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

Dear colleagues,

Despite the Omicron situation, we are confident that we will be able to hold the Microsymposium as an in-person event, of course in accordance with the legal COVID-19 regulations.

All participants planning to attend in-person will be required to provide documentary proof of full vaccination according to the EU regulations.

We regularly assess the situation with our institute's health and safety officers and discuss further options with them to ensure your safety at the symposium.

Additional safety measures, including Vienna’s amazing testing system "alles gurgelt” (everybody gargles) that offers free PCR testing to all, will be announced closer to the meeting.

We are optimistic that this event will proceed, and hope that you will join us in Vienna!

⇒ 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

14:45  Katharina Sonnen - Signaling dynamics in the control of embryonic development and tissue homeostasis 
15:15  speaker from abstract
15:45  speaker from abstract

16:05   break
16:35   Leonardo Morsut - Learning to Program Tissue Development with Artificial Genetic Circuits
17:05   David Oriola Santandreu
17:35   speaker from abstract

17:55   coffee break

18:25   Naomi Moris - In vitro 3D gastruloid models of mouse and human development
18:45   speaker from abstract
19:05   speaker from abstract

19:30   networking 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   speaker from abstract  
10:20   coffee break

10:50   Cornelia Schwayer - Symmetry breaking in intestinal organoid formation
11:10   speaker from abstract
11:30   Federico Mauri -  Switching to the dark side: role of NR2F2 in regulating tumor malignant progression, stemness and maintenance.

12:00   coffee break

12:30   Mercedes Paredes - Late to the Game: Human Cortical Interneuron Development
13:00   speaker from abstract
13:20   lunch

14:20   poster session 1

16:20   Agnete Kirkeby - Repairing and modelling the human brain with stem cells
16:50   speaker from abstract
17:10   speaker from abstract
17:30   Simona Lodato
18:00   end of talks

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 
10:20   coffee break

10:50   Sven Falk - Molecular control of cellular identity acquisition
11:20   Siddarth Dey - Integrated single-cell sequencing reveals principles of epigenetic regulation of human gastrulation and germ cell development in a 3D gastruloid model
11:50   coffee break

12:20   Moritz Mall - Transcriptional safeguarding mechanisms enable development and prevent disease
12:50   Antoine Zalc - Murine cranial neural crest cells reawaken pluripotency programs 
13:10   speaker from abstract
13:30   lunch

14:30   poster session 2

16:30   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
17:30   closing remarks

17:45   networking

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