08:45

Registration opens

09:30

Opening Remarks

  • Dr. Sara Campinoti, Postdoctoral researcher, Liver Regeneration & Tissue Engineering Group, Roger Williams Institute of Hepatology
  • Owen Harrison, PhD student, Thanou Lab, King's College London
09:35

Flagship Lecture | The role of the ECM viscoelasticity in development and disease

  • Dr Alberto Elosequi-Artola, The Francis Crick Institute | King's College London

Session 1 | Tissue Engineering & Regenerative Medicine

10:10

Modelling of human somatic mutations using induced pluripotent stem cells

  • Dr Foad Rouhani, The Francis Crick Institute
10:35

Mesoangioblast and fibroblast-populated decellularised scaffolds generate transplants that integrate in a porcine model of oesophageal defect developing contractile muscle

  • Dr Marco Pellegrini, UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health
10:50

Decoupling oncogenic and regenerative clonal expansion during chronic inflammation

  • Dr Elisa Moutin, University of Cambridge
11:05

Coffee Break & Poster Viewing

Session 2 | Pluripotency & Development

11:35

Body building: decoding the regulatory logic controlling caudal body plan development

  • Dr Vicki Metzis, Imperial College London
12:00

Spatial mechano-transcriptomics of mouse embryogenesis

  • Dr Adrien Hallou, University of Oxford
12:15

Tuning Axial Progenitors to Make the Human Backbone: generating the notochord

  • Dr Tiago Rito, The Francis Crick Institute
12:30

Flash Poster Presentations

  • Katarina Coolens, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, ΔNp63 defines acinar tip cell heterogeneity during pancreatic development
  • Giuseppe Calà, UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, Single-cell guided prenatal derivation of primary fetal epithelial organoids from human amniotic and tracheal fluids
  • Elizabeth Haughey, University College London, Characterisation of a stem cell based primary ciliary dyskinesia disease model
12:40

Sponsored Talk | eTeSR™ - Enhancing Genetic Stability in Human Pluripotent Stem Cells Maintained as Single Cells

  • Dr Adam Hirst, Senior Scientist at STEMCELLTechnologies
12:50

Lunch Break

13:15

'Meet The Editors' Lunchtime Session | Hosted by Stem Cell Technologies

  • Dr Lise Roth, EMBO Molecular Medicine
  • Dr Valeria Caprettini, Nature Biomedical Engineering
  • Dr Christine Weber, Cell Stem Cell

Session 3 | Postnatal Stem Cells

14:10

Why do human haematopoietic stem cells lose function ex vivo?

  • Prof. Elisa Laurenti, Wellcome-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute
14:35

Maintaining quiescence and replication dynamics in haematopoietic stem cells

  • Dr Jennyfer Lynch, King's College London
14:50

Flash Poster Presentations

  • Giada Benedetti, UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, Using multi-regional gastric organoids for disease modelling
  • Ana Garcia-Urbano, King's College London, Modelling inner ear development in human iPSC-derived organoids
  • Abida Islam Pranty, Heinrich Heine University Duesseldorf, Modelling bilirubin-induced neuro-inflammation using hiPSC-derived Cortical Organoid Model of Crigler-Najjar Syndrome
15:00

Coffee Break & Poster Viewing

Session 4 | Disease Modelling & Cancer

15:30

Harnessing epigenetic dysregulation in glioblastoma stem cells for precision medicine

  • Prof. Silvia Marino, Queen Mary University of London
15:55

Hybrid cancer stem cells driving oral cancer metastasis

  • Dr Adrian Biddle, Queen Mary University London
16:20

Formation of pre-leukemic stem cells in a KMT2A::AFF1 murine model requires an embryonic target cell

  • Dr Charlotta Böiers, Lund University
16:35

Keynote Lecture | Epithelial stem cells in combined cell and gene therapy

  • Prof. Michele de Luca, The “Stefano Ferrari” Regenerative Medicine Centre
17:30

Closing Remarks and Awards

  • Owen Harrison, PhD student, Thanou Lab, King's College London
  • Dr. Sara Campinoti, Postdoctoral researcher, Liver Regeneration & Tissue Engineering Group, Roger Williams Institute of Hepatology
17:40

Drinks Reception & Live Music (Crick Orchestra)