7th Annual Symposium
The Francis Crick Institute (+ Virtual)
Price for Non-members £ 10
23 Apr 2024
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