Featured Speakers
Sekar Kathiresan, Verve Therapeutics, USA
Keynote Address
Alta Charo, University of Wisconsin, USA
Anne McLaren Memorial Lecture
Brian Wainger, Harvard University, USA
John McNeish Memorial Lecture
Presidential Symposium
Fiona Watt, King's College London, UK
Ernest McCulloch Memorial Lecture
Steven Finkbeiner, Gladstone Institutes, USA
Eric Olson, University of Texas Southwestern, USA
Aviv Regev, Broad Institute, USA
Plenary I: Presidential Symposium
Sponsored by: Fate Therapeutics
- Ernest McCulloch Lecture: Fiona Watt, King's College London, UK
- Steven Finkbeiner, Gladstone Institutes, USA
- Eric Olson, University of Texas Southwestern, USA
- Aviv Regev, Broad Institute, USA
Plenary II: Machine Learning and Computational Approaches
- Trey Ideker, University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, USA
- Ajamete Kaykas, insitro, USA
- Hiroaki Kitano, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
- Emma Lundberg, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Plenary III: Embryogenesis and Development
- Benoit Bruneau, Gladstone Institutes, USA
- Elaine Fuchs, HHMI, Rockefeller University, USA
- Ken Zaret, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, USA
- Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz, University of Cambridge, UK
Plenary IV: Stem Cells and Aging
- Margaret Goodell, Baylor College of Medicine, USA
- Guanghui Liu, Institute of Biophysics, CAS, China
- Emi Nishimura, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Japan
- Beth Stevens, Boston Children's Hospital, USA
Plenary V: Dissecting Organogenesis
- Miki Ebisuya, EMBL Barcelona, Spain
- Madeline Lancaster, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, UK
- Henrik Semb, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Plenary VI: Reprogramming and Regeneration
- Anne McLaren Lecture: Alta Charo, University of Wisconsin USA
- Botond Roska, Friedrich Miescher Institute, Switzerland
- Li Qian, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA
- Shinya Yamanaka, Center for iPS Cell Research & Application, Japan
Plenary VII: Clinical Innovation and Gene Editing
Sponsored by BlueRock Therapeutics
- John McNeish Lecture: Brian Wainger, Harvard University, USA
- Katherine High, Spark Therapeutics, USA
- Michel Sadelain, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, USA
- Keynote Address: Sekar Kathiresan, Verve Therapeutics, USA
Core Themes
Four core themes will be carried throughout the concurrent and poster sessions.
- Tissue Stem Cells and Regeneration: includes stem cells and organ development and maintenance, stem cell niches, and stem cells and cancer
- Understanding and Regulating the Basis of Cellular Identity: includes epigenetics and genetic regulation and mechanisms of reprogramming
- Modeling Development and Disease: includes organoids
- Cellular Therapy and Tissue Engineering: includes road to the clinic
During 20 concurrent sessions, each theme will be explored in different cell and tissue types:
- Cardiac and Muscle
- Early Embryo and Pluripotency
- Endodermal, Epithelial and Mesenchymal
- Hematopoietic and Endothelial
- Neural
Cellular Therapy and Tissue Engineering: Cardiac and Muscle
- Milica Radisic, University of Toronto, Canada
- Philippe Menasché, Hopital Europeen Georges Pompidou and University Paris Descartes, France
Cellular Therapy and Tissue Engineering: Early Development and Pluripotency-- Interspecies chimeras for stem cell research
- Josephine Johnston, Hastings Center, USA
- Martin Pera, The Jackson Labs, USA
- Jun Wu, UT Southwestern Medical Center, USA
Cellular Therapy and Tissue Engineering: Hematopoietic and Endothelial Cells
- Alessandro Aiuti, San Raffaele Hospital, Italy
- Judith Shizuru, Stanford University School of Medicine, USA
Cellular Therapy and Tissue Engineering: Neural
- Megan Munsie, University of Melbourne, Australia
- Malin Parmar, Lund University, Sweden
Cellular Therapy and Tissue Engineering: Pancreas
- Hongkui Deng, Peking University, China
- Speaker TBD
Modeling Development and Disease: Cardiac and Muscle
- Tim Hoey, Tenaya Therapeutics, USA
- Stephanie Protze, McEwen Stem Cell Institute, University Health Network, Canada
Modeling Development and Disease: Gene Editing in Early Embryo and Pluripotent Stem Cells
- Kathy Niakan, The Francis Crick Institute, UK
- Giuseppe Testa, University of Milan, Italy
Modeling Development and Disease: Hematopoietic and Endothelial Cells
- Sten Eirik Jacobsen, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden
- Steven McCarroll, Harvard Medical School and Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, USA
Modeling Development and Disease: Neural
- Haruhisa Inoue, CiRA, Kyoto University, Japan
- Li-Huei Tsai, Massachusetts Institute for Technology, USA
Modeling Development and Disease: Organoids of Endodermal Lineage
- Lijian Hui, Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, China
- Hans Snoeck, Columbia University Medical Center, USA
Tissue Stem Cells and Regeneration: Cancer and Stem Cells
- Robert Blelloch, University of California, San Francisco, USA
- Carla Kim, Boston Children's Hospital, USA
Tissue Stem Cells and Regeneration: Cardiac and Muscle
- Masaki Ieda, University of Tsukuba, Japan
- Kristy Red-Horse, Stanford University, USA
Tissue Stem Cells and Regeneration: Early Development and Pluripotency
- Janet Rossant, Hospital for Sick Children, Canada
- Fuchou Tang, Peking University, China
Tissue Stem Cells and Regeneration: Epithelial Stem Cells
- Eugenia Piddini, University of Bristol, UK
- Speaker TBD
Tissue Stem Cells and Regeneration- Hematopoietic and Endothelial Cells
- Matthew Porteus, Stanford Medical School, USA
- Claudia Waskow, Leibniz Institute on Aging- FLI, Germany
Tissue Stem Cells and Regeneration: Neural
- Thomas Reh, University of Washington, USA
- Alejandro Schinder, Leloir Institute, Argentina
Understanding and Regulating the Basis of Cellular Identity: Cardiac and Muscle
- Richard Harvey, Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute, Australia
- Speaker TBD
Understanding and Regulating the Basis of Cellular Identity: Early Development and Pluripotency
- Joanna Wysocka, Stanford University, USA
- Richard Young, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, USA
Understanding and Regulating the Basis of Cellular Identity: Hematopoietic and Endothelial Cells
- Shangqin Guo, Yale University, USA
- Shahin Rafii, Cornell Medical College, USA
Understanding and Regulating the Basis of Cellular Identity: Neural
- Magdalena Goetz, Helmholtz Zentrum Muenchen, Germany
- Justin Ichida, University of Southern California, USA