4th International Conference on Stem Cells

Program

Thursday, September 30

     

7:00 PM

 

Conference Registration

     

8:00 PM

 

Welcome Reception and Dinner

     

Friday, October 1

     

7:30 AM

 

Breakfast

     

8:25 AM

 

Welcome and Opening Remarks

Kursad Turksen

     

SESSION I

 

Chairs: Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz and Jeffrey Dilworth

8:30 AM

1

Building mammalian embryos from stem cells

Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz

9:00 AM

2

Making faces: what neural crest cells teach us about cellular plasticity, gene regulation and human variation

Joanna Wysocka

9:30 AM

3

The molecular and signalling foundation of human naïve pluripotency

Jacob (Yaqub) Hanna

10:00 AM

4

Control of developmental timing in early mammalian embryos

Aydan Karslioglu

10:30 AM

5

Our first choices: decoding cellular signals during fate commitment

Silvia Santos

     

11:00 AM

 

Coffee Break and Poster Viewing

     

SESSION II

 

Chairs: Luiza Ghila and Michelle Percharde

11:30 AM

6

The intersection between chromatin and transposon regulation in early development

Michelle Percharde

12:00 PM

7

Dietary Control of Stem Cells in Physiology and Disease

Omer Yilmaz

12:30 PM

8

Cellular senescence controls muscle stem cell regenerative functions in young and old mice

Pura  Muñoz-Cánoves

1:00 PM

9

Optimization studies to enable a phase 1 clinical trial of iPSC-derived myogenic progenitors for DMD

Rita Perlingeiro

1:30 PM

10

Cell size-dependent G1/S transition controls stem cell size in epidermal and intestinal stem cells

Shicong Xie, Jan Skotheim, Gustavo de Medeiros, Prisca Liberali, and Jan Skotheim

     

1:45 PM

 

Lunch and Informal Discussions

     

7:30 PM

 

Dinner and Informal Discussions

Buses depart from the hotel lobby at 7:30 PM

     

Saturday, October 2

     

7:30 AM

 

Breakfast

     

SESSION III

 

Chairs: Shicong (Mimi) Xie and Joanna Wysocka

8:30 AM

11

Hematopoietic Stem Cells in Stress, Disease and Aging

Emmanuelle Passegue

9:00 AM

12

Search for the self-renewing human hematopoietic stem cell

Hanna Mikkola

9:30 AM

13

Cell Fate Decision in Hematopoiesis and Leukemogenesis

Marjorie Brand

10:00 AM

14

Next generation reprogramming | Developing an iPSC model system for human ageing

Mark Kotter

10:30 AM

15

Single-cell map of human HSC development positions PSC-derived hematopoietic stem/progenitor cells at the AGM emergence stage and reveals their functional immaturity.

Vincenzo Calvanese, Sandra Capellera-Garcia, Feiyang Ma, Simone Liebscher, Elizabeth Ng, Ed Stanley, Andrew Elefanty, Katja Schenke-Layland, and Hanna Mikkola

     

10:45 AM

 

Coffee Break and Poster Viewing

     

SESSION IV

 

Chairs: Radmila Kovac and Aydan Karslioglu

11:15 AM

16

Delivering insights into organ homeostasis and regeneration through in vivo genome-wide screens

Heather Keys and Kristin Knouse

11:45 AM

17

Epigenetic transduction of injury signals allow satellite cells to communicate with the regenerative muscle environment

Kiran Nakka, Xiaohui Zha, and F. Jeffrey Dilworth

12:15 PM

18

Progenitors and stem cells regulate different functional states in human skeletal muscle

April Pyle

12:45 PM

19

A pancreatic islet organoid model derived from human pluripotent stem cells

Maike Sander

1:15 PM

20

NF-kB signaling activation mediated by reactive astrocytes is central to neurotoxicity in Frontotemporal Dementia Type 3

Abinaya Chandrasekaran and Kristine Freude

     

1:30 PM

 

Lunch and Informal Discussions

     

3:00 PM

 

Special Session for Ph.D. Students and Postdocs

     

7:30 PM

 

Dinner and Informal Discussions

Buses depart from the hotel lobby at 7:30 PM

     

Sunday, October 3

     

7:30 AM

 

Breakfast

     

SESSION V

 

Chairs: Vanessa Castelli and Hanna Mikkola

8:30 AM

21

Insights into molecular pathways that impair skeletal muscle stem cell function in Duchenne muscular dystrophy

Frederic Relaix

9:00 AM

22

Manipulating stem cell self-renewal: insights from rare diseases

Suneet Agarwal

9:30 AM

23

The challenge of stable versus adaptive epigenetic identity in self-renewing cells

Michael H Sieweke

10:00 AM

24

Multipotent stromal cells dictate the systemic inflammatory milieu

Fabio Rossi

10:30 AM

25

Extracellular vesicles promote formation of lipid rafts and migration of human microglia through milk fat globule-epidermal growth factor-VIII (MFG-E8) – dependent mechanisms

Ugnė Jonavičė, Diana Romenskaja, Karolina Kriaučiūnaitė, and Augustas Pivoriūnas

     

10:45 AM

 

Coffee Break and Poster Viewing

     

SESSION VI

 

Chairs: Enzo Manchon, Nell Hirt, and Kristin Baldwin

11:15 AM

26

Development of hematopoietic stem cells

David Traver

11:45 AM

27

Identity and function of intestinal stem cells

Ophir Klein

12:15 PM

28

The skin is home to a collection of fibroblastic cell types from various embryonic origins.

