SY-Stem 23. - 25. March 2022, Vienna (Austria)

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.

⇒ 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: February17^th2022.

Registration deadline & deadline for poster presenters: March 09^th 2022

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

Elly Tanaka (IMP) - Juergen Knoblich (IMBA)

Christa Bücker (Max Perutz Labs) - Sofia Grade (IMBA) - Nicolas Rivron (IMBA) - Noelia Urban (IMBA)

Day 1: Wednesday March 23^rd

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 24^th

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 25^th   

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

Cancelled due to the Coronavirus outbreak