Organoid Models in Development and Disease
A Stem Cell Reports and BaCell 3D ISSCR Digital Webinar
Image: human cerebral organoid from Clarisse Brunet.
Program Description: Discover how organoid models are being used to study human development, infection, tissue dynamics, and cancer across various organ systems. This webinar features up and coming early career scientists who were selected as Short Talk Winners at the 2025 BaCell 3D meeting.
This webinar is in partnership with:
Moderator
Mehmet Girgin, PhD
Institute of Human Biology - Roche, Switzerland
Presenters
Clarisse Brunet, PhD
Institut Curie, UMR144, France
Baffet Lab: Cell Biology of Mammalian Neurogenesis
Talk Title: DECODING THE GLIOGENIC SWITCH: HOW HUMAN BRAIN ORGANOIDS REVEAL THE SECRETS OF GLIAL CELL FATE
Amanzhol Kurmashev
ETH Zürich D-BSSE, Switzerland
Bio Engineering Laboratory of the D-BSSE
Talk Title: PERFUSABLE 3D HUMAN UROTHELIAL MODEL FOR REAL-TIME ANALYSIS OF BACTERIAL INFECTION DYNAMICS AND THERAPEUTIC INTERVENTIONS
Shuibing Chen, PhD
Special presentation on the new ISSCR consortium: Advanced Stem Cell-Based Models for Drug Discovery and Development
Sarah Prallet
Heidelberg University Hospital, Germany
Talk Title: THE INTESTINAL CRYPT IS A POTENTIAL RESERVOIR FOR HEPATITIS E VIRUS INFECTIONS
Robin Dolgos
University Hospital Basel, University of Basel, Switzerland
Translational Genitourinary Cancer Research Lab
Talk Title: SINGLE-CELL ANALYSIS UNCOVERS PRESERVED PROSTATE CANCER LINEAGES AND UNIVERSALLY ALTERED PATHWAYS IN MATRIGEL-FREE PATIENT-DERIVED ORGANOIDS