Conference Programme
Thursday, 22nd February 2018
12.00 Registration |
Session 1 - Pluripotency, differentiation & reprogramming 13.30 Joerg Betschinger: Lysosomal signalling is essential for embryonic stem cell differentiation and human development 14.00 Yaqub Hanna: Mechanisms for Assembling and Resolving Naïve Pluripotency 14.50 Frank Edenhofer: Exploring novel reprogramming pathways for biomedical applications – Induced neural stem cells ameliorate chronic neuroinflammation
17.05 Grațiela Dobîrtā: Funding possibilities of the European Research Council |
17.45 keynote lecture: Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz: Building the mammalian embryo: in vivo and in vitro 18.45 Dinner |
Session 2 - Adult stem cells & model organisms 09.00 Nadia Mercader Huber: Cardiomyocyte plasticity during heart regeneration in the zebrafish 11.00 Charles Chan: Temporal/Spatial Transcriptomic analysis of Normal and Neoplastic Stem Cell Niches 11.30 Elif Eroglu: Cardiac Regeneration in the newt species Pleurodeles waltl
11.50 Coffee break |
Session 3 - Organoids & bioengineering 12.20 Meritxell Huch: Liver organoids for the study of liver biology and disease 12.50 Agnete Kirkeby: Modelling human rostro-caudal neural patterning with microfluidic gradients 13.20 Lunch 14.30 Anne Grapin-Botton: Pancreas organoids to deconstruct developmental mechanisms 15.00 Giorgia Quadrato: Cell diversity and network dynamics in photosensitive human brain organoids 15.30 Joep Beumer: Enteroendocrine cells switch hormone expression along the crypt-to-villus BMP signaling gradient 15.50 Judith Kraiczy: DNA methylation defines regional identity of human intestinal epithelial organoids and undergoes dynamic changes during development |
16.10 Poster session 1 |
Saturday, 24th February 2018
First author session 09.00 Jérôme Chal: Developing the next generation of hiPSC-based assay platforms: biomedical relevance and applications for striated muscles 10.00 Prayag Murawala: Single-cell transcriptomics uncovers molecular funneling of cell identities during axolotl limb regeneration 10.20 Coffee break 10.50 Marisa Karow: Probing the transcriptional programs underlying human neurogenesis by direct lineage reprogramming
11.10 Sven Falk: Molecular control of lineage diversification in the ventral telencephalon |
Session 4 - Technologies & emerging methods 11.40 Barbara Treutlein: Reconstructing human organ development using single-cell transcriptomics
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Session 5 - Clinical outlooks 14.30 Barbara Ludwig: Current status and future perspectives in diabetes therapy- from cells, pills, and chimera
16.30 Keynote lecture: Marius Wernig: How to Make a Neuron
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17.30 Closing remarks |