1st Annual Symposium
The 2018 London Stem Cell Network Symposium is jointly organised by the Stem Cell communities and networks of the Francis Crick Institute, Imperial College London, King’s College London, University College London and Queen Mary University of London.
Francis Crick Institute
26 Feb 2018
08:30
Registration
09:00
Opening remarks: Launching the London Stem Cell Network
- Dr. William Grey, John Goodman Fellow, Francis Crick Institute
Tissue/Adult stem cells
Chairs: Dominique Bonnet (The Francis Crick Institute) and Ines Sequeira (King’s College London)
09:05
Key note: Homeostasis in Adult Mammalian Epidermis
- Fiona Watt, King’s College London
09:40
Postnatal Cell Dynamics; Finding the path towards Oesophageal Homeostasis
- Jamie McGinn, University of Cambridge
09:55
Hierarchically related lineage-restricted fates of multipotent haematopoietic stem cells
- Joana Carrelha, University of Oxford
10:10
Microenvironmental control of somatic cell plasticity in tissue regeneration
- Simona Parrinello, University College London
10:35
Coffee break
Cancer Stem Cells
Chairs: Cristina Lo Celso (Imperial College London) and Virginia Turati (University College London)
10:50
In vivo small molecule screens identify TLR7 agonists as potential therapeutics targeting HSPC in MDS5q
- Beth Payne, University College London
11:15
H3.3-K27M Expression and Trp53 Loss in Embryonic Neural Stem Cells Induces Gliomagenesis
- Manav Pathania, University College London
11:30
Integrative profiling, xenograft and genomics reveal JMML’s origin
- Kevin Rouault-Pierre, Barts Cancer Institute
11:30
A human IPS model implicates embryonic B-myeloid fate restriction as a developmental susceptibility to ETV6-RUNX1
- Simon Richardson, University College London
12:00
Tracing stem cell architecture in vivo in human tissues and cancer
- Trevor Graham, Queen Mary, University of London
12:35
Lunch and Posters
Bioengineering the stem cell environment
Chairs: Davide Danovi (King’s College London) and Diana Passaro (The Francis Crick Institute)
13:45
Stem cell-derived organoids: disease modelling and regenerative medicine
- Vivian Li, The Francis Crick Institute
14:10
Vascularisation for whole organ tissue engineering
- Alessandro Filippo Pellegata, University College London
14:25
In-Silico control of Wnt/β-catenin pathway in mammalian cells using microfluidics
- Elisa Pedone, University of Bristol
14:50
Unravelling how bi-directional cell-biomaterial interactions direct stem cell fate in 3D
- Eileen Gentleman, King’s College London
Regenerative medicine
Chairs: Molly Stevens (Imperial College London) and Luca Pinton (University College London)
15:15
Mechanisms of lineage specification in human embryos
- Kathy Niakan, The Francis Crick Institute
15:40
Dickkopf-3 binds to CXCR7 inducing vascular progenitor cell migration and degradable graft cellularisation
- Shirin Issa Bhaloo, King’s College London
15:55
Potential of patient-derived ear and fat stem cells for the reconstruction of congenitally malformed ear cartilage
- Eleonora Zucchelli, University College London
16:10
Cell and Gene Therapy for Lung Cancer
- Samuel Janes, University College London
16:35
Coffee break
Concluding remarks
Chair: Sian Harding (Imperial College London)
16:55
Therapeutic Angiogenesis in Ischemic Disease: Cellular and Acellular Options
- Costanza Emanueli, Imperial College and University of Bristol
17:35
Awards
17:40
Closing remarks
Ines Sequeira, King’s College London
17:50