4th Annual Symposium
We are delighted to announce our 4th Annual LSCN Symposium. The event will be held on Tuesday 19th October as a hybrid event at the Francis Crick Institute and online.
Francis Crick Institute
Price for Non-members £ 10.00
19 Oct 2021
Programme
Morning session
09:00
Registration opens
Tea, coffee, pastries
09:30
Opening remarks
- Dr. Rob Hynds, Group Leader, GOS Institute of Child Health, University College London
10:30
Dissecting the cross-talk between normal, leukaemia stem cells and the bone marrow microenvironment
- Prof. Dominique Bonnet, Group Leader, Francis Crick Institute
Disease Modelling (Chair: Inês Sequeira, Queen Mary’s University London)
10:30
Mutant clones in normal epithelium outcompete and eliminate emerging tumors
- Bartomeu Colom, Sanger Institute
10:25
A Complex Interplay of Intra- and Extracellular Factors Regulates the Outcome of Foetal- and Adult-Derived MLL-Rearranged Leukaemia
- Maria Jassinskaja, Lund University and The University of York
10:40
Mapping Waddington’s Landscape: Towards a Theory of Cell Fate Decisions
- James Briscoe, The Francis Crick Institute
11:05
Flash Poster Presentations
- Laura Mincarelli, Earlham Insitute
- Esther Palomino Lago, Royal Veterinary College
11:15
Coffee Break and Poster Viewing
Translational Medicine (Chair: Sara Rankin, Imperial College London)
11:35
Using iPSC to develop precision medicines for childhood movement disorders
- Manju Kurian, UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health
12:00
Persistent Hif1a-Sox9 activation poses barriers to epithelial cell plasticity during oesophagealto-skin lineage conversion
- Paula Jimenez Gomez, University of Cambridge
12:15
Stromal contribution to pre-neoplastic lesion formation
- Greta Skrupskelyte, University of Cambridge
12:30
Flash Poster Presentations
- Peter Harley, King’s College London
- Leong Yeh Chwan, University College London
12:40
Lunch Break
13:00
‘Guess the Organoid’ Quiz
By STEMCELL Technologies
13:20
Industry Careers Session sponsored by bit.bio, BioTechne, Jellagen, ProteinTech, Qkine
- Katia Nazmutdinova, Encelo
- Davide Danovi, bit.bio
- Andre da Costa, AstraZeneca
Pluripotency and Development (Chair: Gabor Foldes, Imperial College London)
14:00
Leveraging CRISPRi screens in tissue-derived organoids to study human lung development
- Dawei Sun, University of Cambridge
14:15
hPSC Research: The Right Tools for Each Project
- Camille Lemey, STEMCELL Technologies
14:30
USP7 facilitates endocrine differentiation in the pancreas by stabilising NGN3
- Teodora Manea, Kings College London
14:45
Role of the Haematopoietic Stem Cell Niche in Re-establishing Homeostasis Upon Stress
- Tiago Luis, Imperial College London
15:10
Flash Poster Presentations
- Tommy Mau, Imperial College London
- Ioakeim Ampartzidis, University College London
15:20
Coffee Break and Poster Viewing
Post-natal Stem Cells (Chair: William Grey and Rob Hynds)
15:50
Neural stem cells alter nucleocytoplasmic partitioning and accumulate nuclear polyadenylated transcripts during quiescence
- Rita Sousa-Nunes, Kings College London
16:15
Identification and characterisation of epithelial stem cells in the human postnatal thymus
- Roberta Ragazzini, The Francis Crick Institute
16:30
Keynote Lecture: Organoids to Model Human Diseases
- Hans Clevers, The Hubrecht Institute, The Netherlands
17:15
Closing Remarks & Awards
- William Grey, LSCN Committee
17:20
Drinks reception
With live music from the Crick Orchestra