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09:00 - 10:30 |
Session 1 - Potency & Plasticity 1
Chair Professor Peter Koopman (The University of Queensland) |
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09:00 - 09:25 |
S01:
Xenogeneic barriers to interspecies chimera formation
Dr Hiro Nakauchi (Stanford University Institute of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine) |
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09:25 - 09:50 |
S02: Cellular potency and plasticity - enhancers regulation to project past and future fates
Professor Josh Brickman (University of Copenhagen)
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09:50 - 10:15 |
S03: Keeping up with the neighbours: how do local cell interactions coordinate differentiation of pluripotent cells?
Anne McLaren Award Lecture -
Professor Sally Lowell (University of Edinburgh)
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10:30 - 11:00 |
Coffee Break |
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11:00 - 13:00 |
Session 2 - Potency & Plasticity 2
Chair- Dr Peter Lwigale
(Rice University)
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11:00 - 11:25 |
S04: Mapping cell fate control mechanisms during state transitions
Professor Kim Jensen (University of Copenhagen)
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11:25 - 11:50 |
S05: Torsion of the heart tube by shortage of progenitor cells: identification of Greb1l as a genetic determinant of criss-cross heart in mice
Dr Sigolène Meilhac (Institut Imagine)
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11:50 - 12:05 |
O01:
Transcriptome lineage maps underlying neuronal plasticity in the Ciona larval brain
Dr Laurence Lemaire (Princeton University) |
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12:05 - 12:20 |
O02:
Illuminating the (uterine) path: from embryo movement to implantation
Professor Ripla Arora (Michigan State University) |
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12:20 - 12:45 |
S06: Building the hypothalamus: from diencephalic progenitors to neurons
Professor Marysia Placzek (University of Sheffield) |
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13:00 - 14:00 |
Buffet Lunch in Foyer and Poster Session 1 |
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14:00 - 15:30 |
Session 3 - Programming and re-programming cell identify 1
Chair- Professor Ann Philpott
(University of Cambridge)
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14:00 - 14:25 |
S07: Dissecting cell identity via network inference and in silico gene perturbation
Dr Samantha Morris (Washington University)
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14:25 - 14:40 |
O03: Developmental cell fate choice employs two distinct cis regulatory strategies
Dr Joaquina Delas (The Francis Crick Institute) |
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14:40 - 14:55 |
O04:
ZIC3 Inhibition of Canonical WNT Signalling Controls Endoderm Formation To Ensure Left Right Heart Development
Professor Ruth Arkell (Australian National University) |
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14:55 - 15:20 |
S08:
Evolving roles of Hox1 proteins in regulating the balance between pluripotency and differentiation
Professor Robb Krumlauf (Stowers Institute for Medical Research |
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15:30 - 16:00 |
Coffee Break |
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16:00 - 18:00 |
Session 4 - Programming and Re-programming Cell Identity 2
Chair- Professor Claudio Stern (University College London)
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16:00 - 16:25 |
S09: Barcode-free predictions of cell lineages from scRNA-seq datasets
Professor David Suter (EPFL) |
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16:25 - 16:50 |
S10: piRNA-directed transposon DNA methylation during mammalian germline development
Professor Dónal O’Carroll (University of Edinburgh) |
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16:50 - 17:05 |
O05: Transcriptional Heterogeneity and Cell Cycle Regulation as Central Determinants of Primitive Endoderm Priming
Ms Marta Perera (University of Copenhagen) |
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17:05 - 17:20 |
O06:
SyNPL: Synthetic Notch pluripotent cell lines to monitor and manipulate cell interactions in vitro and in vivo
Dr Mattias Malaguti (University of Edinburgh) |
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17:20 - 17:45 |
S11: Neuromesodermal progenitor origin of trunk neural crest in vivo
Professor Tatjana Sauka-Spengler (University of Oxford) |
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18:00 Onward |
Free Evening for delegates |
