Program

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

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RUDOLF JAENISCH, PHD

Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, U.S.

PROGRAM ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Hongkui Deng
Peking University, China

Andrew Elefanty
Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Australia

Gordon Keller
McEwen Centre for Regenerative Medicine Ontario Cancer Institute, Canada

Duanqing Pei
Guangzhou Institutes of Biomedicine and Health, CAS, China

Kathrin Plath
UCLA Medical School, U.S.

Qi Zhou
Zoology Institute, CAS, China

Invited Speakers from Around the Globe

The speakers for this international meeting bring their research and insights from many parts of China and around the world. Get to know them and their work before the meeting begins.

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Guangzhou Program Schedule

Friday, 10 November

Saturday, 11 November

9:00 to 10:15	ORGANOIDS AND DISEASE MODELING Minoru Takasato, RIKEN, Japan REGULATING THE PATTERNING OF MESODERM AND GENERATING KIDNEY ORGANOIDS BY THE DIRECTED DIFFERENTIATION OF HUMAN PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS Talk cancelled Zi-Bing Jin, Wenzhou Medical University, China DISEASED PHOTORECEPTORS INTERROGATED IN RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA PATIENT IPSC-DERIVED 3D RETINAE Bennett Novitch, University of California, Los Angeles, U.S. ORGANOID MODELING OF HUMAN BRAIN DEVELOPMENT & CONGENITAL ZIKA VIRUS SYNDROME
10:15 to 10:45	COFFEE BREAK
10:45 to 12:00	PANEL DISCUSSION:ETHICS IN GENOME ENGINEERING 10:45-11:00: Jeremy Sugarman, Johns Hopkins University, USA ETHICS, POLICIES, AND GENE EDITING 11:00-11:15: Panel Introductions Nissim Benvenisty, Hebrew University, Israel Rudolf Jaenisch, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, U.S. Duanqing Pei, Guangzhou Institute for Biomedicine and Health, China Douglas Sipp, RIKEN, Japan 11:15-12:00: Moderated Discussion
12:00-14:30	LUNCH AND POSTER VIEWING
14:30 to 15:45	NEW TOOLS FOR STEM CELL RESEARCH Fuchou Tang, Peking University, China SINGLE-CELL RNA-SEQ ANALYSIS MAPS DEVELOPMENT OF HUMAN GERMLINE CELLS AND GONADAL NICHE INTERACTIONS Jian Shu, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, US CONTINUOUS MOLECULAR ATLAS OF REPROGRAMMING TO IPSCS BY HIGH-THROUGHPUT SINGLE CELL RNA-SEQ Pentao Liu, Sanger Institute, U.K ESTABLISHMENT OF CULTURES OF MAMMALIAN EXPANDED POTENTIAL STEM CELLS
15:45-16:15	COFFEE BREAK
16:15-17:00	NEW TOOLS FOR STEM CELL RESEARCH Xiaodong Liu, Monash University, Australia CHARACTERISATION OF DISTINCT STATES OF HUMAN NAIVE PLURIPOTENCY GENERATED BY REPROGRAMMING IDENTIFIES KLF4 AS A CONDUIT FOR PRIMED TO NAIVE CONVERSION Talk Cancelled Bin Zhou, Shanghai Institute for Biological Sciences, CAS, China GENERATION OF A DUAL RECOMBINASE SYSTEM FOR TRACING ENDOGENOUS CARDIAC STEM CELLS

Sunday, 12 November

9:15 to 10:30	ROAD TO THE CLINIC Michael Laflamme, University Health Network, Canada HEART REGENERATION WITH HUMAN PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL-DERIVED CARDIOMYOCYTES Jianghong Zhu, Fudan University Huashan Hospital, China CLINICAL AND PRECLINICAL IMAGING REVEALS THE DYNAMIC BEHAVIOR OF THE EXOGENOUS STEM CELLS TRANSPLANTED AND ENDOGENOUS STEM CELLS IN THE NERVOUS SYSTEM Jinghua Piao, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, US THE SELECTIVE DERIVATION OF SOMATOTROPHS FROM HUMAN EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS .
10:30 to 11:00	COFFEE BREAK
11:00 to 12:00	ORGANOIDS AND DISEASE MODELING Carl Ernst, McGill, Canada DISRUPTION OF GRIN2B IMPAIRS NMDA-INDUCED CELL DIFFERENTIATION IN HUMAN NEURONS Ling Li, CHA University, South Korea MODELING OF ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE USING iPSC TECHNOLOGY Wei Li, Institute of Zoology, CAS, China NOVEL STEM CELL TYPES FOR VERSATILE BIOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS
12:00 to 14:30	LUNCH AND POSTER VIEWING
14:30 to 16:00	ROAD TO THE CLINIC Baoyang Hu, Institute of Zoology, CAS, China CLINICAL GRADE hESCS AND DERIVATIVES FOR THERAPY Douglas Sipp, Riken, Japan THE STEM CELL DARK ECONOMY: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE FIELD Zhengqin Yin,Third Military Medical University, China SUBRETINAL TRANSPLANTATION OF HESC-RPE: CLINiCAL TRIAL IN THE TREATMENT OF WET AGE-RELATED MACULAR DEGENERATION (WaMD) – ONE YEAR FOLLOW-UP Closing Remarks

GUANGZHOU CHINA 2017

13:00 to 14:00	OPENING KEYNOTE SESSION KEYNOTE: Rudolf Jaenisch, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, U.S EPIGENETICS, STEM CELLS AND DISEASE RESEARCH
14:00 to 15:15	STEM CELL STATE AND CELL DIFFERENTIATION Nissim Benvenisty, Hebrew University, Israel HUMAN HAPLOID PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS: DERIVATION AND APPLICATION Charles Hernandez, Yale University CHROMATIN-ASSOCIATED FACTORS OF THE DPPA2/4 FAMILY ARE THE KEY REGULATORS OF CELLULAR REPROGRAMMING Jose Polo, Monash University, Australia TRANSIENT AND PERMANENT RECONFIGURATION OF CHROMATIN AND TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR OCCUPANCY DRIVE REPROGRAMMING
15:15 to 15:45	COFFEE BREAK
15:45 to 17:00	STEM CELL STATE AND CELL DIFFERENTIATION Stephanie Protze, McEwen Centre for Regenerative Medicine, Canada TRANSLATING HUMAN HEART DEVELOPMENT TO NOVEL BIOLOGICAL PACEMAKER THERAPIES Y Jin, Institutes of Biological Sciences, CAS, China SOX21 PLAYS A CRITICAL ROLE FOR TELENCEPHALON SPECIFICATION DURING NEURAL DIFFERENTIATION OF hESCS Xiaoyang Zhao, Southern Medical University, China MAMMALIAN GERM CELL REGENERATION