09:00

Registration opens

09:30

Opening Remarks

  • Dr. Rob Hynds, Group Leader, GOS Institute of Child Health, University College London
09:35

Healthy and malignant haematopoiesis: dynamic cells in an evolving environment

  • Prof. Cristina Lo Celso, Professor, Imperial College London

Morning Session

Session 1 | Disease Modelling

10:10

Modelling Dravet Syndrome using human iPSC-derived neural circuits

  • Federica Riccio,
10:25

Modelling neurodegeneration in iPSCs: from nanoscale to mesoscale resolution

  • Sonia Gandhi, The Francis Crick Institute
10:50

Flash Poster Presentations | 1/3

  • Kim Sharp,
  • Zuzanna Jablonska,
  • Ana Alonso-Carriazo Fernandez, University College London
11:00

Coffee Break & Poster Viewing

Session 2 | Bioengineering

11:30

Modular hydrogels in organoid-based disease modelling

  • Eileen Gentleman, Professor, King's College London
11:55

Generation of 'universal' low-immunogenic human primary cholangiocyte organoids for treatment of bile duct disorders

  • Sandra Petrus-Reurer,
12:10

Engineering neurogenesis in the postnatal mouse cortex

  • Ana Beltran Arranz,
12:25

Flash Poster Presentation | 2/3

  • Chun Hang Lau,
  • Charlotta Boiers, Lund University
  • Emily Smith, Royal Veterinary College
12:35

Lunch Break

13:00

Breakout Session: Stem Cell Technologies

Afternoon Session

Session 3 | Post-natal Stem Cells

14:00

Cell type-specific vulnerability to traumatic brain injury in the adult hippocampal neural stem cell niche

  • Carlos Fitzsimons, Professor, Fitzsimons lab, Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences, Faculty of Science, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
14:15

Reciprocal stem cell-niche interactions influencing intestinal and microenvironmental plasticity during regeneration

  • Julia Cordero, University of Glasgow
14:40

Animal adult stem cells and regeneration: a worm's view

  • Aziz Aboobaker, University of Oxford
15:05

Flash Poster Presentations | 3/3

  • Sandra Gomez-Lopez, University College London
  • Nicolas Marichal,
  • Owen Jones,
15:15

Coffee Break & Poster Viewing

Session 4 | Pluripotency & Development

15:40

Emerging applications of human pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiovascular models

  • Christine Mummery, Leiden University, The Netherlands
16:25

GATA3 mediates early patterning and lineage specification in human gastrulation

  • Adrienne Sullivan,
16:40

Characterising proliferative zones in human developing hindbrain

  • Paula Alexandre, University College London
17:15

Closing Remarks & Awards: Dr Rob Hynds

  • Best Student/Post-Doc Talk, LSCN-Stem Cell Technologies Conference Award
  • Best Flash Poster Presentation, £150
  • Sponsors Prize Draw, Win a Nespresso Lattissima Touch Coffee Machine for your lab!
17:20

Drinks Reception

Live music from the Crick Orchestra