3rd Annual Symposium
The 3rd London Stem Cell Network Annual Symposium will be held at The Francis Crick Institute on Tuesday 1st December 2020.
Francis Crick Institute
1 Dec 2020
09:00
Registration opens
Tea, coffee, pastries
09:30
Opening Remarks
- Dr. Rob Hynds, Group Leader, GOS Institute of Child Health, University College London
09:35
Flagship Lecture: A multipotent career
- Sara Rankin, Imperial College London
Disease Modelling (Chair: Rob Hynds and Saverio Tedesco)
10:10
Organoid models of neuroendocrine cell growth and tumorigenesis
- Talya Dayton, Hubrecht Institute, Utrecht, The Netherlands
10:25
Modelling monogenic diabetes using human induced pluripotent stem cell-derived organoids
- Ana-Maria Cujba, Kings College London
10:40
Stem cells in the repair of the ear drum
- Abigail Tucker, Kings College London
11:05
Flash Poster Presentations
- Alice Rossi, Kings College London
- Joe Smith, UCL Institute of Ophthalmology
11:10
Coffee Break and Poster Viewing
Stem Cell Biology (Chair: Luca Pinton and Sara Rankin)
11:35
DNGR-1 lineage tracing reveals a population of damage-response neural stem cells in the central nervous system
- Bruno Frederico, The Francis Crick Institute
11:50
The confined environment in microfluidics reveals a hidden role of self-organizing ECM network during hPSC hepatic differentiation
- Federica Michielin, University College London
12:05
Recent insights and trends in pluripotent stem cell research
- Camille Lemey, STEMCELL Technologies
12:20
Flash Poster Presentations
- Ieva Berzanskyte, Kings College London
- Rebecca Lea, The Francis Crick Institute
12:25
Lunch Break
12:50
Lunchtime Quiz
Sponsored by STEMCELL Technologies
13:20
Meet the Editors sponsored by BioTechne, BitBio, Cell and Gene Therapy Catapult and Takara
- Andreia Cunha, Editor in Chief, Communications Medicine
- George Perry, Senior Editor, eLife
- Stephanie Houston, Senior Scientific Editor, Journal of Experimental Medicine
- James Briscoe, Editor-in-Chief, Development
- Jonathan Saxe, Senior Scientific Editor, Cell Stem Cell
Development (Chair: Geraldine Jowett and Cristina Lo Celso)
14:00
Cell competition and its role as a mitochondrial purifying selection mechanism during development
- Tristan Rodriguez, Imperial College London
14:25
Extrinsic and intrinsic factors control transcriptional and chromatin remodelling underlying astrocyte maturation
- Michael Lattke, The Francis Crick Institute
14:40
Building muscle: Role of muscle precursor cell diversity in early zebrafish muscle growth and development
- Tapan Pipalia, Kings College London
14:55
Balancing cell fate, tissue shape and embryo size: insights from 3D stem cell cultures
- Marta Shahbazi, University of Cambridge
15:20
Flash Poster Presentations
- Ioanna Kourouzidou, University College London
- Dr. Sara Campinoti, Postdoctoral researcher, Liver Regeneration & Tissue Engineering Group, Roger Williams Institute of Hepatology
15:25
Coffee Break and Poster Viewing
Translational Medicine (Chair: Silvia Ferreira and Davide Danovi)
15:50
The London Project to Cure Blindness at 10 years, have we found a cure?
- Pete Coffey, University College London
16:15
Engineering stem cell fate determinants for myogenic cell therapies
- Sungwoo Choi, The Francis Crick Institute & University College London
16:30
Keynote Lecture: How mutant stem cells take over normal tissues
- Phil Jones, University of Cambridge
17:05
Closing Remarks & Awards
- William Grey, LSCN Committee
Sponsors
Sponsors for the 2021 Symposia.
