Location & dates
EMBL Heidelberg, Germany
9 - 12 Oct 2014
Deadlines
Registration closed
Abstract submission closed
Final Programme
| Time | Speaker | Title |
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| 14:00 - 16:00 | Registration and welcome coffee and snacks | |
| 16:00 - 16:15 | Welcome | |
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Session 1: Tissue stem cell specification/regulation I Chair: Thomas Graf, Center for Genomic Regulation, Spain |
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| 16:15 - 16:45 | Michaela Frye University of Cambridge, United Kingdom |
Aberrant cytosine-5 RNA methylation alters cell fate decisions |
| 16:45 - 17:00 |
Ulrike Fischer |
Gene amplification during stem cell differentiation |
| 17:00 - 17:15 |
Kai Kretzschmar |
The epidermal stem cell niche |
| 17:15 - 17:30 | Takashi Ishiuchi IGBMC Strassbourg, France |
Novel chromatin pathways to induce totipotency |
| 17:30 - 17:45 | Sonia Alonso-Martin Myology Research Center. U974-INSERM - UPMC-Paris VI - Institut de Myologie, France |
SoxF genes: transcriptional regulators of muscle stem cell renewal by the interaction SoxF-ß-catenin |
| 17:45 - 18:00 | Camilla Forsberg University of California Santa Cruz, United States of America |
Robo4-mediated vascular integrity regulates hematopoietic stem cell trafficking |
| 18:00 - 19:00 | Welcome Drinks | |
| 19:00 - 20:00 | Special Lecture Timm Schroeder ETH Zürich, Switzerland |
Imaging stem cell behavior in real time |
| 20:00 - 21:30 | Dinner | |
| 21:30 - 22:30 | After Dinner Drinks at the Roof Top Lounge | |
| Time | Speaker | Title |
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| 08:30 - 09:00 | Morning Coffee | |
| 09:00 - 10:00 | Special Lecture Magdalena Götz Helmholtz Zentrum München (HMGU), Germany |
Reactivation of neurogenesis after brain injury - from mechanisms to functional integration |
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Session 2: Tissue stem cell specification/regulation II Chair: Sten Eirik Jacobsen, University of Oxford, United Kingdom |
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| 10:00 - 10:30 | Laure Bally-Cuif CNRS - Institut de Neurobiologie Alfred Fessard, France |
Formation and maintenance of adult neural stem cell pools in the zebrafish telencephalon |
| 10:30 - 10:45 | Katja Brueckner University of California San Francisco, United States of America |
An inducible signal from sensory neurons regulates adaptation of the blood cell pool in Drosophila |
| 10:45 - 11:00 | Salvatore Simmini Hubrecht Institute, The Netherlands |
Cell-autonomous transformation of Lgr5-positive intestinal stem cells into gastric stem cells upon loss of transcription factor Cdx2 |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Morning Coffee Break | |
| 11:30 - 12:00 |
Shosei Yoshida |
Mouse spermatogenic stem cells: their in vivo identity and dynamics |
| 12:00 - 12:15 | Rocio Sancho Cancer Research UK, United Kingdom |
Loss of Fbw7 reprograms adult pancreatic ductal cells into alpha-, delta- and beta-cells |
| 12:15 - 12:45 | Donal O’Carroll EMBL Monterotondo, Italy |
Transposon defense and the maintenance of spermatogonial stem cells |
| 12:45 - 13:15 | Florian Greten Georg-Speyer-Haus, Germany |
The role of inflammation in intestinal cancer |
| 13:15 - 13:30 | Abdenour Soufi University of Pennsylvania, United States of America |
Adaptability for Partial Motifs on Nucleosomes as a Primary Determinant of the Pioneer Activity of Reprogramming Factors |
| 13:30 - 14:45 | Lunch | |
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Session 3: Stem cell niche, signaling |
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| 14:45 - 15:15 | Toshio Suda Keio University, Japan |
Hematopoiesis under the stress |
| 15:15 - 15:30 | Saravana Ramasamy MPI for Molecular Biomedicine, Germany |
Notch activity in vascular niche regulates angiogenesis and osteogenesis |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Linheng Li Stowers Institute for Medical Research, United States of America |
Imprinting genes in maintaining hematopoietic stem cells |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Afternoon Coffee Break | |
| 16:30 - 16:45 | Celine Souilhol MRC Centre for Regenerative Medicine, United Kingdom |
Inductive interactions in the AGM region define polarised development of haematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) |
| 16:45 - 17:15 | ||
| 17:15 - 19:15 | Poster Session 1 | |
| 19:15 - 20:45 | Dinner | |
| 20:45 - 22:45 | After Dinner Drinks at the Roof Top Lounge | |
| Time | Speaker | Title |
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| 08:30 - 09:00 | Morning Coffee | |