Yuval Rinkevich

12:45 PM

29

Compartmentalization and plasticity of stem cells in squamous epithelia

Pantelis Rompolas

1:15 PM 30

Embryo-derived bone marrow-resident macrophages regulate the pool size of definitive HSCs. 

Claudia Waskow

     

1:45 PM

 

Lunch and Informal Discussions

     

3:30 PM

 

City Tour

Buses depart from hotel lobby at 3:30 PM

     

7:30 PM

 

Dinner and Informal Discussions

Please note that buses do not pick-up at the hotel prior to dinner.

Dinner proceeds right after the tour

     

Monday, October 4

     

7:30 AM

 

Breakfast

     

SESSION VII

 

Chairs: Henriette Haukedal, Reem Al-Daccak and Silvia Santos

8:30 AM

31

How to build a brain: lessons from reprogramming and interspecies chimeras

Kristin Baldwin

9:00 AM

32

Blood for life: hematopoietic stem cell waves from development into aging

Camilla Forsberg

9:30 AM

33

Using patient-derived iPSC to demultiplex cell fate confinement

Simona Chera

10:00 AM

34

Epigenetic memory of cellular history

Michael Kyba

10:30 AM

35

In Vivo Satellite Cell Niche Emergence from Human Pluripotent Stem Cells

Michael Hicks and April Pyle

     

10:45 AM

 

Coffee Break and Poster Viewing

     

SESSION VIII

Chairs: Perla Geara, Stamatia Gioftsidi, and Maike Sander

11:15 AM

36

Gene Editing in Human Zygotes

Shoukhrat Mitalipov

11:45 AM

37

A novel cell population for organ repair

Hina W Chaudhry

12:15 PM

38

Challenges of the pluripotent stem cell-based modelling of complex diseases

Agota Apati

12:45 PM

39

Combining gene and cell “off-the-shelf” therapy to treat disease

Andras Nagy

1:15 PM

40

Trophoblast stem cells-derived extracellular vesicles as potential symptom relief therapy for Dystrophic Epidermolysis Bullosa

Nell Hirt, Enzo Manchon, Jean-David  Bouaziz, Nabila  Jabrane-Ferrat, and Reem Al-Daccak

     

1:30 PM

 

Closing Remarks

Kursad Turksen

     

1:35 PM

 

Lunch and Informal Discussions

     

8:00 PM

 

Farewell Dinner

     

Tuesday, October 5

     

8:00 AM

 

Breakfast

     
   

Departure

POSTERS

41

Efficient generation of pluripotent stem cell-derived myogenic progenitor cells and myofibers

Reem Bou Akar, Déborah Aubin, Julien Maruotti, Brigitte Onteniente, Joana De Esteves Lima, and Frédéric Relaix

42

NAD/cADPR/Ca2+/c-Fos axis regulates hematopoietic stem cell dormancy

Liliia Ibneeva, Sumeet Singh, Sema Eski, Anupam Sinha, Ben Wielockx, and Tatyana Grinenko

43

Disease Modeling of Frontotemporal Dementia 3 using iPSC-derived Microglia

Henriette  Haukedal , Blanca Aldana, and Kristine Freude

44

Biological insights into differences between super responders and non-responders following stem cell treatment with micro-fragmented adipose tissue in knee osteoarthritis.

Yasmin Zeinolabediny, Mark Slevin, and Nima Heidari

45

Protective effects of exosomes-derived from human amniotic fluid stem cells intranasally administered in a unilaterally lesioned 6-OHDA mouse model

Vanessa Castelli, Margherita Alfonsetti, Francesco D'Egidio, Annamaria Cimini, and Michele d'Angelo

46

Trophoblast progenitors for elucidating vascular dysfunction and regeneration

Sangeetha Vadakke-Madathil, Bingyan Wang, Fumiko Dekio, Rachel Brody, and Hina Chaudhry

47

Ontogenetic and functional heterogeneity of tissue resident macrophages

Stephan Culemann, Gülce Percin, and Claudia Waskow

48

Hypoxia induces a transcriptional early primitive streak signature in pluripotent cells enhancing spontaneous elongation and lineage representation in gastruloids

Aydan Bulut-Karslioglu

49

New molecular and cellular insights into the vascular niche of skeletal muscle satellite cells: role of the sympathetic innervation

Alessio Rotini, Juliette Berthier, Sara Salucci, Nathalie Didier, Marianne Gervais-Taurel, Olivier Stettler, Romain  Gherardi, Peggy Lafuste, and Frederic Relaix

50

Characterization of histone modifications associated with MyoD-bound enhancers in regenerating muscle

Radmila Kovac, Tess Branon, Alice Ting, and Jeffrey Dilworth

51

Encapsulation boosts islet-cell signature in differentiating human induced pluripotent stem cells via integrin signalling


Luiza Ghila, Thomas Legøy, Heidrun Vethe, Shadab Abadpour, Hanne Scholz, Joao Paulo, Helge Ræder, and Simona Chera

52

Investigating the biological function of the stress response upon MuSCs quiescence exit

Perla Geara, Léo Machado, Frédéric Relaix, and Philippos Mourikis

53

Dissecting the mechanisms that control skeletal muscle stem cell quiescence

Stamatia Gioftsidi, Philippos  Mourikis, and Frederic Relaix

54

Metabolic changes of muscle stem cells with aging

Xiaotong Hong, Joan Isern, Silvia Campanario Sanz, José Antonio  Enríquez, and Pura Muñoz-Cánoves

55

Spatial communication of muscle stem cells and their microenvironment

Silvia Campanario, Mercedes Grima, Joan Isern, and Pura Muñoz-Cánoves