09:00

Registration

09:30

Opening Remarks

  • Owen Harrison, PhD student, Thanou Lab, King's College London
09:35

Flagship Lecture | Pancreas Cell Fate Decisions in Development and Disease: New Organoid Models

  • Dr. Rocio Sancho, Group Leader, Sancho Lab, King's College London

Morning Session

Theme 1 | Bioengineering

10:10

Biophysical Parameters of the Microenvironment can Determine Cell Fate in Engineered Tissue Models

  • Prof. Umber Cheema, University College London
10:35

Utilising hiPSCs and Functional Hydrogels to Model Heart Development In Vitro

  • Dominic Scaglioni, PhD student,
10:50

Flash Talks

  • AP. Tiago Fernandes, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa
  • Lorenzo Mattolini, PhD student, Laboratory of Bioengineering and Morphogenesis, KU Leuven
11:00

Coffee Break & Poster Viewing

Theme 2 | Post-Natal Stem Cells

11:30

Cell Fate Transitions; How do Epithelial Tissues Respond to Perturbations?

  • Dr. Maria Alcolea, Wellcome-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute
11:55

Prevalence and Fate of Pro-Oncogenic Clones in the Human Colon

  • Dr. Nefeli Skoufou-Papoutsaki, University of Cambridge
12:10

Flash Talks

  • Dr. Karine Rizzoti, Principal Laboratory Research Scientist, Lovell-Badge, Francis Crick Institute
  • Jessica Orr, PhD student, Lungs for living, UCL
12:20

Lunch Break

12:50

Breakout Session | Stem Cell Technologies

  • Dr Carla Sanjurjo Soriano, Stem Cell Technologies
  • Dr. Hema Pramod,
  • Dr Serena Barral, University College London
  • Dr Lucinda Tullie, PhD Clinical Fellow, Li Lab, The Francis Crick Institute

Afternoon Session

Theme 3 | Pluripotency & Development

13:40

Conserved Roles for the Nucleolus in Early Development and Cell Fate Decisions

  • Dr. Michelle Percharde,
13:55

Engineering Neurogenesis In Vivo via Lineage Reprogramming

  • Prof. Benedikt Berninger, Professor, Engineering neurogenesis, King's College London
14:20

Self-organization of Mammalian Embryos - Building Embryo Models from Multiple Stem Cell Types

  • Prof. Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz, The University of Cambridge & The California Institute of Technology
15:00

Flash Talks

  • Lahiru Chamara Weerasinghe Arachchige, PhD student, Institut de Biologie Valrose
  • Dr. Malgorzata Borkowska,
15:10

Coffee Break & Poster Viewing

Theme 4 | Disease Modelling

15:40

TET2-derived Clonal Haematopoiesis Shapes the Immune System: The Case of the Preleukemic Neutrophil

  • Dr. Hector Huerga Encabo, The Francis Crick Institute
15:55

An Investigation of Dystrophin Mutations Effects on Neurons and Astrocyte Cell Behaviour

  • Dr. Reem Alkharji,
16:10

Regulation of Cell Shape Changes by Mechanical Forces during Cardiac Morphogenesis

  • Dr Julien Vermot, Imperial College London
16:35

Shape Matters: “Engineering” Neuroscience to Learn more about Neurobiology & Neurodegeneration

  • Dr. Andrea Serio, Group Leader, Serio Lab, The Francis Crick Institute
17:00

Flash Talks

  • Dr. Valentina Maria Lionello,
  • Diana Pereira, PhD student,
17:15

Closing Remarks & Awards

  • Dr. Sara Campinoti, Postdoctoral researcher, Liver Regeneration & Tissue Engineering Group, Roger Williams Institute of Hepatology
17:20

Drinks Reception & Live Music from The Crick Orchestra