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Session 4: Stem cell ageing Chair: Claus Nerlov, University of Oxford, United Kingdom |
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| 09:00 - 09:30 | Claus Nerlov University of Oxford, United Kingdom |
Heterogeneity of hematopoietic stem cells: implications for ageing and regeneration |
| 09:30 - 10:00 |
Bill Keyes |
Investigating the role of cellular senescence in cancer and aging |
| 10:00 - 10:15 | Krzysztof Szade Jagiellonian University, Poland |
HO-1 deficiency accelerates aging of hematopoietic stem cells |
| 10:15 - 10:30 | Monika Kowalczyk The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, United States of America |
A cell cycle-dependent interplay between aging and differentiation in HSCs revealed by single-cell RNA-Seq |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Connie Eaves BC Cancer Agency, Canada |
Normal and malignant hematopoietic stem cell heterogeneity |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Coffee Break | |
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Session 5: Cancer Stem Cells Chair: Claus Nerlov, University of Oxford, United Kingdom |
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| 11:30 - 12:00 |
Sten Eirik Jacobsen |
Myelodysplastic syndromes are propagated by rare and distinct cancer stem cells in vivo |
| 12:00 - 12:15 | Haikun Liu German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Germany |
Targeting brain tumor stem cells in vivo |
| 12:15 - 12:45 | Irmela Jeremias Helmholtz Zentrum München, Germany |
A rare fraction of in vivo treatment resistant, dormant stem cells in tumor cells from patients with ALL |
| 12:45 - 14:15 | Lunch | |
| 14:15 - 14:45 | Paresh Vyas University of Oxford, United Kingdom |
Tumour propagating stem cells in Acute Myeloid Leukaemia and the relationship to normal progenitor and precursor populations |
| 14:45 - 15:00 | Oxana Bereshchenko University of Perugia, Italy |
Glucocorticoid Induced Leucine Zipper protein (GILZ) regulates hematopoietic stem cell function, myeloid differentiation and leukemogenesis in a mouse model of CEBPA mutant acute myeloid leukemia |
| 15:00 - 15:15 | Diwakar R Pattabiraman Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, United States of America |
Inducing a mesenchymal-to-epithelial transition to eradicate cancer stem cells in breast cancers |
| 15:15 - 15:45 | Afternoon Coffee Break | |
| 15:45 - 16:15 | Emmanuelle Passegue University of California, San Francisco, United States of America |
Of Old Age and Stress: Aging Hematopoietic Stem Cells |
| 16:15 - 17:15 | Keynote Talk Cedric Blanpain University of Brussels, Belgium |
The cancer cell of origin and tumour |
| 17:15 - 19:15 | Poster Session 2 | |
| 19:15 - 21:30 | Conference Banquet | |
| 21:30 - 01:00 | Conference Party | |
| Time | Speaker | Title |
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| 08:30 - 09:00 | Morning Coffee | |
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Session 6: Tissue repair and disease modeling Chair: Magdalena Götz, Institute for Stem Cell |
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| 09:00 - 09:30 | Michael Brand TU Dresden, Germany |
Regeneration of the adult zebrafish brain: an essential, positive role for inflammation |
| 09:30 - 09:45 | Agnieszka S. Klar Tissue Biology Research Unit, Department of Surgery, University Children’s Hospital Zurich, Switzerland |
Improved engraftment and regeneration of bio-engineered autologous skin grafts prevascularized with adipose-derived stem cells |
| 09:45 - 10:15 | Morning Coffee Break | |
| 10:15 - 10:45 | Graziella Pellegrini University of Modena, Italy |
Hurdles and advantages in an example of regenerative medicine |
| 10:45 - 11:15 |
Katja Simon |
Autophagy suppresses proliferation in HSCs and AML |
| 11:15 - 11:45 | Lisa Ellerby Buck Institute, United States of America |
Modeling Huntington's Disease with Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells |
| 11:45 - 13:15 | Lunch | |
| 13:15 - 13:45 | Guy Sauvageau Institute for Research in Immunology and Cancer (IRIC), Canada |
Human HSC Self-Renewal: From Small Molecule to Clinical Trial |
| 13:45 - 14:00 | Anjali Kusumbe MPI for Molecular Biomedicine, Germany |
Coupling of angiogenesis and osteogenesis by a specific vessel subtype in bone |
| 14:00 - 14:15 | Peter Kurre Oregon Health & Science University, United States of America |
Exosomes contribute to the paracrine regulation of regenerative hematopoietic capacity in the leukemic microenvironment |
| 14:15 - 14:45 |
Andreas Trumpp |
The Microenvironment of cancer stem cells |
| 14:45 - 15:00 | Closing Remarks and End | |
| 15:30 | Bus depart | |