffee break
12:30 Moritz Mall - Transcriptional safeguarding mechanisms enable development and prevent disease
13:00 Antoine Zalc - Murine cranial neural crest cells reawaken pluripotency programs
13:20 Irene Talon - Polycomb repressive complex 2 restricts human trophoblast induction
13:40 lunch
14:40 poster session 2
16:10 keynote lecture 2 - Kathrin Plath - Dosage compensation of the X chromosome: An epigenetic phenomenon that teaches us how functional nuclear compartments form and how pluripotent cell states differ
17:10 closing remarks
17:25 networking with snacks & drinks
We would like to thank all companies that have kindly sponsored this symposium.
If you are interested in becoming a sponsor please contact: lea.klement@imba.oeaw.ac.at
Previous Meetings
SY-Stem 2020
Cancelled due to the Coronavirus outbreak