08:15

Registration

09:00

Opening remarks

  • Luca Pinton,
09:15

Flagship Lecture: Reprogramming human skeletal muscle (re)generation

  • Francesco Saverio Tedesco, University College London

Stem Cell Biology. Chairs: Sara Rankin & Virginia Turati

10:00

Cancer associated parenchymal cells: a new component of the lung metastatic niche with stem cell features.

  • Luigi Ombrato, The Francis Crick Institute
10:15

Perivascular niche cells sense thrombocytopenia and activate platelet-biased HSCs in an IL-1 dependent manner.

  • Tiago Luis, Imperial College London
10:30

Coffee break

Development and Regeneration - Chairs: Beth Payne & Shilpita Sarcar

11:05

Engineering pancreatic cells: cell fate choices and plasticity.

  • Francesca Spagnoli, King's College London
11:30

Primed Track, high-fidelity lineage tracing in mouse pre-implantation embryos using primed conversion of photoconvertible proteins

  • Periklis Pantazis, Imperial College London
11:45

Functional integration of in vivo glia-derived induced neurons in the postnatal cerebral cortex.

  • Nicolas Marichal, King's College London
12:00

Tracking human haematopoiesis at single cell level

  • Luca Biasco, University College London
12:25

Lunch and Posters Session

Disease Modelling and Tissue Engineering - Chairs: Saverio Tedesco & Luca Pinton

14:00

Epithelial stem cell biology for regenerative therapies

  • Paola Bonfanti, Francis Crick Institute
14:25

Characterising stem cell behaviour in KRas&120 pro-oncogenic fields of the mouse intestine.

  • Ann-Sofie Thorsen, Cambridge Institute
14:40

White matter directs oligodendrocyte-like fate in glioblastoma.

  • Lucy Brooks, University College London
14:55

Exploring and Engineering the Cell-Material Interface

  • Molly Stevens, Imperial College London
15:20

Coffee break

Translational Medicine - Chairs: Dominique Bonnet & Gabor Foldes

15:55

Preclinical imaging of vascular permeability as a novel biomarker in AML

  • Ana Da Silva Gomes, The Francis Crick Institute
16:10

Development of a large pluripotent stem cell derived cardiomyocyte patch.

  • Richard Jabbour, Imperial College London
16:25

Keynote: Niche biology to therapy in the blood.

  • David Scadden, Harvard Stem Cell Institute
17:15

Awards

Best oral and poster presentations
17:30

Closing remarks

  • Constandina Pospori,
17:40

Posters and Networking